Skunk;181802 Wrote:
Not personally, but zip cord is compared to some other cables here:
http://sound.westhost.com/cable-z.htm .
For the lazy, the difference is deemed inaudible, and expensive cables
a (dubious) pleasure.
I actually read this. :)
My understanding of what it says is the
While you are listening you may want to try the SB analog outputs. To
start, I would compare the SB DAC with analog out to the DAC in the
TGP-5. You might find that you like one of those enough not to bother
with another DAC.
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jeffmeh
mmg_fan;181840 Wrote:
Hi
has anyone tried the pacific Valve mods for the Lite DAC?
Just wondering if its worth the extra $$
http://www.pacificvalve.us/LTDAC60M.html
I just received my DAC 60 with the Pacific Valve mods (the midline
version, not the DAC 62) yesterday. So far it sounds
325xi;181909 Wrote:
Is it enough to conclude that ALL cables that cost more then $1/m are
worse then a lamp cord?
What are you paying for, beyond the possibility of oscillation, with an
expensive cable? Is it noise rejection, or an attempt to synergize with
the amp?
I think most of the
Skunk;181916 Wrote:
What are you paying for, beyond the possibility of oscillation, with an
expensive cable? Is it noise rejection, or an attempt to synergize with
the amp?
I don't want to pay for expensive cable, I want to pay for a good
cable. Transparency is a goal.
Skunk;181916 Wrote:
I've used some JJ's (former Teslas) on mine and didn't like the sound. A
little congested. Perhaps they needed further break-in.
The Amperex JAN 7308s were great but one of them was noisy so I
returned them to Kevin Deal.
I'm getting a pair of very expensive Siemens CCa's instead. Can't wait
to
Skunk;181916 Wrote:
I do think it's worthwhile to eliminate the binding post and spades, but
can't say whether I can hear a difference.
Skunk,
I am just going through this myself and trying to decide about bare
wire on posts, spades, bananna jacks for one of my systems. What's the
rationale
Skunk;180355 Wrote:
If you want to speed your workflow, you can always do burst mode (using
TEST AND COPY) in EAC, and rely on the accurate rip database...
Funny, last night I decided to try the rw cd drive instead of the 52X
cd read only drive. After feeding it an Accuraterip key disc, I
As someone who works at frequencies in the Gigahertz I have a hard time
believing cables can make a difference way down in the audio range -
except for two things. One is, as mentioned, there can be a mismatch
between components. It is not exactly a field where every company
conforms to
I'm a bit late to this thread but do have some experience with magnet
wire. My employer manufactures electrical coils and you'd be surprised
at the way the coil winders handle the magnet wire without damaging the
enamel. It's pretty tough stuff but it does have it's limitations.
A quick look
Eric Carroll;181931 Wrote:
Skunk,
I am just going through this myself and trying to decide about bare
wire on posts, spades, bananna jacks for one of my systems. What's the
rationale for one over the other? Any web sites on this? Obviously a
secure connection is critical - don't want any
Did not really compare via the speakers, did it via headphones only. I
will try some different music later.
Yes, the Philips is really good, for the money.
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Anne
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I think this is what dbPowerAmp does. It rips fast, checks AccurateRip
then, and only if it's not OK it goes for more severe measures. The
good thing is - all this happens automatically.
My only problem with AccurateRip is that I expect too many of my CDs
not to be there.
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325xi
simaudio
If you don't hear a difference over headphones, you're extremely
unlikely to through speakers. If you move your listening position
slightly you will hear a different frequency response from speakers due
to room nodes etc. If you hear a difference through speakers but not
through headphones it's
opaqueice;181953 Wrote:
If you don't hear a difference over headphones, you're extremely
unlikely to through speakers. If you move your listening position
slightly you will hear a different frequency response from speakers due
to room nodes etc. If you hear a difference through speakers
P Floding;181966 Wrote:
Calling that a truth is a bit rich.
Have you ABX:ed enough source components to make such a statement?
Personally, no, but many others have. Anyway the blanket statement
that all DACs sound the same under all circumstances is certainly not
true. What does seem to be
opaqueice;181979 Wrote:
Personally, no, but many others have. Anyway the blanket statement that
all DACs sound the same under all circumstances is certainly not true.
What does seem to be true is that modern, well-designed DACs operating
under fair circumstances (like no big impedence
I am using a SB3 - Lavry DA10 - Integrated Amp.
Now what settings do you people, who use a setup like mine, in terms of
volume settings ? I recall seeing people seem to have it at max in the
SB ?
Cheers
--
thingfish
Even downsampled to 44.1 (using Audacity) these Linn 24-bit files sound
fantastic.
--
Phil Leigh
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View this thread:
P Floding;181966 Wrote:
Have you ABX:ed enough source components to make such a statement?
That's cute ;)
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ezkcdude
DIY projects page:
http://www.ezdiyaudio.com
System:
SB3-EZDAC-MIT Terminator 2 interconnects-Endler Audio 24-step
Attenuators (RCA-direct)-Parasound Halo A23 125W/ch
kcl;181809 Wrote:
1) Squeezebox to a to-be-determined DAC.
2) Transporter.
3) Squeezebox to the TGP-5.
I have two of three configs you mention:
1) SB3 analog to power amp
2) SB3 analog digital to HT
3) Transporter analog to power amp
Since you are getting the TGP-5, I would recommend a
I am very interested in the Linn 24 bit material. However, I am
committed to FLAC for long term use. Could someone point me in the
right direction on how to go about converting WMA to FLAC? URL
references are fine.
Is the Linn WMA stuff DRMed in any way?
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Eric Carroll
Transporter-Bryston
Given you have an integrated amp, you have a volume control. I assume
you have the SB3 connected digitally to the DAC...
The consensus is that you should preferentially use the analog volume
control if possible. This means setting SB3 to full volume on the
digital output side. Similarly on the
Eric Carroll;182010 Wrote:
I am very interested in the Linn 24 bit material. However, I am
committed to FLAC for long term use. Could someone point me in the
right direction on how to go about converting WMA to FLAC? URL
references are fine.
Is the Linn WMA stuff DRMed in any way?
The
Phil Leigh;182014 Wrote:
The Linn is not DRM-d!
I used the Microsoft utility (WMA2LPCM) to convert the 88.2/24-bit WMA
to WAV and then Audacity to 44.1 24-bit WAV. Then I used the FLAC
front-end to create a 24-bit 44.1 FLAC. A bit long-winded but worked
fine...
I use wmal2pcm to create
Correct, it's an integrated amp. I connect the SB3 to the lavry with a
toslink. I have set the volume setting in the SB3 to MAX ( 100 ) and
the lavry to 40. Do you mean I should max the lavry too ?
Eric Carroll;182012 Wrote:
Given you have an integrated amp, you have a volume control. I
I am not very familiar with the Lavry, so I am assuming here its volume
control is in the digital domain and not analog. Assuming its volume is
digital, yes, I would suggest maxing the DAC volume too and use the
integrated amp control.
The rationale is if you have an integrated amp, then do all
one question (extracted from the ebay auction of the silver
transporter):
With a Transporter, you can also upsample your source files to 96khz,
which is improvement again.
how can this be done???
cheers
mike
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truckfighters
Transporter - REDGUM RGASIL - REDGUM RGi120ENR AMP - REDGUM LS
Eric Carroll;182003 Wrote:
Did you look at the Anthem Statement D2 in comparison to the TGP-5? Just
curious.Yes I did, and I was very impressed with it. I might even say I liked
it
a little better than the TGP-5. However, I really, really liked the
Sunfire TGA 7x400 amp on the Summits I was
I can change the voulme on the amp with remote so that works fine, thank
you. Setting the lavry much higher than around 40 seem to be to high
though but at 40 its ok so I leave it around there.
Another question ( sorry ). What is the difference, if any, in setting
the volume to digital output
read this somewhere:
With a Transporter, you can also upsample your source files to 96khz,
which is an improvement again.
is this true and if yes - how do I setup slimserver to do that?
thank up front!
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truckfighters
Transporter - REDGUM RGASIL - REDGUM RGi120ENR AMP - REDGUM LS Cable
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The Lavry has a precision 1dB stepped analog volume control.
Lavry recommend volume set to 46 if using unbalanced connection to amp.
This is supposed to equate to standard 2V output of a CD player.
David
SB3LavryDA10Cyrus 8VS
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DaveWr
i did the upsampling to 96 with audacity, but with straight wav
files...
they now play fine in transporter...
no problem to convert them into flac now...
make sure you check out all the settings in audacity first (high
quality sampling with 32bit floating integers and so on...)
wav export
yes you'll probably be right there.
but resampling a 24 bit 88.2 kHz source up to 24 bit 96 kHz with all
the features on (high quality sampling and 32 bit floating integer
for calculations), I assume that the target file is at least sounding
the same as the source.
may be just a little bit
truckfighters;182067 Wrote:
there are those dithering algorythms which guess the missing bits and
calculate the (speaking of 88.2 kHz source!) very tiny, missing
spaces...
The reason why I'm asking is that I remember that some older DSP
algorithms usually did more harm then good, and the word
Looks like this issue deserves a dedicated thread...
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325xi
simaudio nova cdp simaudio moon i-5 revel performa m20 via
acoustic zen matrix reference ii and acoustic zen satori
-planned additions:... deq2496 lavry da-10 ...-
jdbaker;181977 Wrote:
Anne,
My SB3 feeding the B-100 with the DAC and PSB Platinum T6 speakers is
my dream system. If you go that way I would love to hear how that
sounds. In my home office system I have my SB3 analog to my Arcam A32
using very nice Z squared copper interconnects and
Phil Leigh;181986 Wrote:
Even downsampled to 44.1 (using Audacity) these Linn 24-bit files sound
fantastic.
Agree completely. These are great audiophile grade recordings.
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Ben Diss
'SB3' (http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html) - 'Lavry DA10'
It would be nice if this really worked as I'd hoped for.
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jmourik;181558 Wrote:
I'd say with the TP being able to handle 96/24, wmadec should be able to
handle it too :-)
Enhancement request created: bug 4774 (
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4774 )
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jmourik
Skunk;182064 Wrote:
Must be a large company to afford equipment like that!
Yes, that's, like.. 50 pounds! Wow..
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P Floding
No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if
you ask me.)
P
After using the stock power supply cord for the SB3 with ferrite chokers
for 1 month; I recently switched to the Welborne supply with the
removable cord option. I promptly switched the supplied cord to an LAT
International AC2 cord. I noted radio transmissions/noise into my Rega
P3/Dynavector
Probably best to contact Welborne Labs tech support. I don't think
they/he/she post here.
Maybe a separate power filter would isolate the vinyl equipment, but
I'm dying to ask: Does the Welborne power supply sound bad with a stock
cord to begin with? I can understand compulsive tweaking, but
bobschneider;181831 Wrote:
Same here, now that I have my Li Te DAC-60. Using 88kHz FLAC files, SB3
shows 88.2kHz, DAC shows 44.1kHz, and the music is at half speed from
either the DAC or the SB3's analog outputs.
I'll get the 88kHz WAV files scanned back in, and see how those work
with
Well, the Arcam cd72 is a very respectable cd player isnt it ?
I am a bit surpriced that you find the SB3 better, but well, its about
personal taste.
I wrote my comment because I was a bit embarrassed, in the beginning I
was overjoyed by the SB3, thought it sounded much better than my 963SA,
I
Anne;182089 Wrote:
Well, the Arcam cd72 is a very respectable cd player isnt it ?
I am a bit surpriced that you find the SB3 better, but well, its about
personal taste.
I wrote my comment because I was a bit embarrassed, in the beginning I
was overjoyed by the SB3, thought it sounded much
DaveWr;182055 Wrote:
Lavry recommend volume set to 46 if using unbalanced connection to amp.
This is supposed to equate to standard 2V output of a CD player.
Dave,
Just for information, what does this represent in terms of dB Full
Scale on the Lavry? In other words, if 46 is 2Vrms what is
jdbaker;182127 Wrote:
Anne;182089 Wrote:
Well, the Arcam cd72 is a very respectable cd player isnt it ?
I am a bit surpriced that you find the SB3 better, but well, its about
personal taste.
I wrote my comment because I was a bit embarrassed, in the beginning I
was overjoyed by
truckfighters;182052 Wrote:
read this somewhere:
With a Transporter, you can also upsample your source files to 96khz,
which is an improvement again.
is this true and if yes - how do I setup slimserver to do that?
thank up front!
I don't believe there is any reason to think this is
I started a thread 'here'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32951) about the Linn
Records studio masters. If people could post there experiences there,
maybe we could make a wiki page on how to get this 24 bit sources to
work.
--
Eric Carroll
Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm
devin;182148 Wrote:
I don't believe there is any reason to think this is true.
Upsampling will not add information that was not there to begin with.
Playing the samples back at the same sampling frequency they were
recorded at will produced the cleanest and best signal as far as I can
happy;182141 Wrote:
jdbaker;182127 Wrote:
Just out of curiosity Is you SB modded or and what power supply do you
use?
Stock SB3 and power supply.
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jdbaker
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ezkcdude;182151 Wrote:
AFAIK, the single advantage (theoretically, at least) of upsampling is
to lessen the harmful effects of digital brickwall filters of modern
DAC chips.
Ok, well let me go look into that.
But the fact remains that to upsample you have to interpolate, and if
there is
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