Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ScanSpeak any good?
Kevin Haskins;633574 Wrote: The SS drivers are generally excellent. Just an FYI though. How the final design will sound depends more on the system design work (box, crossover) rather than the quality of the drivers.I tell people this every day and they ignore me. ;-) I can take average drivers and make a loudspeaker that is really very decent. The better drivers will buy you more output, lower distortion and sometimes some unique application flexibility but they will not sound better unless the rest of the design is done right. This is correct a good example is My own Meridian speakers they use the quite mundane classic seas 6,5 pp drivers for bass and midrange, this driver sounds good ,I had it before in for example a pair smaller Thiel speakers I owned in the 90's 1,2 ? or what was it, but it is not super expensive (I also had that driver in a pair of Opus3 speakers). But implementation is miles apart, The Meridian speakers uses 2 of them in 2,5 way active digital crossover design and is also digitally crossed over to my subwofer at 50Hz . My old Thiels was a passive first order filter bass reflex design, this really put high demands on the drivers. same driver is probably a an oversimplification as these can be ordered in different configurations if you are a speaker manufacturer you may want a slightly different fs or some TS parameter different than the off the shelf unit etc. (that is the interesting thing with auditechnology drivers as they offer these flexunits so that even diy people can have a customized application specific drivers) -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD SqueezePad Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87927 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] RC (Inguz etc.)
Curt962;633583 Wrote: I dunno if we're talking about different things or not Phil. Rhapsody is a subscription service streaming 192kbps MP3, and Touch can access it via MySb.com without the PC being on. That's not relevant here though. I had the same problem with the Transporter. Internet streams are not being processed by Inguz at all with the PC running, and even in Proxied streaming mode.nuthin happening. InguzDSP.exe is not invokednothing in the log.txt to suggest Inguz even knows music is playing. What are you doing different?Since 50% or more of my casual listening is done via Rhapsody...I'd like to have my Inguz/AudioLense working for me rather than sitting idle. Right now...Inguz is only processing music taken from the hard drive of the PC. Curt Curt, when I listen to Internet Radio such as BBC iPlayer, Inguzdsp.exe is invoked. The streams are mp3 or aac. This SHOULD be governed by the contents of custom-convert.conf... AND your settings in advanced - filetypes for mp3 and aac. You need to have native streaming disabled - so that mp3 goes via flac/sox for example... I created an mp3 file and an aac file just to test this all. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77084 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Psychoaccoustic models: ref's?
Thanks for the pointer Phil. Looks like a good entrance point to the topic - do you know the book yourself? Comments? As is usual Springer its rather expensive - but the cool thing with academic work is that its usually also freely available (in some form). I had a look at Fastl's webpage which seems promising. Zwicker is no longer alive and I couldn't find a biographical webpage with material? -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87986 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Psychoaccoustic models: ref's?
For free reading, start with Wikipedia, work your way through the references, and start building up a collection of links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics Using Google also helps. ;) -- Soulkeeper -that is not dead which can eternal lie. and with strange aeons even death may die.- touch (sans caps) + duet + boom + radio (portable) / dd-wrt on linksys wrt160n / sbs 7.6 on w7(x86) with avira free Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87986 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Garage Conversion - Sound advice ?
OK i'm going with the 1ft in from the side walls. The room is getting plastered on Tuesday so I take it I'll need to wait a couple of days before drilling the holes for the mounting brackets. Is it best to drill the holes before the wallpaper is on ? The speaker cable is not in yet because the plasterboard has intentionally be left off the stud wall in the storage area side of the wall. So 1) drill the holes 2)Fit the brackets, fit the bracket on the rear on the speaker and hang it. 3) This will give the exact height for the wholes to be drilled for the speaker wire to come through the stud wall ? I'm only ordering the speakers on just should take about a week from Denmark. Managed to get them for £799.00 with the mountain brackets which cost £50.00 Picked the carpet today. This is going to be the AV cabinet. Your thoughts please. http://www.gecko-furniture.co.uk/ProductRanges/Sapphire/sapphire.html -- tank121 tank121's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85319 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is there a way to get PCM out of a SB with 4 channels rather than just stereo
Hi, Just starting to try and understand all the different speaker crossover options. It seems to make sence to me to have something like an inguz plugin that can filter frequencies in the digital domain, split them to hi and lo and left and right and run the pcm to, and out of, a SB, and into a pre/processor on to power amps and drivers. Not knowing much about the subject and what is involved, am I in cloud cookoo land or would something like this be possible...? Much appreciate any comments! Cheers DC -- Deaf Cat Deaf Cat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=515 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88011 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is there a way to get PCM out of a SB with 4 channels rather than just stereo
Split each channel into a separate WAV file. Then use the free 'wav2ac3 encoder' (http://wav2ac3.sourceforge.net) to encode multiple channels to AC3. Then use the techniques in 'this thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19260) to encapsulate them for S/PDIF. (After that I encode to FLAC for tagging.) Stream this audio out the Squeezebox digital out (coax or optical) to a receiver that can decode AC3 (Dolby Digital). You have to make sure that the stream is at 100% volume with no fade in/out and no replay gain. -- Henry66 Henry66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88011 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is there a way to get PCM out of a SB with 4 channels rather than just stereo
A spdif interface can only carry 2ch of pcm audio ( lossy bitstreams is another story ) -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD SqueezePad Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88011 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
