[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Help...not enjoying my SB3

2006-06-29 Thread Phil Leigh
Jack, Your SB or interconnects must be faulty. The SB is NOT "sibilant" and has a quite smooth mid-top response via its analogue outputs - this is easily measured, hearable and provable. Its digital output is flat eq-wise (as the laws of physics dictate). There is no PC audio card (even M-audio

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best Hard Drive For Music Quality?

2006-06-29 Thread Phil Leigh
That's what the Altmann UPCI does - it strips out the SPDIF clock and injects a new clock right at the input to the DAC... -- Phil Leigh Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this th

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 I2S direct out modding etc

2006-06-29 Thread JohnSwenson
Hi Sean, I just picked up a HP 3585a spectrum analyzer off ebay so I'm going to be doing a little experimentation with that first. It won't give 'ps' numbers but it does give hi res pictures of the sidebands which in many ways are even more interesting than just ps numbers. I've got some boards

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best Hard Drive For Music Quality?

2006-06-29 Thread Deaf Cat
norderney Wrote: > I have been thinking of getting a 1Tb external Lacie drive. Lacie seem > to be the only people making 1Tb external hard drives. > > Do I have any other options other than Lacie for 1Tb? > > thanks > andrew smith If you do go down the Lacie route I would strongly recommend

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Naim enters the music server game

2006-06-29 Thread Andyoz
...and cryogenically treating them! -- Andyoz Andyoz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24901 _

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Help...not enjoying my SB3

2006-06-29 Thread JSonnabend
> lets call it sound with emotional integrity for want of a better name Let's call it the sound you're already accustomed to. You "audiophile" guys crack me up. Have fun with your car battery in the living room. BTW, have you compared (blindly) the HagUSB against any other USB audio devices? I

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Help...not enjoying my SB3

2006-06-29 Thread Wombat
Lyonesse Wrote: > Everyone is different and their listening approach is also different,I > dont wanna get bogged down with the do's and donts of my testing. The > squeezebook is another innovative but ultimately unmusical creation... > Ive gone over to laptop as pc server with a hagerman usb / sp

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Naim enters the music server game

2006-06-29 Thread fredrickj
Andyoz Wrote: > There's also the serious issue of what type of RJ-45 connectors sound > best, the white ones or the clear ones? > > Re. wireless networks, that's been discussed. They're up in arms about > RFI issues affecting the rest of their kit. They're plastic so you can be sure they'll s

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best Hard Drive For Music Quality?

2006-06-29 Thread John Stimson
snarlydwarf Wrote: > The catch is that there is no clock in that data. There isn't a > seperate line saying "okay, here comes the next bit!" which would get > rid of the jitter argument completely. And because even the crystals > that control timing are not -exactly- accurate, you can see error

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Help...not enjoying my SB3

2006-06-29 Thread Lyonesse
Everyone is different and their listening approach is also different,I dont wanna get bogged down with the do's and donts of my testing. The squeezebook is another innovative but ultimately unmusical creation... Ive gone over to laptop as pc server with a hagerman usb / spdif converter, everything

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Help...not enjoying my SB3

2006-06-29 Thread Wombat
Lyonesse Wrote: > > I also used my pc straight into the dac using foobar2000 (44.1khz 16 > bit) through my spdif soundcard. and was able to add my cdp to the mix > using both toslink and Coax options. > Really interesting. Even when you set 44.1/16 in foobar your Trust soundcard resamples if y