Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
pkfox;347895 Wrote: > Wow, I wasn't aware speakers like that existed, so you're saying you > send a digital stream from the TP to the speakers and the speakers have > built in amps ? Not quite. Speakers with digital inputs plus built-in D/A converters and power amps do exist: Meridian make quite a few models. However, my ATCs have built in amps but take a balanced analogue signal. Quite a lot of studio monitors are like this. Therefore the TP's XLR analogue outputs are connected directly to the speakers (via the aforementioned passive attenuators). -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
cliveb;347673 Wrote: > Well, the picture still goes to the TV :-) > > Since the speakers are directly connected to the TP, the only way to > get a signal to them is via the TP. That was the whole point of buying > the TP in the first place: to use it as a digital preamp. (Discovering > that it sounded better than the SB2 it replaced by an even greater > margin than I anticipated was icing on the cake). Wow, I wasn't aware speakers like that existed, so you're saying you send a digital stream from the TP to the speakers and the speakers have built in amps ? -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson CD's -> EAC/Grip -> ReadyNas NV -> CAT5 -> Sonicwall -> TP -> Meridian 551 -> Monitor Audio Gold -> Me :-) pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
pkfox;347636 Wrote: > Hi all, I'm curious as to what others might be doing with their TP's, I > have a pretty straightforward setup with the analog outputs connected > direct to my Meridian poweramp, does anyone do anything different ? > what are the other sockets used for ? My setup is very straightforward. Analog outputs into my preamp. At one time I had my original Rega Planet's digital out going into the Transporter for use as an outboard DAC. Source switching, though, just wasn't very convenient with the Transporter, and firmware bugs made it unreliable and a PITA to recover from whenever it went into the weeds. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
pkfox;347651 Wrote: > Interesting, what advantage is there pushing the DVD through the TP as > opposed to direct to the TV ? Well, the picture still goes to the TV :-) Since the speakers are directly connected to the TP, the only way to get a signal to them is via the TP. That was the whole point of buying the TP in the first place: to use it as a digital preamp. (Discovering that it sounded better than the SB2 it replaced by an even greater margin than I anticipated was icing on the cake). -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
I have used mine via xlr into ATC SCM50a actives and via rca into a headphone amp simultaneously. Currently just being used as a digital front end into a pair of Meridian DSP 5500's. I did also use a Z-sys RDP-1 digital pre/parametric eq between its SPDIF out and dac and have plans to try to get the TACT room correction system working right when I set up the ATC's again. (I have closeted em) -- Rodney_Gold Sb3/Z-sys RDP1/meridian DSP5500's TP/X-cans v3/Senns 650's TP/TACT 2.0/SCM 50a's TP/Meridian DSP5000's "The nicest thing about smacking your head against the wall is...the feeling you get when you stop" Rodney_Gold's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14618 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
cliveb;347649 Wrote: > My Transporter is directly connected to a pair of ATC SCM100A active > monitors, via 13dB passive attenuators, using the balanaced outputs. > > On the input side, I have a Topfield PVR on the Toslink input and a > Cambridge Audio DVD player on the BNC SPDIF input - the Transporter is > used as a digital preamp. Interesting, what advantage is there pushing the DVD through the TP as opposed to direct to the TV ? -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
pkfox;347636 Wrote: > Hi all, I'm curious as to what others might be doing with their TP's, I > have a pretty straightforward setup with the analog outputs connected > direct to my Meridian poweramp, does anyone do anything different ? > what are the other sockets used for ? My Transporter is directly connected to a pair of ATC SCM100A active monitors, via 13dB passive attenuators, using the balanaced outputs. On the input side, I have a Topfield PVR on the Toslink input and a Cambridge Audio DVD player on the BNC SPDIF input - the Transporter is used as a digital preamp. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter usage
Hi all, I'm curious as to what others might be doing with their TP's, I have a pretty straightforward setup with the analog outputs connected direct to my Meridian poweramp, does anyone do anything different ? what are the other sockets used for ? -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53507 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
