The Smokester;185068 Wrote:
Veggen,
I had similar problems. I emailed their customer service with my order
number. They immediately allowed me direct access to (a part of) their
server for 24 hours to download. This solved the problem.
So, I suggest giving customer service a try.
Hi, look
agentsmith;185089 Wrote:
However, I encountered the exact same symptons, the files all started
dropping off consistently at certain spots, tried different connection
methods and all that. This time I also tried to uncompress into WAV
files with exact same results.
What did you use for your
Eric Carroll;185071 Wrote:
So how do people find the quality of the transfers?
IMHO, they simply sound just great.
Download the Saint-Saens free sampler and decide for yourself. I have
heard 3 different recordings of this piece, including one sacd, and the
HDTT version is the best.
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regalma1;184943 Wrote:
Why not make a connection to your receiver from your USB port. You can
either buy an external DAC or you could get a USB to SPDIF convertor
(coax or Toslink, either is dirt cheap compared to a good DAC).
It can't be that simple. Don't you have to install special
egd;185099 Wrote:
Unless I've misunderstood or missed something, anything other than 100%
volume through the SB3 or Transporter results in a lossy audio signal
being sent to the speakers, which would for all intents and purposes
negate the need for a Transporter and/or ATC monitors, not so?
cliveb;185148 Wrote:
You've misunderstood. The digital volume control in the SB and
Transporter operates at 24 bit resolution, while the source files
(ripped from CD) are 16 bit. Any volume attenuation up to -30dB is
arranged such that not one single bit is lost in the signal that is
sent
cliveb;185148 Wrote:
You've misunderstood...
Thanks for clarifying this, I'd seen some posts in the past and seemed
to recall anything below 100% resulted in discarding data,. I
obviously need to revisit this for myself.
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Eric Carroll;185053 Wrote:
But from my perspective, Olav's work seems pretty conclusive. He
compared a 16b rip, a HDCD 24b capture and a digitized HDCD analog
decode. Can you help us understand what your concern is here? Have we
missed something?
I don't mean to belittle what Olav has
Thanks for all this guys. The nice people at Loud Clear in Edinburgh
are going to lend me some Chord Cobra 3 and I'll take it from there.
All I'm waiting for now is for the Transporter to arrive!
Jeremy
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Phil Leigh wrote:
Olav - very interesting. A couple of thoughts:
1) I'd expect the WAV file sizes to be similar as that is a function of
the track length and bit-depth rather than musical content.
I agree with you on the WAV file size, but I mentioned it as an
additional indication that
So, the wife was out and the baby asleep last night, and I got a chance
to do a more extended listen. Each amp swap was a few minutes of
messing around with cables, so it was less than ideal. All my
impressions were long gone from my short-term memory by the time I got
to listen to the other
jhm731;184621 Wrote:
I never claimed to have special hearing ability. I don't know what's
causing the SQ differences I'm hearing.
Some people seem to overestimate their abilities... You sincerely
believe that what you hear is always there? May I suggest you to
educate yourself, take this easy
Eric Carroll wrote:
Olav Sunde;184908 Wrote:
I've finally managed to do the comparison!
This is great work and much appreciated.
This sure looks like it worked to me.
I think it tells us two things:
- WMP10 really does successfully decode HDCD
- some HDCDs really don't use all the
325xi;185211 Wrote:
You sincerely believe that what you hear is always there?
Do you ABX two apples before taking a bite, to make sure one is not an
illusion?
OTOH, I thought it was common knowledge that reality is based on
perception. Is a color blind person not part of the 'real world'?
325xi;185211 Wrote:
1. Some people seem to overestimate their abilities... You sincerely
believe that what you hear is always there?
2. May I suggest you to educate yourself, take this easy reading first:
Brain Maps Perceptions, Not Reality
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Don't worry, I agree it is not an absolute test I've done in any way. I
believe it is useful in trying to find out what the MS decoder does, but
we really need to look at the code or talk to someone who knows what
functionality is included to be certain.
Nikhil wrote:
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Eric Carroll;185070 Wrote:
Mark, are you aware of 'hydrogenaudio.org'
(http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=idx)? There is lots
of activity and interest over there on DBT software tools to support
such.
There are freely available DBT tools for Unix and Windows currently
mudlark;182297 Wrote:
I have it on faultless authority that it is possible to rip HDCD discs,
but all you would gain is, hopefully, a good engineer who didn't use
compression or set levels too high. The extra info is only available in
the hardware and doesn't as far as i know exit via the
Eric Carroll;185079 Wrote:
I assume this means London On... Hi neighbour!
Hi Eric!
Yup...it would be kinda hard for you to drive to the original London
and even if you could, you couldn't do it in 2 hours. :-)
I know Dennon implements HDCD in the receiver for some of the later
models.
I don't use podcasts so I wouldn't know, but you may get more responses
in another Slim Devices forum.
I'm guessing that many of those that post in this forum don't listen to
Internet content.
Please don't take offence at this (someone else did as they considered
themselves an audiophile and
Just received the April 2007 issue of Hi-Fi News and they are reviewing
the Slim Devices Transporter this month.
They give it a rating of 17 out of 20.
Five stars for features,
three stars for sound quality,
five stars for build quality
and four stars for value for money.
The overall
Pardon my french but this is a typical british review ! Read the loads
of other reviews, especially the one from Stereophile instead.
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Skunk;185225 Wrote:
Do you ABX two apples before taking a bite, to make sure one is not an
illusion?
OTOH, I thought it was common knowledge that reality is based on
perception. Is a color blind person not part of the 'real world'?
Hey, I was serious this time! :)
Not sure if it's part
The notion that s/pdif from a CD source could better than local playback
is absurd. They don't seem to understand how the thing works. Typical
neophobia. :(
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In my opinion reviews based on someone's subjective impressions of audio
quality are totally meaningless. On the other hand it sounds as though
the parts of the review which are more objective (build quality etc.)
are quite positive.
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The fact that somebody would use Black Sabbath to do any kind of audio
comparison seriously undermines their credibility.
Comparing S/PDIF and wireless without even mentioning the source of
S/PDIF probably means that they are confused between computer
networking and using digital soundcard
Anne;185287 Wrote:
Pardon my french but this is a typical british review ! Read the loads
of other reviews, especially the one from Stereophile instead.
I've always valued British audio reviews over most others. Many of the
British magazine reviews I've read over the years seem very
I'm really curious to hear objectivists opinion on this:
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/cables/messages/127754.html
(Not about listening tests, but about no-so-simple cable designs)
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simaudio nova cdp simaudio moon i-5 revel performa m20 via
acoustic zen matrix reference ii and
I had my ELAs driven by the T amp for a few weeks. It wasn't too bad
actually but I never played at loud volumes.
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