Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Powered Speakers Recommendations
jean2;695771 Wrote: I have been using the old A5 connected to a Touch for more than one year, but I have no experience with new A5+. My old A5 does the auto sleep, after something like 5 min of inactivity, you hear the speaker pop as the amp switches off. From memory, they still consume 1 or 2 W after going in auto-sleep. The annoying thing with the A5 is that the blue led still stay on solid after going in auto-sleep. The A5 has two 3.5mm jack input, I would have preferred the RCA input of the A5+. I find incredible that auto-sleep is no longer listed as a feature of the A5+. Good eye catching that, I would have assumed that they would have carried over this essential function. I would send an e-mail to AudioEngine themselves to verify the availability of that feature. Just to let you know what Audioengine replied about the A5+: Here's some power consumption and sleep function info for the A5+; Idle: 10W Mute: 6W Sleep: 4W The idle mode would be automatic when no music is playing, the lights will remain on and solid and nothing needs to be done to resume audio playback. The mute and sleep mode can be initiated with the remote control and will reduce power consumption even more when not in use, these each have there own way of blinking the indicator light to let you know they are in a deep sleep mode, you would need to use the remote, or the front panel volume control to bring the set out of these deep sleep modes to resume playback. It's perfectly fine however to simply let them Idle when not in use. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54559 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Powered Speakers Recommendations
My requirements for powered speakers for my SBT apart from good SQ are: 1. remote control 2. auto power on/off when (no) sound Audioengine A5 have 2 but not 1 and A5+ have 1 but not 2, am I right, A5 owners? Anybody knows of an alternative? -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54559 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Powered Speakers Recommendations
The speakers are out of reach in the bedroom/kitchen and I keep the volume on 100% on the SBT. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54559 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Powered Speakers Recommendations
Curt962;695761 Wrote: Check the newest model of the AudioEngine A5 + s. The newly updated model has remote. http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Audioengine-5-Plus#features I keep a set of A5's in my traveling system...with the SB Touch as a source, it's a fine little speaker. Lot's of bang for the buck. I know, but they don't have the auto-sleep/wake up feature, am I correct? -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54559 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Powered Speakers Recommendations
Curt962;695764 Wrote: Go the features sheet on the website. Yes they DO have the auto energy save mode...or whatever it's called. I stand corrected. The Sleep feature is controlled from the remote. There MAY be an auto sleep mode also, but I don't see it at glance. Seems like a small matter.You needed a Remote. Use it to put 'em to sleep! :) The website is not clear about the auto feature, that's why I'd prefer some owner confirmed how the sleep mode works. As to the manual sleep on the remote - I don't want to look for a second remote to put the speakers on or off whilst controlling the touch from my android. Or remember to put them off when I finish. The remote is needed for occasional volume adjustment. Seems petty but that's the convenient way I'm used to do it (with my crappy JBL speakers) -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54559 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests
I think this thread should be deleted. The analogy is tasteless and offensive. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93379 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Win 7 Optimisations
soundcheck;686625 Wrote: See. You seem to live not that far away from Meicord. Why don't you stop by and get yourself some lessons in german engineering. These guys are pretty skilled telecommunicaton engineers and willing to support people with limited knowledge around the subject. That's gotta be entertaining. And, you're even able to read the german documents and reviews about the subject. That's gotta be even more entertaining. And one final hint: First think. Then write. ;) Enjoy. I've had a look at the website http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/streaming-accessories/308-meicord-audiophile-ethernet-network-cables.html and read the technical paper http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/siteuploads/meicord.pdf It's a very poor paper. The perfectly valid comparisons of different Ethernet cables and their compliance with Cat5 or Cat6 specs show that these cables might differ in the efficiency of data transmission, have possibly slightly different throughput but that's nothing to do with audio. One of the beauties of Ethernet is it's media independent. It can run on copper wires or optical fibers. Even wireless WiFi is similar to Ethernet. In all cases, the purpose is to transfer data from A to B without a loss. If it's audio data, it doesn't matter if it's converted into sound at A or B, the result is the same, if the same conversion is applied and the data is available. One can only wonder why they even bothered to reference a technical paper dealing with irrelevant measurements. All recommendations for the Meicord cables on the website are based on purely subjective impressions of people who can hear grass grow. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93257 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Win 7 Optimisations
Soundcheck, With all respect, in your last reply you didn't say anything about the influence of the OS on the LMS which is feeding the SBT and the Ethernet cable which connects the 2 devices. That was the original subject of this thread and you expressed some bold statements about it. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93257 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Win 7 Optimisations
soundcheck;686676 Wrote: I didn't notice that you didn't realize what's being done on the OS side. It's pretty much what I do with TT3.0 on the Touch. Getting rid of pretty much everything which has nothing to do with the LMS server path. And then you try to make that task run as smooth as possible. That'll have an impact on the receiving end. At least that's what some of us experience. The gamers are years ahead of optimizing their gaming servers and networks. It's really interesting to see what they've done. (speedguide.net) Cheers Sorry to having to press you here: This thread is about the OS tweaks on the SERVER side - LMS, not the PLAYER - TT3. BTW the gamers are optimizing to increase the speed of the network they need for the large amount of data to transmit. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93257 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Win 7 Optimisations
Soundcheck, you are avoiding the topic of this thread and still haven't given any reasons why server OS and cables between the server and the player would influence the SQ. If, say, a flac file is downloaded from the other end of the world over the Internet directly to the player and then played, it would be preposterous to say that the type of the OS on the remote server and the conditions/type of the cabling, routers, switches etc on the path between the player and the remote server determine the SQ when the file is played. And streaming over TCP is similar to this non real-time downloading a file. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93257 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Quality of digital outs from the Squeezebox
Phil Leigh;616367 Wrote: OK - 79% of the speed of light then... Just for the sake of correct physics - Not electrons travel that fast in the circuit but the propagating ELMG field (signals) which moves them. Electrons in a conductor are actually quite slow. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84903 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
