rajacat;152597 Wrote:
I studied Classical guitar for 10 years and definitely agree that there
is a clear difference between a rosewood sound box, such as my Ramirez
had, and the spruce used in most flamenco guitars. I doubt that any
luthiers use measurements and numbers to predetermine what
There is an inevitable convergance of video and audio. However, One way
to think of the value of video out is not just to play DVD rips and
other video material but simply to output the already GOOD display to
an LCD or plasma (that many people also have in their listening rooms)
= a GREAT
Hi guys,
This is my first post to the forum so go easy.
I'm looking for an amp to complete my setup.
I'm using a SD Transporter (playing FLAC) as the source with a pair of
Paradigm Reference 100 V.3 speakers.
I was going to go with a Lavry DA10, but apparently the onboard DAC of
the Trasnporter
Yes, I had presumed digital switching and passthrough would have been
included. I wanted to convert an optical input to coaxial digital out
as part of a whole house digital distrubtion. As it happens I can do
this already with an ancient audiolab DAC, but I needed another unit.
Oh well, hope this
There are literally hundreds (thousands?) of amps out there, and what is
best for you is very depenent on your personal tastes. So I would
recommend that you hit a few local audio stores and listen to a few
different setups (or better yet, if you have friends who are into this
stuff, listen to
I will be hitting the local shops, but there I'll be restricted to the
amps they have available to listen to. Any amps generally considered
to be outstanding in my price range will give me a good place to start
listening looking. Any suggestions?
In answer to your points:
Tubes don't
I would go for the flying moles (yes, that's their name!). I recently
heard a setup with SB3 fed into a Benchmark DAC1 driving the amps
directly. Incredible accurate and natural sounding. If my Goldmund
Mimesis 6 was not in so good a condition I would be tempted to go for
those moles.
PaulB;152643 Wrote:
My take on preamps is different from that of Phil (see above). I used
to think the same about preamps: just a switching device and a volume
control, even though more than once I heard about the need for matching
impedance between amps and sources.
For the record,
Mark Wrote:
Personally I have no idea why the whole world is fascinated with video.
Well. Wasn't it nice to have music stream from a different room and get
the best quality from the CD ripping?
Now, isn't it also good to have video streaming from a different and
get the best quality
Why don't you just listen for yourself? Do you really need other people
to tell you which sounds better, when you have the ability to do this
test for yourself? FWIW, just go with lossless, whether it's Apple,
FLAC, WAV, doesn't matter. You'll sleep better knowing that your files
are bit perfect
Compared my totally unmodified SB2 to a Rotel rcd 1072:
http://www.rotel.com/products/specs/rcd1072.htm. The Rotel sounds real
nice, mid/high is much more open, transparent. The SB2 sounds kind of
muddy compared to the Rotel.
So the question is... What should I do with the SB2 to bring it up to
Can anyone help with what I am sure is quite a basic question?
I recently bought an SB3 purely to take advantage of the vast array of
content available on Internet radio, particularly for Jazz which has
very little to offer on DAB or FM.
I was impressed by the quality of sound that could be
tomjtx;152691 Wrote:
I think there is a fallacy in that reasoning. A study of the
effectiveness of a drug doesn't rely on the psychological state of the
subject(excluding drugs for depression etc.)
That's not true - the placebo effect is important in all trials, not
just those for
I will be auditioning a fully modded SB with WAyne's 750.00 PSU.
I should get it around Nov. 17th and wil have it at least a week to
compare it to my TP(1 month old by then)
I've already compared my SB3/modded elpac to the TP and found the TP to
be better by a pretty significant margin.
I'll
Cool, I'm looking forward to that! I would never consider the $750 PSU though...jan
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opaqueice;152697 Wrote:
That's not true - the placebo effect is important in all trials, not
just those for psychoactive drugs, which is the reason they must always
be controlled with placebo as well as double-blinded.
The subjects of those trials know they are being subjected to a
ackcheng;152681 Wrote:
Now, isn't it also good to have video streaming from a different and get
the best quality picture from the same box?
Not really. I don't play video on my PC. Well, low-quality snippets
of stuff, but that's it.
I suppose the need might be there if I downloaded or
marco1;152687 Wrote:
I realise that the DAC in SB3 is not going to be as good as my CD player
Actually that's probably not the case unless your CD player costs over
$500. What's more likely happened is that the Squeezebox and your
stereo system are more revealing than your computer audio
opaqueice;152710 Wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there is *always* a placebo
control, even in those tests. Don't underestimate the power of
psychology - taking a sugar pill and believing it is a cholsterol
lowering drug may actually lower your cholesterol... and even if it
Internet radio will not approach CD quality but many stations give you
choice of encoding. The quality of a stream depends not just on speed
but also how it is encoded.
Supposedly a 48kbps/sec AACplus stream is as good as FM and 128kbit/sec
MP3 - so speed isn't everything but it helps. Usually
Well thanks for the opinion that I should rip lossless, I did not feel I
had to launch into a long explanation of why I keep TWO servers one with
lossless for home audio and a second synched with ipod which also serves
as a multiperson server and this has many time more tracks and hence
need to
The point is that if you care enough to worry about .01% differences,
then you should be using lossless anyway. As time goes on, memory only
gets cheaper, and bandwidth faster, so the arguments for lossy diminish
even further. If you want a lossy format, I'd go with LAME. It's the
best, period.
Its in the main menu in the transporter but not on the remote
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Its in the main menu in the transporter but not on the remote (main menu
digital input 1 of 4)
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Differences between digital cables of varying quality/type are very
easily discernible. I dont know with what 'coax/toslink' opaqueice did
not find differences. The forum also needs to know his/her setup. If
you cannot hear differences in jitter in a digital playback setup. One
will be
In my opinion cables can make a difference especially in a system
capable of hight resolution. Last night I substituted some pure silver
speaker jumpers in my Omega Super 3 Bipoles for the stock copper wire
jumpers in my continual quest for even better sound quality. Much to my
surprise I
The contacts were very clean. Contacts do make a difference but
following the same logic, if contacts can make a difference so should
cables especially if they are of different metals. It's easy to turn
that logic around. BTW have you tried any of the contact enhancers such
as
jmourik;152690 Wrote:
The Rotel sounds real nice, mid/high is much more open, transparent. The
SB2 sounds kind of muddy compared to the Rotel.
I'm having the same issues. I've had my SB3 for a month now, and it is
leagues behind my Shanling - not really suitable for critical listening.
Great
marco1;152687 Wrote:
Can anyone help with what I am sure is quite a basic question?
I recently bought an SB3 purely to take advantage of the vast array of
content available on Internet radio, particularly for Jazz which has
very little to offer on DAB or FM.
I was impressed by the
Have you listened to a fully modded SB?
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NigelC;152766 Wrote:
Did you get the free SB3 with the Transporter?
The free SB3 offer was still in force. Paul said that it would stay
until the end of the week.
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Performers - dozens of mixers and effects - clipped/hypercompressed
mastering - you think a few extra ps of jitter
rplert;152787 Wrote:
The Transporter, however, is another matter. I have to listen very
carefully to discern any difference between it and my physical players
and even then I can't be sure if it is me or the players. And while I
certainly haven't heard them all I have not heard a $2000 CD
I recently put together a very nice system around ARC tube electronics
and the SB3+custom linear PS with a DAC-60 tube DAC sounds very good
indeed. So good, I decided not to invest in a transporter and get a VPI
Scout with a Benz Glider instead.
I got rid of my SACD player and will soon put all
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