Hmm, and after some reasonably exhaustive listening tests against Joni
Mitchell's Court and Spark - Opening Piano in 'Same Situation', there
is a noticeable reduction of hammer noise (or maybe the damper or soft
pedal moise) when listening to 256 Bps encoded mp3 vs Flacs,
what else may be
^^^ I know %*$#-all about EE, but I too bought a nice glass toslink
cable to go between my SB2 and a DAC1, and it makes a nice difference,
to my ears anyway.
Until I win the lottery, I've no desire whatsoever to spend thousands
of dollars on a high end transporter, as I seriously doubt any
If you must encode with MP3 at anything less than 320 kbps, you should
really be using VBR (variable bit rate) encoding.
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Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED];137455 Wrote:
Eh? What's that you're saying? Speak up a bit lad, and stop mumbling.
And what's worse - I say WHAT'S WORSE - is you can't get proper steel
needles any more either..
And then they amplified it,
It was much LOUDER then.
So you sharpened finer
You took the words right out of my keyboard.
(Except that it's fibre not finer needles. Don't ask me why - I'm
not that old - but it's here in black and white in front of me in The
Songs of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, Elm Tree Books and St
George's Press, 1977 price £6.50, also
Its actually in At the Drop of a Hat, not Another prompted by
your post I just went and listened very carefully, and you're right! I
have to say I prefer my version, but never mind...
Ceejay
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ceejay's
Thanks, Ceejay, yes, I couldn't remember which one it was in without digging up the box (which is currently at the very bottom of the "just digitised" pile somewhere in the deepest innermost recesses of my den) or else firing up, and taking an eternity to search through on, the Squeezebox, of
SuperQ;137663 Wrote:
according to:
http://slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html
the SB2/3 can do 24bit/48khz. but not 96khz.
oh.. I just saw another thread (and read the 6.5.0 release notes) the
latest SB2/3 firmware will downsample 96khz to 48khz..
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SuperQ
Paul, Mike et. al
I am using a Sound Professionals glass toslink ($50). I also have the
lesser priced one. I am told the same glass toslink is available on
partsexpress for $30.
I am using a Furman PowerFactor Pro and Blue Circle MR1200 balanced
power conditioner daisy chained, with VHAUdio and
Softwire,
While the Panny's sound isn't my cuppa, that is subjective. Given your
components, I'd say you're done and should enjoy it and not obscess
over further upgrades, as you'd be climbing a very steep cost vs.
benefit slope.
Kudos,
Paul
PS - Apologies to the forum participants for the OT
Probably a good idea to re-rip to FLAC. That way, you are certain of
getting 100% of the sound quality, you have an effective backup of your
CD collection, and you NEVER have to rip again.
Even if you can only hear minor differences between quality mp3 files
and FLAC files, the differences are
Coming back to the topic, I agree with Horizons characterization of
Stereophile and JA, for the most part. But JA is one of the most
technical guys in the audio review business and Stereophile is one of
the first to report on any new technology developments/breakthroughs.
For example, it is the
Thanks a lot. I feel so good the SB can do things other than just
16/44.1, especially when I will use a DAC and digital recorder capable
of higher rates. Testing a simple recording made with 16/44.1 and
16/48 made clear how better sounding the latter is: more air, fuller,
more lifelike.
Can't
2006-09-20-13:28:12 SoftwireEngineer:
(Thanks Paul, I am looking a better 'pure digital amplifier' in the
$1-$2K category to replace the Panny with. But nobody seems to be
taking up this bracket yet.
Actually... are you in the US? It looks as if TacT's summer sale price
for the S2150 might
There is 1 elpac left at electronicsurplus.com. for only 17.50.
they are 40.00 elsewhere. Had mine sent directly to Bolder for
mods...add about 7.50 for shippingstill pretty cheap
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tomjtx's
In anticipation of the Transporter, I will be using the Transporter
digital out into my DCC2 SE and since the DCC2 SE has a clock out, I
could connect it to the Transporter clock in.
So I need a BNC to BNC cable. What kind of cable? Anything will do? Or
is there a certain type of wiring I need
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c'mon, who's got one?!
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highdudgeon
SB3-Lavry DA10-Nuforce 9.02s-Harbeth Monitor 30s/Skylan stands.
Simple and satisfying. In a larger room, I would move back to larger
speakers, subs, and probably RCS.
highdudgeon's
Slim Devices says the offer for a free SB with Transporter purchase will
disappear once the Transporter begins shipping. Since the offer is still
up, I think they haven't begun shipping yet, despite the original
estimated shipping date.
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TiredLegs
Is there is reliable, unbiased publication that reviews audiophile
equipment online?
scott
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SoftwireEngineer;137689 Wrote:
it is the stereophile article on jitter, which helped me understand this
concept and this came 10 or 15 years earlier !!!
Audiophile magazines need jitter, or another concept like it, in order
to have a basis for distinguishing between digital sources. Otherwise,
Me. :)
Patrick posted this: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?
t=27536
We had a slight delay on some of the case parts, so we haven't
shipped out any of the backordered units yet, but we expect the first
units to go out in the next day or so. The production team is
SuperQ;137663 Wrote:
according to:
http://slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html
the SB2/3 can do 24bit/48khz. but not 96khz.
SuperQ,
When I tried to play some 16 bits/48 Khz WAV files from HD, how come
all I get is white noise? The SB should do 16/48, and my AS NOS DAC
should handle
Sorry to be unhelpful, but there is no audio review publication, online
or otherwise, that could be considered either reliable or unbiased -
flames welcome ;)
The only way is to listen for yourself. Forget A-B testing, solid
diamond cables, jitter and distortion - just listen to whatever you
Found this today ..
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_documentation.html
http://www.slimdevices.com/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/download.php?file=http%3A//www.slimdevices.com/documentation/Transporter-Owners-Guide.pdf
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pc4ever1
2006-09-20-15:13:09 WSLam:
So I need a BNC to BNC cable. What kind of cable? Anything will do? Or
is there a certain type of wiring I need for the clock sync?
I don't think there are too many weird options here. I assume you just
want some sort of BNC-terminated coax which is as close as
TiredLegs;137747 Wrote:
Audiophile magazines need jitter, or another concept like it, in order
to have a basis for distinguishing between digital sources. Otherwise,
all digital sources would sound the same, assuming no bit errors. Then
they wouldn't have anything to write about.
I have to
It is certainly true for the Lavry, which is a re-clocker that does it
right. The issue really isn't perfecting transports. So long as they
are bit-perfect, they're fine; the point is perfecting the DAC and
devising solid re-clocking and de-jittering schemes. This isn't just
my opinion. But,
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Out of curiosity, how exactly can a re-clocking DAC work? The clock in
the DAC will never run at exactly the same speed as the clock in the
source because the crystals are slightly different. That means data is
coming in at a different rate than it's going out. I suppose the DAC
could pause
I've had my SB3 a few months now, but just recently finally got around
to comparing the same tracks played from cd vs. an apple lossless file
over my squeezebox. To my amazement, the squeezebox sounded
significantly better, on every track. I definitely found that the
soundstage was deeper and
highdudgeon;137335 Wrote:
Whoever claims to hear a difference between Apple Lossless and AIFF, or
pretty much anythign else, is smoking something funny.
I don't claim to hear a difference. The stereophile crowd does. ergo,
they should compare aiff files to a cd to be consistent with their
Hi--
I have a Transporter on the way and will be using the balanced analog
outputs into balanced inputs on my amps. They will be connected via 2
meters of balanced cable.
If I understand correctly, due to use of a digital volume control,
theoretically the best sound would come from having
mr_bill;137423 Wrote:
The comment that Mauidan is referring too (in which the poster made no
sense, as he didn't compare two similiar things but rather he compared
using the SB3 as a tranport to SB3 with analogue out)
In my opinion, if anyone thinks the SB3 analogue out sounds the same as
Horizons;137485 Wrote:
The pump and slam job is exactly what I expected and predicted out of
Stereophile and JA. You just can't accept millions of dollars of
advertising from high end companies and then come out and say the SB3
is in their league. So you do the gentlemenly thing that JA is
You might be interested in Scott Endler's balanced attenuators. I have a
pair of his single-ended ones, and they're great, and not expensive at
all. If you're using the Transporter as your sole source (as I do the
SB3), then passive attenuators are a great way to go.
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I think you are absolutely right.
tomjtx;137798 Wrote:
I don't claim to hear a difference. The stereophile crowd does. ergo,
they should compare aiff files to a cd to be consistent with their
belief they can hear a difference.
I don't claim NOT to hear a diference either. I don't think I
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