Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn DS range SBS integration
audiomuze;517745 Wrote: Doubt I'd purchase one though, not at those prices and definitely not without a damned slick user experience. Well the price is the price; Linn long ago gave up on those with reasonable budgets! But the user experience is fine in that I just use iPeng or the SB3 remote. That it is not a SB is invisible, except that it is (very) slightly less stable. If you find iPeng, SBC or whatever acceptable as a control mechanism, you're fine with a DS. Personally I'm happy that they spent their dev money on the product rather than the software; they would never get the latter right, so I'm fine with SBS! -- adamslim You can't have too much music, but I do have too much hifi Rock/Excalibur/Decca, Linn Akurate Skweezy DS, Audion Pre, 6B4G death traps, Lowther monsters Duet, Caiman, Audio Innovations Series 500, Heybrook Sextets Boom x 2, Radio adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75329 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter to headphone amp options
kphinney;517631 Wrote: Good stuff. I'm happy with my 701's and looking to hold them for quite some time. For the k701's the SPL Phonitor is one of the best options, plus it has a balanced input. I actually have had this combo among others until I settled with my Stax 4070 monitors :), the phonitor brings out the bass from those AKG's. If you dont care for the crossfeed the go for the SPL Auditor. -- GuyDebord '*LAST.FM*' (http://www.last.fm/user/bloodyrosa) - SPEAKERS: Kharma CRM 3.2FE - v/dHul Inspiration - PRE: Lyngdorf DPA-1 - Kharma Grand Reference XLR's - AMP: Halcro MC20 - ANALOGUE: Clearaudio Ambient CMB, Satisfy Carbon Lyra Helikon SL, ASR Basis Exclusive phono pre - Acoustic Zen SilverReference II XLRs - DIGITAL: SlimDevices Transporter - Siltech GoldenRidge AES/EBU - Lyngdorf DPA-1 - AC: PS Audio PowerPlantPremier, PS Audio Statement(PPP), ASR MagicCord(ASR), Siltech SPX30 MKII's for Lyngdorf, Halcro Transporter GuyDebord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14587 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75310 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter to headphone amp options
GuyDebord;517932 Wrote: For the k701's the SPL Phonitor is one of the best options, plus it has a balanced input. I actually have had this combo among others until I settled with my Stax 4070 monitors :), the phonitor brings out the bass from those AKG's. If you dont care for the crossfeed the go for the SPL Auditor. The 4070's are nice aren't they! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75310 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Touch versus Transporter - beta testers chime in please
Kevin, I have my power amps located remotely from my processor / DAC, primarily for reasons of heat dissipation and keeping the speaker cables short. This results in signal leads of 4M or so from processor to amps. My system (Krell) is fully balanced throughout which minimises any noise issues on the signal level leads, and I was attracted to the Transporter because of its balanced design - so I could have a system that was balanced from start to finish. I am dissapointed that the Touch does not have balanced outputs, and I am investigating how much of a problem it would be to balance these outputs for longer signal runs. I believe the transporter uses a DAC that has both inverting and non inverting outputs, so it was relatively straightforward job to make the outputs balanced. I have seen passive transformer based balancing / unbalancing approaches, but I wonder if you could expand on your comment It is fairly trivial to design a balanced output from a single-ended output. It is a matter of impedance matching and it is not necessary to have a inverting/non-inverting signal to gain the advantages of balanced circuit design as I am not aware of such an approach. Andy. -- Andy8421 Andy8421's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74715 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Touch versus Transporter - beta testers chime in please
Andy8421;518055 Wrote: Kevin, I have my power amps located remotely from my processor / DAC, primarily for reasons of heat dissipation and keeping the speaker cables short. This results in signal leads of 4M or so from processor to amps. My system (Krell) is fully balanced throughout which minimises any noise issues on the signal level leads, and I was attracted to the Transporter because of its balanced design - so I could have a system that was balanced from start to finish. I am dissapointed that the Touch does not have balanced outputs, and I am investigating how much of a problem it would be to balance these outputs for longer signal runs. I believe the transporter uses a DAC that has both inverting and non inverting outputs, so it was relatively straightforward job to make the outputs balanced. I have seen passive transformer based balancing / unbalancing approaches, but I wonder if you could expand on your comment It is fairly trivial to design a balanced output from a single-ended output. It is a matter of impedance matching and it is not necessary to have a inverting/non-inverting signal to gain the advantages of balanced circuit design as I am not aware of such an approach. Andy. I'm not personally convinced that 4m of good quality screened cable is really long enough to warrant balanced connections (30m - yes), however a chip like the SSM2142 does everything you need - just google balanced line driver -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74715 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
