Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
i own this one (trends ta-10) and it is excellent: http://www.trendsaudio.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=37Itemid=28 -- raven22 raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
That Trends Audio TA-10.1 looks sweet. justhide it somewhere, set powerswitch on and the volume to max, then everything can be controlled by the squuezebox. How is the sound from it? -- snow snow's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6710 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
snow;461336 Wrote: That Trends Audio TA-10.1 looks sweet. justhide it somewhere, set powerswitch on and the volume to max, then everything can be controlled by the squuezebox. How is the sound from it? just excellent, i use it with a tube pre-amp but it powers my big floorstanding speakers quite well. Only when i really sit down for a critical listening session i switch to my class A amplifiers (monoblocks). But mainly i listen to the trend (consumes just a few watt compared to about 400 hundred of my class A amps) -- raven22 raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
raven22;461339 Wrote: edit, by the way you can bypass the volumecontrol and make it just a poweramp. How will I do that? -- snow snow's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6710 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
inside there are a few jumpers, it is well documented in the manual -- raven22 raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
Nice, i'll pick one up on monday. -- snow snow's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6710 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A small amp for my livingroom setup.
snow;461346 Wrote: Nice, i'll pick one up on monday. let us know how you like them! -- raven22 raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68259 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 with Beresford Caiman
Ok, Caiman arrived last Tuesday but I won't be able to listen to it 'till tomorrow morning. More news arriving soon. :) -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808 - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66216 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 with Beresford Caiman
Themis;461374 Wrote:
Ok, Caiman arrived last Tuesday but I won't be able to listen to it
'till tomorrow morning.
More news arriving soon. :)
I hope you've got it plugged in and playing in the meantime. It takes a
while to settle down. The first few hours are 'interesting' so don't
judge it straight away.
I've just received my second Caiman and I'm burning it in 24/7 for two
weeks with headphones connected and the fixed outs connected to an amp.
The amp input is selected but the amp is off. With the 'phones in a
cupboard it's not intrusive.
Patience is a virtue. The result is well worth the wait IMHO.
--
technobear
Chris
Transporter Beresford Caiman Croft Syntegra Zu Druid MkIV ('My
Hifi' (http://www.technobear.btinternet.co.uk/hifi/index.htm))
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The next major Audiophile question on here?
I'm the one that gave that report on the touch S/PDIF output. I am a beta tester and have taken one apart and examined it very thoroughly and have a good idea of how the S/PDIF output works. I have done extensive listening between the touch and stock SB3 and a modified SB3. I have not done the modifications to the touch (yet!) The SBs were run into several good DACs, some which had reclocking and some which did not. I'm also a DAC designer and have a pretty good understanding of the technical issues involved, if people are REALLY interested I can cover some of the more detailed technical issues involved. In order to do this I would like real interest in the subject because I would wind up spending many hours writing it all down, its not short or simple. And to make it more interesting there is still a lot we don't know about WHY certain technical aspect causes particular sonic signatures. So there is still a fair amount of it seems to be this but we are not really sure BTW the modifications I was talking about above are replacing the SB crystals with very low jitter oscillators. Even when feeding a DAC using the infamous Sabre DAC chip, which has what is supposedly one of the best ASRC implementations the SB3 with the low jitter oscillators sounds quite a bit better than the stock SB3. The stock touch is in between these two. On a DAC with out any form of reclocking (Crystal receiver driving DAC chips directly) but with very good analog stage, the difference is even bigger. On the subject of S/PDIF in general, I despise it, I consider it one of the worst things ever foisted on the general public. The RIGHT way to use a SB is have low jitter oscillators right next to the DAC chips and feed those to the SB in place of its local crystals, this is what I do in my own personal DAC, it works extremely well. As was mentioned in this thread the best approach would be to build a DAC with the SB interface hard coupled in so no S/PDIF etc. This is definitely doable with the touch, nobody is doing it commercially, but it might just happen in the future. John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67711 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The next major Audiophile question on here?
JohnSwenson wrote: On the subject of S/PDIF in general, I despise it, I consider it one of the worst things ever foisted on the general public. Its not a bad design given its target audience. It was a consumer, mass market interconnect, aimed at the same folks who have never listened to anything other than heavily compressed MP3s over the ear buds included in your PMP. It delivers on that requirement. It was never seen as an audiophile or pro-audio connection. While I don't think its acceptable for critical systems, I disagree that its worthy of hatred. Its perfect for 2 inch diameter full range speaker systems. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 with Beresford Caiman
Altough I agree that some burn-in may be usefull, especially for speakers, I never noticed that burn-in process -strongly -alter the equipment's sonic signature. What I noticed, however, is that certain subtle characteristics of some equipment, only become apparent (can be noticed) after a few days' listening to it. -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808 - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66216 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
