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Heard them at the 2003 VSAC show. Running off De Havilland SET amps, the
Rethm's (second, I think) were spooky good, with not to much of the
infamous lowther bark. Plus they looked cool.
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I don't even think my dealer would let me complete a sentence about the
SB.
They are very technically competent and I am thankful they don't push
the cable BS. However, they are a Sonos dealer, and push it quite a
bit.
They can be quite pricey and elitist and I don't think me telling them
about
I heard a pair of Lowthers once and couldn't figure out what all the
hoopla was about. I've never been a tube fan. I HAD heard a couple of
JBL single driver designs that were pretty good back in the day. The A8
(95 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) owners out there are powering them with everything from
flea siz
nelamvr6 wrote:
H...I live in CT, I will definitely drop in to audition. I'm a
little skeptical about a one driver system, but I will certainly give
them a listen.
There is a whole branch of the audiophile world dealing with lowther
speakers, and SET amps.
It is hard to get extremes of t
nelamvr6 Wrote:
> H...I live in CT, I will definitely drop in to audition. I'm a
> little skeptical about a one driver system, but I will certainly give
> them a listen.
Mow THATS an open mind!
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H...I live in CT, I will definitely drop in to audition. I'm a
little skeptical about a one driver system, but I will certainly give
them a listen.
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Skunk Wrote:
> That's keeping an open mind?
I've heard a few different Fostex drivers in a few different
alignments. Just didn't rock my boat. Have you ever heard the B200 in
ANY alignment? The builder of my speakers, Louis at Omega, also builds
cabinets for Fostex drivers but is veering away fr
Skunk Wrote:
> That's keeping an open mind?
Well, konut, I have to thank you for the tip. Those indeed are
intriguing.
B200:
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Skunk Wrote:
> You should bring some discs that you _don't_ like as well, as long as
> they sound good, because you'll loose your biasing emotional attachment
> to the songs. Maybe also discs with similar levels, for a better
> comparison... my 2c and I'll leave it alone now :) Have fun.
That's
konut Wrote:
> I don't care for Fostex. Never have.
>
That's keeping an open mind?
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I don't care for Fostex. Never have. The Visaton B200 is a whole
different animal. I listen to a variety of music from solo acoustic
guitar to big band to classical to reggae to blues to bluegrass to hard
rock at levels exceeding 100db. EVERYTHING sounds good on my A8s
provided the recording is go
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nelamvr6 Wrote:
> I'm planning on bringing more than a few discs on my auditioning trips.
You should bring some discs that you _don't_ like as well, as long as
they sound good, because you'll loose your biasing emotional attachment
to the songs. Maybe also discs with similar levels, for a bette
Skunk Wrote:
> Good answer! I like my speakers (yeah the ones on the swivel chair:) for
> Miles and Coltrane, but most of the other stuff you listed doesn't sound
> as good on them, eg the newest Strokes album sounds like it was recorded
> inside a tin can.
>
> Re: Stevie; The Sky is Crying is
konut Wrote:
> I would suggest you keep an open mind.
Yes, absolutely keep an open mind. I actually use fostex speakers,
konut... I just don't like them as much for some of the music he
listens to. He knew what kind of speakers I had because he posted about
my speaker stands- which I think is th
FWIW, I would suggest you _not_ look into 'full range' drivers for your type of
music..[/QUOTE Wrote:
>
>
> I would suggest you keep an open mind.
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On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:08 -0800, Mike Hanson wrote:
> rmasson Wrote:
> > For those who are curious, I could find no audible difference between
> > the coax and optical digital out when fed through the DAC-1. This is
> > not really surprising though as the DAC-1 is apparently designed to
> > elim
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rmasson Wrote:
> For those who are curious, I could find no audible difference between
> the coax and optical digital out when fed through the DAC-1. This is
> not really surprising though as the DAC-1 is apparently designed to
> eliminate "all" jitter effects.
I expected the same, but in my case
If you are going for furniture rather than 'rack' then I agree
wholeheartedly - I have used some lightweight Ikea tables as hi-fi
supports and they actually employed a very similar honeycombe
construction to Russ Andrews excellent Torlyte(?) offerings!! (you find
this out when you try to drill a w
Thanks for that Sean, just wanted to be sure SB3 wireless wouldn't upset
things as I am very happy for the moment (I might try a couple of mods
mentioned by folk here when I am brave enough! :-)
Hi Skunk I have Meridian 502 pre-amp feeding 507 power amp, SB2 uses
digital out to 556 24 bit DAC upf
GaryB Wrote:
> I don't think rolling DAC chips is an option.
Sorry, to treat you like google, but one more question. Would it be of
any benefit to stick some blu tack on the clock while it's open?
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Timbo Wrote:
>
> I was worried about sitting a digitally noisy wi-fi device on top of my
> lovely Meridian analogue gear
>
I chose wired because I'm in a noisy area, and because I figured at
some point I'd want to run S video cables from the server anyway. I
could go wireless with a base stat
nelamvr6 Wrote:
>
> I tend mostly towards music that doesn't lend itself to pigeonholing.
>
Good answer! I like my speakers (yeah the ones on the swivel chair:)
for Miles and Coltrane, but most of the other stuff you listed doesn't
sound as good on them, eg the newest Strokes album sounds lik
Done
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2801
Vote away
Craig
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Craig Wrote:
> ok, I'll do it but how do you enter an enhancement request?
>
> Craig
Same as a bug. Only you mark the Severity as "enhancement".
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/
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ok, I'll do it but how do you enter an enhancement request?
Craig
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Craig Wrote:
> I made a suggestion a while back, that the preamp gain control should
> have positive values too, that way you could offset the reduction in
> level caused by replay gain and get the output level that you want.
> Which in my case would be comparable with my CD player.
>
> Craig
^^^ That's hilarious -- I just bought a piece at Ikea yesterday using
the same thinking!
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The wireless card is disabled when connecting over ethernet - there's no
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Yes that would be great - I could leave my amp at one volume level for
all the devices going into it then, as opposed to now where I have
evyrthing else set to 3 or so, the squeezebox needs about 5.5 to 6 for
the same volume.
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I don't think rolling DAC chips is an option. If you look at the
datasheet for the PCM1748, you'll see that its a 16 pin SSOP/QSOP
package. Take a look here:
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/pcm1748.pdf
Brown Dog (http://cimarrontechnology.com/) doesn't sell adapters for
this footprint and I'
Thanks for the recommendation so far guys. I have planned on listening
very well before buying, I just wanted to have a few models to listen
look for before I start out the door. I won't be buying until later
this spring at any rate.
I tend mostly towards music that doesn't lend itself to pigeonh
Hi there - before I go rush out and buy that lovely SB3 I wanted to pass
a few things by you guys to see what the the panel think :-)
I have had an SB2 for few months now and I am stunned by what I
consider to be an exceptionally fine digital transport, but now I
really fancy that gorgeous (i
Thanks for the details, Pat!
Roger on the wireless network throughput. Every lab test I have done
shows a maximum user throughput of about half the advertised air rate.
The best layer 4 (TCP) throughput I have achieved is 47MBps with a
matched pair of "turbo 108" units from DLink. Most of the sta
I made a suggestion a while back, that the preamp gain control should
have positive values too, that way you could set it to +10 dB and get
the output level that you want.
Craig
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GaryB Wrote:
>
> The hardest part of the entire modification is removing the PCM1748
> without destroying the circuit board traces.
> ---Gary
I'm not sure if I was supposed to sort through the other thread to see
if this was addressed, but:
Can I put a browndog adapter on there and 'roll' DAC
pfarrell Wrote:
>
> One out of the box suggestion that I think you should consider
> is a pair of Mackie 824 monitor speakers.
>
Good idea, especially for cramped quarters (unlike maggies).
I want powered monitors too, mainly because I read liner notes and
can't help but notice what monitors
Pat wrote
>
> With the pre-SB2/3 units, they did only MP3 and PCM native in the
> SqueezeBox. So if you kept your music in Flac, it had to
> be decompressed on the server and sent as PCM (or raw .wav file).
> This uses up a large portion of the real bandwidth available
> on a 802.11b network. And t
rmasson Wrote:
> Since a few have asked, my equipment downstream comprises of the
> following:
>
> PS Audio GCC-100 Control Amplifier
> Paradigm Signature S2 Speakers (coming soon: HSU VTF-2 MK 2 Subwoofer
> will be added to the mix)
> Benchmark DAC-1 using the balanced outputs
> Sony SCD C2000e
So, without waiting for an enhancement to Random Mix, you could if you
were feeling enthusiastic use multiple genre tags throughout your music
collection... for example add the tag RandomOK so that different tracks
might have genres of
TestCD
Rock;RandomOK
Classical;RandomOK
Rock
This is also e
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