Well I'd disagree with you that all it does is stream music. I mean
it's getting it off the network, decoding it, converting it to analog,
and amplifying it, and all of those things can cause distortion in one
way or another.
I agree that the general population wouldn't pay 500 for one (Hell I
I'm chuffed that my new SB2 has native FLAC support. I was anticipating
that this would enable me to rip to FLAC for gapless goodness, rather
than dealing with the hit-and-miss gapless MP3 encoding I was using.
Trialling FLAC with Foobar2000, I get fantastic, seamless track
transitions (I'm
bjackson Wrote:
Well I'd disagree with you that all it does is stream music.
You are correct and my statement was not meant to disparage the SB2 or
its development community in any way. Quite the opposite, in fact.
There have been many thousands of man-hours of compensated and
volunteer
Some people amaze me! If you have a very small collection of 100 CDs,
you've probably spent in excess of $1000 just to purchase them, yet you
begrudge $500 on the equipment to listen to what's on them! And if you
cheapskate on the quality of the equipment you are probably only
hearing half the
radish Wrote:
You're streaming as FLAC right? Sounds like you might be experiencing
this bug : http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434
From what I can tell it's missing a fraction of a second at the end of
the outgoing track, which, depending on the actual track, could easily
At the risk of labouring a point I've posted up a dialup-unfriendly
(1.2Mb) snapshot of the Google homepage on my Jap PSP with v2.00
firmware (text size is set to Normal):
http://www.nmacleod.com/psp/google.jpg
The sort of text rendering issues I'm talking about should be fairly
clear if you
Interesting measurements Sean, if you still have access to the
measurement apparatus, I'd be interested to see those jitter
measurements replicated at the DAC clock input.
I wouldn't be surprised if the CPU / internal digital activity had a
greater effect at that point, since you then have the
Jitter doesn't have as much effect on the sound of the complete unit as
does the power supply, coupling capacitors, op-amps, etc.
The PSU stuff is inextricably related to jitter, as Patrick has pointed
out. Replacing the internal switcher with a linear supply will have had
a big impact on this
Patrick Dixon Wrote:
Some people amaze me! If you have a very small collection of 100 CDs,
you've probably spent in excess of $1000 just to purchase them, yet you
begrudge $500 on the equipment to listen to what's on them! And if you
cheapskate on the quality of the equipment you are
Knowing what's good enough is the key to life, my friend. :-)Yeah, expect
little and you will never be disappointed.
BTW, I have a 1960 recording of Buddy Holly that someone gave me, that
sounds like he is still alive and in the room with me - so don't you
kid yourself that old recordings are
Wow - heavy duty replies... I just wanted to open a little discussion
and see what others thought about a nicer looking, somewhat improved,
SB2.
Sounds a good amount of people group the SB2 into just another computer
product. Myself, being a long term FM jazz fan, am excitied about using
the
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 11:38 -0700, jazzfan wrote:
Wow - heavy duty replies... I just wanted to open a little discussion
and see what others thought about a nicer looking, somewhat improved,
SB2.
I am sure that Sean and company will invent a SB3 that is way cooler.
They have before, the SB2
Andrew L. Weekes Wrote:
I'd be interested to see those jitter measurements replicated at the DAC
clock input.
These were in fact taken at the DAC input, except the last one which
was taken at the hcu04.
It is also possible to see a jitter histogram for the s/pdif output
using this device,
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