[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread ceejay
jhm731;175585 Wrote: As I predicted in your part 1, I didn't think you’d hear any difference with this cheap linear PSU. Well, of course! Any solution to an audiophile problem that doesn't cost at least a grand can't possibly be worthwhile :) (runs for cover) -- ceejay

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread CardinalFang
adamslim;175432 Wrote: Hey, this is fun :) I suspect that CD correction is not inaudible (otherwise, why not use it for compression, none of this messing with FLAC and MP42). However, I have no evidence for this, thoughts welcome. Since the read buffer of the CD or iTunes or EAC ends up

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Active 2.1 speaker system suggestions, anyone?

2007-01-30 Thread Keith
I'm using Fostex PM04, they are compact and are OK, not HiFi but fine as personal monitors. I use a pair in the kitchen and in the study both connected to SB2's. -- Keith Keith's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread cliveb
I've seen a variety of comments in this thread which could do with a little bit of clarification: If you use secure mode it re-reads everything, which is why it's so slow when set up properly. Most drives these days are capable of reporting C2 errors, and in those cases EAC doesn't re-read -

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread CardinalFang
cliveb;175624 Wrote: Not sure exactly what you mean by damaged, but if you are talking about scratches and the like, these aren't the only ones that need error concealment. In my experience, the majority are not as a result of scratches, but that the CD was originally pressed with

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
Stereophile this and Stereophile that.. They seem to be some kind of gods over there! ;-) -- P Floding P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread Robin Bowes
thomsens wrote: Either you aren't actually reading my posts, or you simply can't understand where I'm coming from. Since I read all your posts and would have responded the same way Pat did, I suspect you're not very good at expressing what you mean. I'd have to spend more time correcting

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread cliveb
CardinalFang;175634 Wrote: I must admit I'm not sure - I don't use EAC, too slow and too much fussing about to set up. I thought it had concealment via the drive electronics, but you could be right and it does nothing. In that case, EAC would be creating audibly broken rips on bad discs

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Active 2.1 speaker system suggestions, anyone?

2007-01-30 Thread Gavster
bergek;175448 Wrote: ... I currently have AE Aego P5 and have been utterly disappointed due to very disturbing background noise. I should RMA them. I notice that AE have discontinued that model for some reason. Maybe they under-performed. Gavin -- Gavster

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Surround sound system that works well with my SB3.

2007-01-30 Thread babi8987
For those out there that don't have the big bucks to spend on a real high end sound system to go with your Squeeze Box, here's the system that I assembled around my SB3. A Rotel RSX-1057. It delivers good power, with great flexiblity at about $1,100. Connected SB3 with digital output. Center

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread CardinalFang
In the UK I would say that there is a huge amount of snobbery involved, plus a decent helping of ignorance based on iTunes and iPods being the public perception of computer audio. Most audio shops regard computer audio as MP3 quality and I doubt many have sat down and listened to a well

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
CardinalFang;175654 Wrote: In the UK I would say that there is a huge amount of snobbery involved, plus a decent helping of ignorance based on iTunes and iPods being the public perception of computer audio. Most audio shops regard computer audio as MP3 quality and I doubt many have sat down

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread PhilNYC
There are a ton of BM audio stores making a lot of money installing multi-room home theater systems using products like the ReQuest music servers and Crestron system controllers. Computer file formats and such should not be foreign to most of these guys (unless they subcontract that part out)...

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread totoro
As far as I can see, much of audiophilia and the high end stopped being about sound and became primarily concerned with status and snobbery at some point in the last 10 years. The descent of the audio press into techno porn shilling outrageously over-priced gewgaws and mystical claptrap to is a

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread egd
opaqueice;175526 Wrote: Buy cheap wires, and read this (unless you're looking for a new religion, in which case avoid it): http://sonido.uchile.cl/articulos/tenbiggestliesaudio.pdf Thanks, good article that basically confirms to me that when it comes to audio common sense and engineering

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread thomsens
Robin Bowes;175646 Wrote: thomsens wrote: Either you aren't actually reading my posts, or you simply can't understand where I'm coming from. Since I read all your posts and would have responded the same way Pat did, I suspect you're not very good at expressing what you mean. I'd

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
thomsens;175516 Wrote: I've been looking for a new high-end 2 channel system into which I will simply plug my SB, then later a Transporter. I have found that the traditional BM audiophile crowd has been somewhat ignorant to encoded music based on experience in several stores. Because I'm

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread totoro
cliveb;175643 Wrote: As far as I can make out, based on some experiments, if the drive is capable of reporting C2 errors (which most are), then EAC tells the drive NOT to conceal uncorrectable errors, but report them instead. It's at this point that EAC does its re-reading to see if it can

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
jhm731;175588 Wrote: You and opaqueice need to go down to your local Costco and pick up a $50. DVDP. IMO, the main barrier audiophiles have to the adoption of computer based audio isn't the fear of an unfamiliar technology, it's poor sound quality. I have a year-old Oppo CD/DVD

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread thomsens
P Floding;175675 Wrote: There is no sense in degrading sound willingly unless you have to. SB3 and Transporter works just fine with lossless audio. (Any digital audio is encoded, weather it is compressed or not, BTW.) Did that answer your original question? Am aware of all points -

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat was merely pointing out that you really shouldn't consider mp3 if you want a high-end system. I understand the portability thing, which was why I wrote flac2mp3 [1] so I can have a flac libary and maintain a parallel mp3 library with minimal effort. If you're planning to re-rip to flac then

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread sfraser
opaqueice;17 Wrote: It's pretty easy to have the best of both worlds in terms of fidelity and portability. If you rip your CDs to FLAC (or another lossless format), you can very easily convert them to MP3 all in one batch. Then you'll have two sets of files, but the MP3s are much

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread thomsens
Robin Bowes;175693 Wrote: Pat was merely pointing out that you really shouldn't consider mp3 if you want a high-end system. I understand the portability thing, which was why I wrote flac2mp3 [1] so I can have a flac libary and maintain a parallel mp3 library with minimal effort. If

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread sfraser
Not sure if this is the proper venue but here it goes. I was hoping to find out how much buffering capacity there is on a SB when streaming files from a SS. I will assume there is some? Question is it possible to reduce the buffering or turn it off completely? Why? I work as a Network Engineer

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175687 Wrote: Many on this forum and others have reported huge improvements from using linear PSU's at the same price point and below (this one sells for as much as $30, evidently). Furthermore it was opened up and checked, and it's perfectly well constructed. You just have

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
It's got 64Mb of RAM. If you switch off the network or the server it will continue to play for maybe 30 seconds, depending on how full the buffer was (the time might also depend on what file format you're streaming - possibly streaming mp3 it would last longer - but I haven't experimented). I

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
P Floding;175700 Wrote: What is the rest of your system? In my system I strongly suspect my TacT didn't like the SB's wall wart. The symptom was a loss of imaging and a more fatiguing sound in general. Re. display noise: You wouldn't expect that to change depending on extrenal power

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread tomjtx
Opaquiece, I did hear hash with the stock ww and the noise floor was lower with the linear psu. However the noise floor was lower when I plugged the ww into a power conditioner, though still louder than the elpac. My system may be more vulnerable to rfi than yours? jhm, As to price, I heard

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
P Floding;175636 Wrote: Stereophile this and Stereophile that.. They seem to be some kind of gods over there! ;-) Gods to some, devils to others: http://www.biline.ca/critic3.htm you have to love Aczel... -- opaqueice

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread bpa
You could try the Network test plugin from the Sb which is used to measure sustained throughput from a source - AFAIK buffering is not an issue in this test. Some measure of SB buffering can be adjusted from 3 secs to 30 secs from the Slimserver menu. I think a significant issue for streaming

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175706 Wrote: SB3 - custom Odyssey Audio Cyclops - BW CM4 (which are pretty good floorstanding box speakers with very high MAF/WAF). I wasn't referring to the display noise (although I see no reason why the PS would be less likely to affect that than music). I was referring to

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
tomjtx;175711 Wrote: Opaquiece, I did hear hash with the stock ww and the noise floor was lower with the linear psu. However the noise floor was lower when I plugged the ww into a power conditioner, though still louder than the elpac. My system may be more vulnerable to rfi than

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
P Floding;175717 Wrote: The display noise (if it's there) would be a product of the display circuit (power to the display, digital drivers, the actual display itself, etc). I don't see that an external power supply necessarily can do anything to affect that. But you do see how it can affect

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
Clive - yes, that is exactly what I meant (C2 errors + re-reads in EAC on 30% of 2,000+ CD's). Thanks for clarifying that. Phil -- Phil Leigh Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lanctot
CardinalFang;175634 Wrote: I thought it had concealment via the drive electronics, but you could be right and it does nothing. In that case, EAC would be creating audibly broken rips on bad discs rather than a barely-audible concealment. Is that really the case? Yes, this is the case. I'd

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175723 Wrote: But you do see how it can affect music playback? If the PS induces jitter in the D/A it's because there are some stray fields around which cause noise in the DAC. In that case they will also induce noise in the analogue out, and when you amplify it you should

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
I think I'm with PF on this one - it seems to be not so much a case of the noise floor being any lower, but of RFI getting in somewhere and jittering things up... I can't hear any difference in the noise floor playing a silent WAV... (in 5.1 party - ie mono mode) and believe me with 1,340 watts

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread tomjtx
Phil Leigh;175730 Wrote: I think I'm with PF on this one - it seems to be not so much a case of the noise floor being any lower, but of RFI getting in somewhere and jittering things up... I can't hear any difference in the noise floor playing a silent WAV... (in 5.1 party - ie mono mode)

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread whdean
I'm trying to follow this thread, but have a basic question - I have a Plextor Premium that I am using with EAC. The drive does have C2 error correction. However, the setup instructions for EAC stated to use Secure Mode, but not to check the box that asks if the drive has C2 error correction.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
cliveb;175624 Wrote: I've seen a variety of comments in this thread which could do with a little bit of clarification: If you use secure mode it re-reads everything, which is why it's so slow when set up properly. Most drives these days are capable of reporting C2 errors, and in those

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
whdean;175734 Wrote: I have a Plextor Premium that I am using with EAC. The drive does have C2 error correction. However, the setup instructions for EAC stated to use Secure Mode, but not to check the box that asks if the drive has C2 error correction. Checking the box defeats the drives

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
P Floding;175727 Wrote: Well, if a component (say the display system) GENERATES noise internally, it's not going to help adding a nicer external power supply. Isn't that quite obvious? If that's obvious (which I don't agree it is), then it's equally obvious that the PS doesn't affect

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread ezkcdude
P Floding;175636 Wrote: Stereophile this and Stereophile that.. They seem to be some kind of gods over there! ;-) I'm sure a good review translates to higher resale value. Just look at Audiogon. -- ezkcdude DIY projects page: http://www.ezdiyaudio.com System: SB3-EZDAC-MIT Terminator 2

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread jhm731
tomjtx;175711 Wrote: jhm, As to price, I heard NO difference between a stock elpac, a bolder modded elpac and wayne's prototype ultimate psu NONE, zero, zilch, nada. The bolder 750.00 psu is a monumental waste of money IMO. I'm flameproof at this point so don't bother :-) ( I eat

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
opaqueice;175723 Wrote: In any case it would be quite easy (with the right equipment) to measure whether or not SB jitter is affected by using a linear PS. Has anyone done that? Everything's been done before! http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24392 This is my personal

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175712 Wrote: Gods to some, devils to others: http://www.biline.ca/critic3.htm you have to love Aczel... That was good fun reading! -- P Floding P Floding's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread jhm731
opaqueice;175684 Wrote: I have a year-old Oppo CD/DVD player, which retails for around $200. I also have a Technics CD player from the mid 90's. Neither sounds better than the SB. I haven't bothered to level match them and do a careful comparison, but I suspect neither sounds worse

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread tomjtx
jhm731;175748 Wrote: I haven't heard the the Bolder PSU or the stock or modded Elpacs. Suggest you visit the Bolder forum on Audiocircle.com and post your findings on that product. My linear cost $30. Does your asbestos cereal taste better with whole milk or half half? ;-) If I

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
Skunk;175751 Wrote: Everything's been done before! http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24392 This is my personal favorite :-) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14589 ..Andrew L. Weekes response in particular. The question isn't does an upgraded supply make a

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
P Floding;175759 Wrote: It says absolutely nothing about the SMPS's possible influence on other equipment. Astute observation, but opaqueice had asked about jitter. -- Skunk Skunk's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175747 Wrote: If that's obvious (which I don't agree it is), then it's equally obvious that the PS doesn't affect music, since your argument works just as well for that. And again, it's not only the display noise one can check, it's also the background noise from the left channel.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
Not wishing to cloud the issue but what (I think) PF and I are hearing is the wall wart doing something to our TACT gear rather than anything to do with the SB itself. -- Phil Leigh Phil Leigh's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
Skunk;175764 Wrote: Astute observation, but opaqueice had asked about jitter. If used with an external DAC jitter may well be introduced by noise from the SMPS. Also, even when used with the internal DAC jitter may well result from noise (from the SMPS) being introduced in unexpected ways,

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
Phil Leigh Wrote: Not wishing to cloud the issue but what (I think) PF and I are hearing is the wall wart doing something to our TACT gear rather than anything to do with the SB itself. I don't think your comment clouds the issue - that possibility remains. But once again, if the problem

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread nicketynick
CardinalFang;175654 Wrote: and feng-shui wooden blocks to go under your keyboard. I knew there was something missing in my system Anybody know where I can get the audiophile-approved ones? No less than $1000 please. :-P -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Surround sound system that works well with my SB3.

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
Yeah, there are $3k+ equipment racks out there. It's getting ridiculous if you ask me! Here's mine FWIW Wired Sb3, 250 Sonic Impact Super T, 125 Zhaolu DAC, 175 Fostex fe206, 150 JBL Subwoofer, 100 Blue Jeans digital/speaker cable, 50 .5m cardas rca cable, 100 (weak moment) I think I'm under

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
P Floding;175768 Wrote: That somehow a DAC will start producing noise when nothing is played if jitter would be present when something is being played. It's like trying to check the quality of the water supply with the tap turned off. Look - if EMI is causing jitter in the DAC, it's also

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
nicketynick;175779 Wrote: I knew there was something missing in my system Anybody know where I can get the audiophile-approved ones? No less than $1000 please. :-P Just send me a private message, and we'll arrange something.. -- P Floding

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
Well, I disagree. I'll give one more example which might be instructive, and this will be my last comment on the subject. Suppose there's a component of EM noise at 100Hz. Imagine adding that a) to the digital signal before the DAC b) to the analogue signal after the DAC. Is there a

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
Phil Leigh;175784 Wrote: It doesn't necessarily follow that EMI causing jitter would be audible as noise in the analogue stages. Jitter affects timing not the noise floor. I can't hear the wart doing anything to my DAC as far as noise floor is concerned. It seems the TACT is susceptible to

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175789 Wrote: Well, I disagree. I'll give one more example which might be instructive, and this will be my last comment on the subject. Suppose there's a component of EM noise at 100Hz. Imagine adding that a) to the digital signal before the DAC b) to the analogue signal

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
opaqueice;175789 Wrote: Well, I disagree. I'll give one more example which might be instructive, and this will be my last comment on the subject. Suppose there's a component of EM noise at 100Hz. Imagine adding that a) to the digital signal before the DAC b) to the analogue signal

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread cliveb
Skunk;175739 Wrote: You might want to check your facts :-) http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ edit: link failed to go 'technology' page. See first two sentences. There's no arguing with what Andre has written on his web site. So how come discs which are known to be free of C2 errors rip

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
cliveb;175818 Wrote: There's no arguing with what Andre has written on his web site. So how come discs which are known to be free of C2 errors rip considerably faster when the C2 option is checked than when it isn't? This suggests to me that the sectors are being read fewer times.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
cliveb;175818 Wrote: There's no arguing with what Andre has written on his web site. Looking back at my comment, you were right to clarify. EAC isn't always slower in secure mode, because if you can trust your drives C2 and enable the feature there is no re-read. It's all explained really

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread cliveb
cliveb;175643 Wrote: But in hindsight, I might not have tried EAC using secure mode but with C2 capability switched off, so I'll give that a go and report back. OK, I've just tried this again, making sure to try EAC with the C2 option set both ways. I also tried setting the drive caches audio

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Definitive sonic differences between itunes and eac/flac

2007-01-30 Thread cliveb
Skunk;175832 Wrote: It's all explained really well in the tooltip rollovers in the application, e.g. when you mouseover the c2 checkbox. Thanks - I've just tried the tool tips in EAC, and see that it does indeed say that it doesn't re-read when C2 is checked. Which is in accordance with what

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
Phil Leigh;175800 Wrote: But...adding a 1kHz tone to (the analogue representation of) the digital signal wont create analogue noise in the DAC - it just makes it harder for the DAC to recover the bits... Well, not really. Adding noise to the digital signal (and yes PF, by digital signal

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread sfraser
Triode;175847 Wrote: SB3 will be a good demo, but only because it has a reasonable amount of buffering and hence you will get good performance.. Its designed to cater for Wifi dropouts so a 50ms protection switch is nothing for it. Data is transfered from the server to player using a tcp

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread Triode
I was trying to say its much more than 50ms - its of the order of 10secs or more depending on the data rate you are streaming at. [put I liked to do demos which always worked] -- Triode Triode's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
opaqueice;175845 Wrote: Well, not really. Adding noise to the digital signal (and yes PF, by digital signal I obviously mean the electrical S/PDIF signal transmitted along the wire, not the abstract sequence of bits) will change the analogue output of the DAC. This is called jitter; it

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Carroll
opaqueice;175712 Wrote: Gods to some, devils to others: http://www.biline.ca/critic3.htm you have to love Aczel... Peter is my audio hero - the best, more physically electronically sensible audio advice I have read along with Linkwitz www.linkwitzlab.com. Check out the new backissues in

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread bpa
I think a 50msec changeover is a bit irrelevant to a TCP connections as long as the basic comms link stays up. If there is a glitch which results in packet corruption/loss, TCP will arrange retransmissions as long as the TCP connections is maintained. If the retransmission can occur such that

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread PhilNYC
nicketynick;175779 Wrote: I knew there was something missing in my system Anybody know where I can get the audiophile-approved ones? No less than $1000 please. :-P Give me a call. I'll sell you some for a lot more if I can sneak one away from my kids... ;-) -- PhilNYC Sonic

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
P Floding;175883 Wrote: No, because it is not overlaid. It is correlated. You don't get similar noise from your described methods. If you have a separate DAC you can test for yourself with various transports. Yes exactly...and correlated jitter doesn't equal noise it equals odd things

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread Phil Leigh
P Floding;175755 Wrote: That was good fun reading! That was almost the most fun I've had with all of my clothes on...almost. -- Phil Leigh Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread sfraser
bpa;175886 Wrote: I think a 50msec changeover is a bit irrelevant to a TCP connections as long as the basic comms link stays up. If there is a glitch which results in packet corruption/loss, TCP will arrange retransmissions as long as the TCP connections is maintained. If the retransmission

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread Triode
Buffer size is implemented in the player firmware and is not user adjustable I'm afraid. -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
P Floding;175883 Wrote: No, because it is not overlaid. It is correlated. You don't get similar noise from your described methods. OK, I guess that wasn't my last post... Take the actual waveform, subtract the ideal, and that's the noise spectrum (or distortion, or choose whatever term you

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread Skunk
Does the winamp streaming method use the buffer in a different way? I thought there was a way to do real-time PC sounds through a squeezebox, but have never used it. Apologies if I'm way off base. -- Skunk Skunk's

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread bpa
The original Slimdevices SLiMP3 device used UDP and there are some software emulators for it on Linux (e.g. slimp3slave) but I've no idea whether the emulator still works nor the buffer size. There are still slimp3 users using current version of slimserver so if you still want an UDP stream

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175906 Wrote: OK, I guess that wasn't my last post... Take the actual waveform, subtract the ideal, and that's the noise spectrum (or distortion, or choose whatever term you prefer - from now on I'll refer to it as noise). Because everything here is linear, you can think of the

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread opaqueice
That's a good point - that hadn't occurred to me. EMI in the range from 20kHz - 40kHz would be inaudible added to the analogue output, but jitter at that frequency could intermodulate with the digital signal to produce audible distortion. For example 25kHz jitter can produce 10kHz noise when a

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: plug and play linear supply (part 2)

2007-01-30 Thread P Floding
opaqueice;175930 Wrote: That's a good point - that hadn't occurred to me. EMI in the range from 20kHz - 40kHz would be inaudible added to the analogue output, but jitter at that frequency could intermodulate with the digital signal to produce audible distortion. For example 25kHz jitter

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Active 2.1 speaker system suggestions, anyone?

2007-01-30 Thread florca
Superfi list custom wall-mount brackets as an option on their product page: http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/page/moreinfo.cfm/Product_ID/2543 Brgds Phil -- florca florca's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lanctot
jhm731;175588 Wrote: You and opaqueice need to go down to your local Costco and pick up a $50. DVDP. The SB2 and SB3 sound much, much better than a $50 DVD player - and I did a comparison, see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19240 Not only that, but it's really apples and

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread PhilNYC
Mark Lanctot;175946 Wrote: The SB2 and SB3 sound much, much better than a $50 DVD player I think it depends. Compared to a $150 Pioneer DV-563A, I think the SB2/SB3 sounds significantly better. Compared to a $50 Toshiba 3950, I think the performance is comparable. (above comparisons are of

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Can anyone recommend a tube amp simpatico with SB3

2007-01-30 Thread halibut
I have a 3 year old Jolida 202 amp driving some BW 803 speakers. I found that the move to tubes really got rid of some of the harshness associated with CDs and now with the Squeezebox (digital sources). Sure you can spend lots on DACs with great analog sections and jitter free clocks but for

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lanctot
PhilNYC;175954 Wrote: I think it depends. Compared to a $150 Pioneer DV-563A, I think the SB2/SB3 sounds significantly better. Compared to a $50 Toshiba 3950, I think the performance is comparable. (above comparisons are of the analog-outs). SB2/SB3 digital-outs are better than both of

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread PhilNYC
Btw - I forgot to mention that my Toshiba 3950 broke after 5 months...(the Pioneer is still going strong after 2 years of casual use)... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com PhilNYC's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread jhm731
Mark- For sound quality, try a Toshiba SD-3990. I have an SB3 with a linear psu. I haven't heard the Transporter. I don't work for a SB competitor. Have a nice day.;-) -- jhm731 jhm731's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Audiophile shops

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lanctot
jhm731;175963 Wrote: Mark- For sound quality, try a Toshiba SD-3990. I have an SB3 with a linear psu. I haven't heard the Transporter. I don't work for a SB competitor. Have a nice day.;-) OK. I can accept that. As long as you own or have at least tried the product, you are

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone heard the SB+?

2007-01-30 Thread musicheadhunter
Well, this is my first post, but I feel obligated to respond. I picked-up an SB+ from Patrick a couple of weeks ago to round out my upgraded system. Patrick was nice enough to make one for me in record time, even with my specially ordered maple sides. My system consists of the SB+, Nac 202,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lanctot
Most of this thread is above my head, so I may be out of my element here, but if you want to limit the buffer capacity on the SB3, the highest bitrate stream you can send it is 24 bit/48 kHz WAV. The buffer will be as limited as possible. If you had a Transporter you could stream 24 bit/96 kHz

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread seanadams
I think you are asking the wrong question here because you are confused about how TCP and buffering work. Case in point, it took me a moment to figure out that by m/s you meant milliseconds and not meters per second! Anyway, a 50ms delay is absolutely mice nuts. On wireless we routinely deal

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Olsen
And some more words of wisdom about what's important in sound quality: http://www.biline.ca/critic1.htm -- Ron Olsen Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread Listener
seanadams;176002 Wrote: Anyway, a 50ms delay is absolutely mice nuts. About 24 years ago, I worked with a guy who often referred to something insignificant as mouse nuts. I never understood whether it referred to the mouse's food or his anatomy. Do you know? This unanswered question has

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Carroll
Ron, www.biline.ca was the guy that arranged for many of the Audio Critic back issues to be posted on the web zine. Your URL is essentially a reprint of a backissue prior to the backissues going up. If you liked that article, check out many more like it at www.theaudiocritic.com/cwo/Back_Issues

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Buffering on the SB3

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Carroll
seanadams;176002 Wrote: Is there an alternative failure mode (for example a competing product which does not recover as quickly), where you would like to show that streaming does not perform as well? If you could describe what that failure looks like, maybe we could suggest a test to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter on the cover of Stereophile, Feb 2007 issue

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Olsen
Thanks for the link, Eric. Lots of interesting stuff in these back issues that resonates with my own sense of what's important and what's not. -- Ron Olsen Ron Olsen's Profile:

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