Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amazing USB cable breakthrough!!
callesoroe wrote: > "all of us will be listening to our music files using a Mac" > > ? > > Why the f that? Not me I guess that you do not read any of the various high end audio magazines but lately the Mac Mini -> iTunes -> USB cable -> asynchronous USB DAC route appears to be the only acceptable way to listen to digital audio files via a computer. audiomuze wrote: > Why not just ignore the audiofool debate rather than invite it to > manifest again. This sub-forum became a complete waste of time and > remained that way for quite some time. Now some semblance of sanity has > returned let's keep it that way so the hacks and misguided play > elsewhere. Lighten up, I'm just trying to liven things up around here with a little good natured fun. JJZolx wrote: > I met him at RMAF. He was very gracious and the room sounded great. Of course it sounded great, he was using the Piltdown HR USB cables!! Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amazing USB cable breakthrough!!
Julf wrote: > Or haven't met the Piltdown Man. I met him at RMAF. He was very gracious and the room sounded great. JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amazing USB cable breakthrough!!
JJZolx wrote: > Some of you people aren't very bright. Or haven't met the Piltdown Man. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amazing USB cable breakthrough!!
Some of you people aren't very bright. JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amazing USB cable breakthrough!!
Why not just ignore the audiofool debate rather than invite it to manifest again. This sub-forum became a complete waste of time annd remained that way for quite some time. Now some semblance of sanity has returned let's keep it that way so the hacks and misguided play elsewhere. digital groove | 'Vivere DAC MKI' (http://vivereaudio.com/post/2013/08/16/DAC-I-is-Born!.aspx) | 'ATC SCA2' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/electronics/source-pre-amplifiers/sca2/) | 'ATC SCM100ASLT' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/loudspeakers/tower-series/scm100aslt/) *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* - now packaged in most Linux distributions. audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amazing USB cable breakthrough!!
ralphpnj wrote: > I wanted everyone here at the Squeezebox user forums to be the first > know that these brand new and literally amazing USB cables. Now I know > many of you are wondering why Squeezebox users, most of whom stream > their music files to their Squeezebox devices either wirelessly or via > Ethernet, would care about USB cables. Okay let's face it Logitech has > abandoned the Squeezebox product line and sooner or later all of us will > be listening to our music files using a Mac mini connected via a USB > cable to an asynchronous DAC so a high quality USB cable is in your > future. With that in mind let me tell you a little about these amazing > new USB cables! > > As I'm sure all of you know there are many different digital audio file > formats but up until now there has only been one type of USB cable. The > new Piltdown series of USB cables does away with that old, stale > paradigm and introduces three radically different USB cables with each > cable uniquely designed to handle a specific type of digital audio > file. > > At the low end of the Piltdown line is the C cable which is made for use > with all compressed file formats, such as mp3. The C cable's design > works to pre-uncompress the data so that the DAC's work load is deceased > and the DAC is then capable of extracting every last musical detail from > the data stream. Remember I did state that these new cable are an > amazing breakthrough!! > > In the middle of the Piltdown line is the L cable which has been > designed for use with all types of standard resolution lossless digital > audio files. As with the C cables the L cables pre-uncompress the data > but do so at a the much higher rate required for lossless data files. > > And finally for the true connoisseur there is the cost no object > Piltdown HR cable. This special cable has been carefully designed to > handle the demands of high resolution digital audio files. These files > contain massive amounts of data and the HR cable can handle these > advanced data rates with room to spare! > > The pricing for the amazing Piltdown USB cables as not yet been set but > will available shortly. Please watch for the upcoming announcement. "all of us will be listening to our music files using a Mac" ? Why the f that? Not me Callesoroe Living room: Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X digital preamp, Martin Logan Vista speakers, AMPS(Icepower): Acoustic Reality Ear Enigma PLUS(PANELS), Acoustic Reality Ear TWO MKII(Bas) Kitchen: SB-duet, Beresford TC7510 DAC, Prodipe Pro 5 active bi-amp speakers. callesoroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22693 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
