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Phil Leigh;186468 Wrote:
Hmmm - this noise would appear not to trouble the many Lavry fans so I
wonder why not? Maybe it is effectively filtered out elsewhere? (I know
prevention is better than cure but...)
Sorry, I never meant to imply that the DA10 doesn't sound good. I've
never heard one,
Anybody has internal pics of the Benchmark?
Given the small footprint and low profile chassis, I suspect it also
has a switching power supply.
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Lite Audio DAC-60 Tube DAC
VPI Scout with Benz Micro Glider M2
Audio Research PH3, SP16L and VS110
Is there a way to go back to 6.5.0? I can't find it on their web site.
I also find 6.5.2 generally a little unreliable - stops at the end of
tracks, and occassionally stutters in tracks too. I had previously put
it all down to my setup, not that anything signifciant had changed.
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325xi;186512 Wrote:
To summarise the overwhelming response - Toslink works according to
specification, which no inherent production flaws, so there's no reason
to avoid it, or even better, use coax only when Toslink isn't available.
I didn't miss anything, right?
Toslink works by shining an
I'm thinking about getting a Transporter to use with a Sonos ZP80. The
plan is to use a Sonos hanheld controller and the ZP80 will output
digital signal to the digital in on the Transporter. The Transporter
is mainly going to be used as an external DAC (and potentially as a
player for non-16bit
clar2391;186565 Wrote:
I'd like one that is relatively cheap and that's plug-and-play. Does
such a thing exist?
Try searching the forums.
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sting;186663 Wrote:
I'm thinking about getting a Transporter to use with a Sonos ZP80. The
plan is to use a Sonos hanheld controller and the ZP80 will output
digital signal to the digital in on the Transporter. The Transporter
is mainly going to be used as an external DAC (and potentially
CardinalFang;186667 Wrote:
If you prefer the Sonos remote, then to me it would make more sense to
buy a ZP80 and a good external DAC, like the Lavry, Benchmark or any of
the others recommended in these threads. Alternately, have a look at the
Nokia 770/800 as a remote control for the
sting;186669 Wrote:
Stereophile review on Transporter said that Transporter alone was better
than SB3/DAC combination so I'm interested in the DAC inside the
Transporter. I wonder if adding a Sonos ZP80 frond-end (hence one
additional digital connection between the ZP80 and the Transporter)
sting;186669 Wrote:
Are there flaws for such combination (Sonos ZP80 plus Transporter)? I
really like the multi-room feature of the Sonos.
I don't have a Transporter, but in my opinion you fit the target market
of slim devices perfectly.
You can have the multi-room capability, like
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32231
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AndyC_772;186654 Wrote:
The connector in an optical cable doesn't really make any difference -
it's just a mechanical thing designed to hold the fibre in place so
that the light coming out of the end shines onto the phototransistor.
With all due respect.. The cheap one that came with my
Hi all
My main amp is a tact millenium .
when i use the transporter as an transport into the emillennium the
sound i get is very close to perfect .
its no contest vs the ice amp wich is a moddified version of the
asp1000 modul with a much larger power supply.
But what i do like about the
The free one that came with my PlayStation 2 clicks very positively into
place - I assumed that would represent about the cheapest component
available. The ability of consumer electronics manufacturers to shave a
penny or two off a product never ceases to amaze me.
Let me revise my assertion:
AndyC_772;186694 Wrote:
The ability of consumer electronics manufacturers to shave a penny or
two off a product never ceases to amaze me.
Yeah it kind of makes one wonder what's been shaved inside the box.
Thanks for the info, looks like I should try a different cheap one.
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Does it happen when you transcode to WAV? See
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pablolie;186611 Wrote:
So don't even drive the car, just stick to brand dogma?? :-)
Dude, may I say you drive me crazy? Do you really see only blacks and
whites? I just say your so beloved empirical methods ARE necessary as a
part of the whole, but not when used alone. A mere audition what
AndyC_772;186654 Wrote:
Therefore, it is not unlikely that jitter at the input to the clock
recovery circuit will be worse, and that in turn may mean that jitter
at the DAC chip (where it matters) is also worse.
Oops, here we go again! So, Andy, what's your conclusion here - Toslink
is more
In my system the TP sounds much better as a self contained unit.
When fed from a transport or a SB the sound was not as good.
I tried this through a 600.00 coax cable and a glass fiber tosslink.
This may be due to flaws in the spdif interface.
If you want to use the Sonos you might be better
325xi;186710 Wrote:
Oops, here we go again! So, Andy, what's your conclusion here - Toslink
is more prone to jitter related problems then coax?
Forgive me for side-stepping the question, but I think it would be
pointless to guess without making some quantitative measurements on the
electrical
AndyC_772;186717 Wrote:
... an opto-isolator designed to pass data at a couple of Mbits
typically has rather slow rising edges on its output, because of the
passive pull-up used to bring the output to a logic '1' in the absence
of light from the LED. This would inherently tend to increase
Apologies to those for whom this is old news, but clearly anyone with a
Slim Device needs a FatMan (valve) amplifier:
http://www.fat-man.co.uk/docs/product/itube_402_1.htm
The next Logitech acquisition surely? :)
Adam
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SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX,
Having followed this thread, I am definitely more jittery than when I
started. A purely subjective observation, YMMV.
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dagordon;183721 Wrote:
Just wanted to add a strong vote for the Citypulse DAC.
I'm using a Citypulse with TCXO upgrade with a SB3, and the results are
impressive. I was VERY skeptical upon first hearing it -- it sounded
very digital, and not as resolving as the SB3's analog outs.
But
tomjtx;186716 Wrote:
In my system the TP sounds much better as a self contained unit.
When fed from a transport or a SB the sound was not as good.
I tried this through a 600.00 coax cable and a glass fiber tosslink.
This may be due to flaws in the spdif interface.
If you want to use the
Whichever is subject to more jitter, unless you have an extremely
revealing system, very good speakers, a room with good acoustics, and
some very keen ears, it is likely to be negligible.
If you possess all of the above, I'm envious, lol.
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sting;186749 Wrote:
I take it that the Transporter is not considered a jitter rejecting
DAC?
Do you use one remote for multi-room control?
Thanks.
I don't know if it is jitter rejecting but it sound a lot better when
using it wi fi.
I use my macbook from all rooms but the Nokia would
jeffmeh;186751 Wrote:
Whichever is subject to more jitter, unless you have an extremely
revealing system, very good speakers, a room with good acoustics, and
some very keen ears, it is likely to be negligible.
If you possess all of the above, I'm envious, lol.
The original question was
325xi;186709 Wrote:
Dude, may I say you drive me crazy? Do you really see only blacks and
whites? I just say your so beloved empirical methods ARE necessary as a
part of the whole, but not when used alone. A mere audition when taken
out of context proves nothing. But add it to other ways to
jeffmeh;186751 Wrote:
Whichever is subject to more jitter, unless you have an extremely
revealing system, very good speakers, a room with good acoustics, and
some very keen ears, it is likely to be negligible.
If you possess all of the above, I'm envious, lol.
Funnily enough, that's
pablolie;186759 Wrote:
First of all, I was clearly kidding.
Please accept my sincere apologies then. :)
pablolie;186759 Wrote:
Second of all, you must confuse me with someone else when it comes to
the so beloved empirical methods. I actually have a very pragmatic
approach when it comes to
AndyC_772;186765 Wrote:
Funnily enough, that's exactly what I thought about a year ago, when I
confidently ditched my (early, and rather expensive) DVD player in
favour of a cheap DVD recorder. I figured that all digitally connected
sources should sound the same, and therefore, that I could
Thank you all for your help. I have just placed an order for a
Transporter and will pick it up at Slim Devices this afternoon. I plan
to first check out the Transporter before worrying about which remote
to use, although I really like the Sonos.
In your opinion, what's the best analog port
I have one of these http://www.tascam.com/Products/hdp2.html and LOVE
IT. It is PRO quality (better than audiophile, IMHO) as it will record
up to 192kHz/24-bit on CompactFlash. Built-in phantom power for
condenser mics, mic soft-limiting, external wordclock and video sync
capabilities as well
I just got back from a long vacation to Kona, Hawaii. I'll try to spend
some time doing this and let you know.
Even if there is 'some' degradation taking the analog out of my Pioneer
Elite DV-47A player, I'm starting with a 24-bit source and keeping it
24-bit through high-quality DA/AD
I'd like to change the title of the main Slimserver home page from
SlimServer to something else. Anyone know how I can do thi?. I thought
is would be as simple as changeing the metatag for index.html but it's
not.
Yeah, I know... I've asked this before and received the answer... but I
can't find
sting;186779 Wrote:
Thank you all for your help. I have just placed an order for a
Transporter and will pick it up at Slim Devices this afternoon. I plan
to first check out the Transporter before worrying about which remote
to use, although I really like the Sonos.
In your opinion,
gobikey;186742 Wrote:
I have a Paradisea with the SB3, Krell amp, Vienna Acoustics Speakers.
I'm not going to exaggerate. With A-B testing between the SB3 DAC and
the Paradisea, the average listener would not notice the difference.
To me, the biggest difference is with the lower
tomjtx;186797 Wrote:
If your pre amp is balanced, I find the balanced (xlr) outs to sound
better in my system
Do you have recommendation for the brands of the XLR cable? I presume
that high quality cables are critical in the analog world. Yes, my
pre-amp is balanced.
Thanks.
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ModelCitizen;186789 Wrote:
I'd like to change the title of the main Slimserver home page from
SlimServer to something else. Anyone know how I can do thi?. I thought
is would be as simple as changeing the metatag for index.html but it's
not.
Yeah, I know... I've asked this before and
dlite;186583 Wrote:
Personally I think just about any tube adds distortion to the signal not
musicality. Good music should not need to be smeared by a tube to sound
good. Just my opinion.
And what makes you think that 'smearing' (lack of resolution?)
originates with the cathode follower
Well I hacked around awhile and came up w/ something different than
Jim.
In C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\HTML\EN\standardheader.html
I changed:
title [% IF pagetitle %][% pagetitle -%][% ELSE %][% Slimserver |
string %][% END -%] /title
TO: title New and Improved Title /title
Should
325,
Would using something like the Benchmark Dac1 with a USB input get
around your concerns? You are correct, the mac mini is nothing more
than a lapop system crammed into a desktop box and i'm not up on its
insides either. I'm going to do some experimenting but may try to look
more into the
sting;186800 Wrote:
Do you have recommendation for the brands of the XLR cable? I presume
that high quality cables are critical in the analog world. Yes, my
pre-amp is balanced.
Thanks.
Because it's balanced, it will matter even less than it matters for
unbalanced. I would goto guitar
khedspeth;186815 Wrote:
325,
Would using something like the Benchmark Dac1 with a USB input get
around your concerns? You are correct, the mac mini is nothing more
than a lapop system crammed into a desktop box and i'm not up on its
insides either. I'm going to do some experimenting but
Cheers both,
but loved this:
SlimServer is scanning your music library. Chill out.
:-)
MC
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jeffmeh;186773 Wrote:
Actually, I was not referring to the differences between different
sources, but between the same source connected via coax vs. toslink.
Two different connection methods are comparable to two different
sources. If one of the cases can sound different, so can the other.
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More testing and I still can't tell which I prefer. However, I just
played with Audacity to subtract an encoded/decoded MP3 waveform from
the original WAV, so what's left should be the differences. I have two
30-second FLAC examples of the same piece, one the difference between
320Kbps CBR and
joatca;186844 Wrote:
More testing and I still can't tell which I prefer. However, I just
played with Audacity to subtract an encoded/decoded MP3 waveform from
the original WAV, so what's left should be the differences. I have two
30-second FLAC examples of the same piece, one the difference
P Floding;186832 Wrote:
Two different connection methods are comparable to two different
sources. If one of the cases can sound different, so can the other.
Of course they can, but I will stand by my point. It is negligible
without a highly revealing combination of system, room, speakers,
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jeffmeh;186851 Wrote:
Of course they can, but I will stand by my point. It is negligible
without a highly revealing combination of system, room, speakers, and
ears. It is probably negligible in most cases even where such a
combination exists.
Not sure it has to be a very accurate system -
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I've tried every permutation. Makes no difference.
Mark Lanctot;186704 Wrote:
Does it happen when you transcode to WAV? See
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33190page=2
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