I have an A5 with Gale speakers of a similar price range to your
Morduant Shorts. The SB3 sounds fantastic in this setup.
No doubt you could multiply the cost and improve it all, but I can
definitely vouch for the sound quality at this level. Discussions of
budget amps usually bring up the
yea the A5 for £119 seems like a good buy, the Mordaunts are £149 but I
might go for some longs.. anything else I need to complete the setup
apart from quality cabling? Was going to get a tuner but not sure if I
will need it with streaming radio..
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I think that your average PC could handle several SB clients with no
degredation in performance. Each file is decompressed and then
streamed into the SB. This requires little processing power and seems
to require little RAM (watch your Windows task list while clicking
play!).
I think the real
joncourage Wrote:
clearly something the SD firmware folks need to take a close, priority
look at. this is a significant feature of the SB imo, and while there
appears to be a workaround in running decompression server-side, one of
the features of the SB is that the firmware s/b able to
After changing the FLAC settings there is a clear difference in my setup
through the digital output from the Squeezebox. [Lavry Black DA10, AKG
K340 and Grado HF-1 headphones] Everything is less strained and more
natural sounding. I had a friend over yesterday and he picked up on it
right away
Out of curiosity, how are you guys A/B comparing the two? Is there any
way to do it through the remote? I can't seem to change the setting w/o
walking to the other room and using the web interface.
I still think I hear a difference, even after switching to a $30 Sonic
Impact amp (with fostex
Skunk Wrote:
Out of curiosity, how are you guys A/B comparing the two? Is there any
way to do it through the remote? I can't seem to change the setting w/o
walking to the other room and using the web interface.
I still think I hear a difference, even after switching to a $30 Sonic
Impact
opaqueice Wrote:
For the speaker test, I had to walk into the other room, make the
change, walk back, listen a bit, then restart the track.
I actually thought of a somewhat blind method for the listening area
test.
I went to the File Types screen, placed the mouse over the FlacFlac
(built
There is only one real way to test all of your theories.
Hook up another PC to the coax output of your squeezebox, with
something like the digital input on a soundblaster audigy, or similar
device.
set a recoder to start on audio start, and digitaly record the output
of the squeezebox. Then do
SuperQ Wrote:
There is only one real way to test all of your theories.
Hook up another PC to the coax output of your squeezebox, with
something like the digital input on a soundblaster audigy, or similar
device.
set a recoder to start on audio start, and digitaly record the output
of
I've been searching for a nice pair of active monitors to go with my
computer for a while. My bias is towards budget pro audio equipment. My
short list is:
Tapco S5's (~£230)
http://www.tapcoworld.com/products/s5/index.html
* They've had quite a few good reviews such as:
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ianwi wrote:
Since I can't find any great deals on ebay (like Genelec's or Mackie's
:-), I'll probably get the Tapco S5's.
Tapco S5's (~£230)
Tapco is Mackie's budget line extension.
They are generally well accepted. Not sure that
that they are really audiophile level.
The goals of pro-audio
Skunk Wrote:
I was wrong at least half the time, to my surprise :-)
Thanks for posting your results.
There have been many times I was sure I could hear a difference in
something, so sure I was quite confident I could do it in a blind
test... only to try it and be wrong :-).
So at least for
SuperQ Wrote:
set a recoder to start on audio start, and digitaly record the output
of the squeezebox. Then do a binary comparison of the bitstreams to
see what changes. I've seen posts by slimdevices staff about how this
is how they benchmark the output of the squeezebox.. no ears, or
Thank you for that informative post!
Now go away.
TD
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