[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Where to buy power supply upgrade in UK
Heuer Wrote: You can buy the bits to make a proper one from RS Components but I do not know of any 'off the shelf' items that will make any discernable difference from the standard PSU. Full details on how to make your own (with catalogue numbers) is in the Flame Wars - Power Supply upgrade sticky. Yep, I made mine from a RS components PSU (purchased on ebay). It was actaully a rebadged PSU from power-one. I think it cost me £8.00 + pp. The new cost is v.high. I put it all in a nice box from Maplin, but I don't use it. I honstly couldn't tell the difference with or without. Note, I have an external DAC, my findings might have been different if I'd been using the analog outputs. Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26142 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices Transporter?
$1999 doesn't sound too bad, if it sounds good. Anyone know what the new Naim Net system retails for?. I'll bet it's more than this. Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25773 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? 325xi Wrote: Exactly. One gets what he pays for. Not always, unless you like paying for waste heat. A quick calculation shows that an Infrant NV would cost £105 per year less to run in electricty costs than an average PC based server. Based on 50w vs. 200w 24/7/365 at 8p per KWHr. I didn't believe this figure when I first calculated it!. Electricty is bound to be cheaper in the US, but it's still going to be a significant cost. Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? 325xi Wrote: Which comes to about 9 Mb (megabytes) per second, which is - terribly slow for Gigabit device. It's also about what I get for an external USB2 or Firewire disk, so I'm not complaining. Read performance is fine. -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? 325xi Wrote: But wouldn't you expect to get substantially better performance from RAID system comparing to a single disk? Anyways, I think ReadyNAS definitely worth its money, outperforms all its competitors I'm aware of, and overall a good thing to have. I'm just saying that it seems not to perform as good as RAID+Gigabit would allow. I've got the RAID journeld at present (as recommended if it's not on a UPS). That'll have a bearing on write speed. -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? 325xi Wrote: I didn't try myself, but I was concerned with so many claims on the net about bad performance. BTW, try few GB file some time - transfer rate is not linear at all for large files. Reading 4 files totaling 4.94GB on the server and saving them locally took 3 mins 26 seconds. Which I make 187 mbit/sec. Clearly gigabit networking helps here. Copying the same files back to the server took 9 mins 2 seconds or 75 Mbit/sec (my server is 98% full until another disk arrives, this may have affected the speed). Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? CardinalFang Wrote: I guess that would be my first question - can it serve Apple Lossless files, or does that require a PC to be the server? I'm assuming there's no Quicktime codec on the NAS, so if like me you already have your library in Apple Lossless so you can use both iTunes and SlimServer to play music, then you can only use the NAS as disk storage, not a server. The latest version of the infant slimserver plugin (6.2.2) serves Apple lossless (that's how I'm using it). There's one bug with this version: accented characters in artist and track names display incorrectly on the squeezebox. We are promised a fix in the next version. FWIW, I have iTunes pointing at the music folder on the NAS box, rather than locally. Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? aubuti Wrote: I don't use iTunes with slimserver, but according to the wiki slimserver and iTunes do _not_ need to be running on the same machine. Slimserver just needs to be able to read the iTunes library xml file. The wiki entry is clearly still a work in progress, but it does seem clear on this point. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToiTunes Coming at it from a slightly different angle: I couldn't see anywhere in the Infrant web docs what operating system the NAS is running, but I'd certainly expect it's some flavor of Linux. As iTunes is Mac/Windows only, it would have to run on a different machine, and the wiki indicates that's do-able. The way I use it, is to have iTunes pointing at the shared music folder on the NAS. iTunes (running on my Mac) then reads/writes all the music files over the network. The slimserver plugin on the NAS serves the files on the NAS to the SB (and yes it will do Apple Lossless). My Mac doesn't need to be on to use the SB Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? ezkcdude Wrote: Well, just saw this on Engadget this morning. It must be what all the rumors were about: http://tinyurl.com/zk5kv So, what does everyone think about this? Well, as it happens I purchased one of the Infrant servers recently with the idea of using it to run slimserver, so I could turn my computer off. It's a neat bit of kit, the only downside is that the fans too noisy to keep the server in the living room. It's a recommended combination. Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Lite Audio DAC-60 thinking about getting one..
crooner Wrote: It's a great DAC for the price. I recommend it! I have had my lite dac60 for a few weeks now (shipped direct from HK to the UK) and I must say I'm impressed with the build and the sound. With no UK dealership service may be a problem, but then it is half the price of other comprable offerings. It's a little hard to do direct A/B comparisons with a naked SB3 as I found SB's analog volume to be quite low, making it hard to do A/B's with a CD too. As best I could I compared the Dac60 to the SB and must say there was much more atmoshpere with the dac60, and I did (sorry cliche warning) find myself tapping feet and fingers. Do you leave yours on all the time?, if so what's the expected lifetime of the tubes?. Regards, Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20789 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
