Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Good upgrade or Not?
What kind of improvement are you looking for? SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102337 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to improve Touch sound?
Dazed and Confused wrote: Just set up Touch for the first time. FLAC files are being fed via a wired connection from a Synology DS212+ NAS, then into amp (analogue) using the supplied leads and thenspeakers. The sound is very digital, ie bright and and I want to know ways of making it less digital. I have read that power supplies can help and also feeding into a stand alone DAC then into the AMP. My solution: http://beeradvocate.com/ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95998 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Replacement power supply for Touch
Of course, you could always get a 2nd touch for the bedroom. :-) -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94161 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] If I got a touch...
bassedolie;672153 Wrote: Hi all, One thing I realised I can do is whilst converting all my music to FLAC is upsample it in SOX from 16/44 to 16/96 (except for the odd hdcd I have I see no reason to use 24/96?). Would this be beneficial for the SB's DAC or should I just leave it in original form. Certainly would use up a fair amount of extra space to upsample it but beyond that it's not really extra hassle as it needs to be converted anyway. Thanks in advance Probably not beneficial with the Touch because it already has a Delta Sigma DAC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation#Digital_to_analog_conversion -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91816 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Is the Touch limiting my sound quality?
+1 to the other comments about iTunes for ripping. - ALAC is a good choice if you're set on using iTunes. - Make sure to enable sound check to add gain tags. Not needed for single album listening, but essential for random playback. - Make sure to enable secure ripping in order to avoid bad rips. I personally stay away from iTunes for music. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91196 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Is the Touch limiting my sound quality?
Most likely you are having issues with volume level calibration. Many devices like the Denon CD player have very loud op-amps. They will sound better because they are louder. The Touch is a well designed neutral DAC without the usual over driving. It's almost impossible to calibrate this with your ears. The human ear is just not designed for calibrating SPL. http://ben.nerp.net/noise/pink-noise-30.flac Write that file as an audio track to play in your CD player. Then use an SPL meter or voltmeter across your speaker terminals. That should tell you how much output difference there is between the Denon and the Touch. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91196 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Speaker/Amp set up for touch
I would go with the A5 speakers. I use the A2 speakers for my desk at work. They're great for small near-field listening, but they have about the same output power as a Boom. Not really good enough to fill a room. If you want something really amazing for a small room you could get some Dynadio BM-5A powered monitors: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/696917-REG/Dynaudio_Acoustics_995001311_PAIR__BM_5A_MKII_7_.html Worth the investment. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91197 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems
Mnyb;625587 Wrote: My Touch says: # uname -a Linux SqueezeboxTouch 2.6.26.8-rt16-332-g5849bfa #1 PREEMPT RT Wed Mar 30 05:50:00 MDT 2011 armv6l GNU/Linux # Base release was Nov 10, 2008. I think the ext4 code that old was not very stable. I guess someone at logitech would have to re-base the kernel to something new in order for ext4 or hfsplus to work. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86990 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems
Mnyb;625061 Wrote: Ext2 and ext3 is suported is ext4 backwards compatible ? You can mount an ext3 formatted drive as ext2 ? If paragon supports ext3 why not use that ? has ext4 such an edge ? We are talking external usb and a not so very fast system anyway, maybe ext3 is good enough. Why does not Mac OS natively support most linux file systems while Mac OS is a *nix system itself ? Yes, ext4 is very much better than ext3. They made some major improvements to the (meta)data layout. MacOS isn't really *NIX itself. It's a layered system of several different APIs (BSD, Cocoa, NeXT), with a Mach kernel. It is POSIX compliant, but so is Windows. I really wish I could read ext[234] on MacOS. It would simplify my external drive access. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86990 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems
andyg;625205 Wrote: On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:47 PM, davidavdavid wrote: At the present, Paragon Software has a driver which ostensibly can be integrated into the embedded Linux running on the Touch and provide HFS+ (Apple Macintosh) and ext4 (Linux). These two filesystems support file volumes up to 16TB which is good to know as hard drive capacities grow. For ext4 we would just use whatever driver is in the kernel, but we have no plans to update the kernel at this time. HFS+, which appears to need a commercial ($$$) driver, isn't going to happen. I would recommend ext3 for best performance, or FAT32 if you need maximum compatibility. Both ext4 and hfsplus modules have been in the kernel tree for a while (2+ years). It's too bad that no kernel updates will be made to the Touch. What kernel is the touch running? -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86990 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems
Are you talking about using a USB device on the touch's mini server? ext4 would be a great choice for this. I'm not sure if it's supported or not. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86990 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and Nordost Sort cones
Sounds great, they're made of evaporated unicorn pee. This stuff is snake oil. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85152 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] ALAC native support on Touch
MikeSB;602873 Wrote: I have seen some discussion on this elsewhere but I'm not sure if I have seen a definitive answer. I understand that ALAC is supported natively on the Touch. At least if I connect a USB drive which contains some ALAC files to the Touch, the SB server on the Touch plays them. However when I play an ALAC using the SB sever on my Mac Mini the file seems to get transcoded to FLAC. If I go to More info for the track it says something like Bitrate: 850kbps VBR (converted to 705 kbps FLAC). Also there doesn't seem to be an option in File Types in Settings to set Apple Lossless to native. I have a Boom pointing at the same server and was wondering whether the fact that the Boom cannot play ALAC natively meant the server was transcoding to FLAC. However my Boom is switched off and is not synced with the Touch. Is there any way of getting SBS on my Mac to play ALAC natively? Mike You might be able to make adjustments to the convert.conf file to enable native playback. This will only work if you do not have any older generation squeezebox players as they will not be able to playback correctly. This is probably why SBS defaults to transcoding to FLAC. Because ALAC and FLAC are both lossless, there is no harm in this behavior. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84823 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Audio underrun with FLAC
aubuti;588338 Wrote: Was it having this problem before you upgraded to the latest firmware? Also, what compression level are the FLACs? I recall reports of problems with FLAC compression greater than -5. I thought all those FLAC compression problems were due to the slow CPU in the squeezebox 3. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83185 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Powered Desktop Speakers forTouch
I have AudioEngine A2 speakers on my desk.. they're fantastic. See other thread for more info. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82281 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Initial Buffering
Peter Galbavy;557942 Wrote: I use an NV+ which is essentially the same as the Duo but with four disk slots. If you have not already done so, upgrade the RAM on the Duo to the full 1GB which should cost you pennies nowadays. Any laptop SO-DIMM of the right speed will work, regardless of the supported hardware list. Yea, updating the ram to 1G is probably the easiest/best first step in fixing the issues you're seeing. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79979 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Initial Buffering
Are you using wifi? What kind of computer is running your squeezebox server. It sounds like there is something that is slowing down the connection enough that it can't fill up the buffer fast enough. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79979 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Initial Buffering
Chrobrego;557687 Wrote: My music and SqueezeServer (7.5.1) reside on ReadyNAS Duo. Ahh, the Duo uses the old NV+ CPU which has been known to be underpowered. It also only had 256MB of ram, which is basically the minimum needed to run squeezebox server. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79979 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Why does (digital out) sound quality differ between Touch and Duet?
Gruff;553490 Wrote: I see a lot of comments here in the forums claiming that the sound quality of the Touch is superior than that from the Duet (which I currently have). My vote is it's all in their head. There is a theoretical audibility of clock jitter (which is improved in the Touch). But nobody has been able to demonstrate this in any repeatable way that I'm aware of. It would be really interesting to put a Touch and a Duet in your system and use Audio DiffMaker (http://www.libinst.com/Audio%20DiffMaker.htm) to measure the analog output of your DACmagic. In theory there may be some difference, but DiffMaker will prove it. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79500 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Review At Computer Audiophile
Laugh, large claims about the sound quality and switching PSU, but the reviewer didn't even test the analog output. computeraudiophile is just another crap review site. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79141 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Recommended decoder settings for best sound quality
The defaults are pretty optimal. There's not much to do when decoding FLAC. It either works or it doesn't, just like opening a ZIP file. Some people claim huge differences with the various volume controls, but the defaults are sane. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78771 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 802.11n wireless support
Threads like this make me almost wish they had done something like they did for USB. In USB there are USB 2.0 full-speed devices that are actually USB 1.1 class full-bandwidth. 802.11n is a SUPERSET of 802.11g. They are fully compatible. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77978 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 802.11n wireless support
Threads like this make me almost wish they had done something like they did for USB. In USB there are USB 2.0 full-speed devices that are actually USB 1.1 class full-bandwidth. 802.11n is a SUPERSET of 802.11g. They are fully compatible. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77978 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Need advice on how to move music
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Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Exactly where can I buy a Touch?
I wonder if it's still possible to buy them and pick them up from the office in mountain view. :) Anybody know? -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76935 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital EQ?
Can you post more info on those speakers? I'm not sure what the inductor you're talking about is doing. Normally I see inductors used as low pass filters in a crossover network. I don't think this could be done correctly with a single amplifier. You would need a bi-amp setup and the EQ work being done at the amplifier stage for the woofer. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
