Due to a new baby in the house:
Transporter - via XLR Balanced Interconnects - HeadRoom Max Balanced
Amp (no DAC) - AKG 701s, (recabled into balanced configuration).
What I don't listen to much these days:
Bolder-modded SB3 + modded Elpac PS - Bryston BP25DA - Bryston 4B SST
- Watt Puppy 7s.
gregeas;190743 Wrote:
My main issue with using the Transporter as a digital pre-pro is its
user friendliness for the family -- ideally the digital inputs could be
custom labeled DVD and Cable, etc. I don't have a problem using it
as is, but my wife would.
You can do this, by editing the
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opaqueice, because he was really 'getting on my tits', to use a good
old English expression! If we all ignore him he may go away and
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afblaster;190797 Wrote:
Thanks to JJZolxss tip I have taken the option to hide all posts by
opaqueice, because he was really 'getting on my tits', to use a good
old English expression! If we all ignore him he may go away and
irritate people elsewhere.
It's good being British - I find it
adamslim;190800 Wrote:
It's good being British - I find it very easy to enjoy the obvious
incredulity when people reply to O's posts: you -really- think that?.
View him as the court jester and he's good fun!
At your service, m'lord - it's pretty entertaining for me too ;-).
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Sure wish this post was about Inexpensive Linear Power Supplies as
the title suggests.
Now that would be worth reading.
Here's one I posted a while back which costs around $15 with shipping,
plus $3 or so for an adapter plug (no soldering required).
I strongly recommend ear-cleaning and ear-cupping. I do the latter
routinely in a concert-hall or opera house. Used to make me feel
self-conscious, but now I see others doing it.
To clean the ears safely, it is best to buy (in a pharmacy) a rubber
bulb that is specially made for this purpose.
Can anyone recommend a subwoofer to match the Quad electrostatic 988
speakers, for use with both HT and music? My room is 15' x 18' so I
don't need anything particulalry loud, but something that blends in
well. Am thinking of the TBI Magellan VIII or the Velodyne DD-12, but
open to suggestions.
opaqueice wrote:
Robin Bowes;190715 Wrote:
No, a turkey won't vote for Christmas, will it?
The first time I read your post, I didn't understand a single thing you
had said. Now at least I have a theory about this last - are you
British, and do people eat turkey at Christmas there?
Yes.
Transporter - Audio Note 2.1 Signature DAC - Cary SLP98P F1 - Audio
Note Quest monos - Avantgarde DUO
And it sounds fantastic. The Transporter sounds best connected to the
Audio Note DAC, and therefore I'm not using it's internal DAC.
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opaqueice;190833 Wrote:
At your service, m'lord - it's pretty entertaining for me too, here in
the court of the nude emperors ;-).
As we seem to have driffted a bit OT I will continue :), I'm interested
as to what equipment you have Opaqueice.
I know all the bits I have bought, err only
Skunk;190780 Wrote:
Thanks for the correction, and more importantly the new verb to use when
my girlfriend suggests we use these. I feel bad saying this now, after
recommending them, but I only tried it once and couldn't stand to let
it burn more that 20 seconds. Something didn't seem right
Skunk;190755 Wrote:
My impression was that the shield usually drained the noise to ground,
which your foil tweak doesn't have the advantage of. I'd guess the
mains cable is more prone to interference now.
I don't really understand the ins and outs of how rf, emf and what ever
else happens,
opaqueice;190835 Wrote:
Here's one I posted a while back which costs around $15 with shipping,
plus $3 or so for an adapter plug (no soldering required).
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31971
However, see also
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32231
I
I realized shortly after adding a preamp to my rig that I could do A-B
testing using the various inputs of the preamp. The recent Lavry
threads and power supply threads finally made me get off my rear and
rig up a test.
For this test, I compared the stock SB3, and additional stock SB3 with
the
Test subject 1 is connected to the dedicated power outlet with the rest
of the components. Test subject 2 is connected to a standard household
outlet.
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opaqueice;190700 Wrote:
Well, I agree listening tests should play a role - but my point was
mainly that it's impractical to build the thing every possible way and
then listen to every configuration and decide which is best. You have
to design it first, and if something is wrong you can go
When I initially started this test I found the differences between the
SB3 and Lavry to be very subtle. On some music I couldn't tell the
difference. After some time though I started to hear better. The
difference is subtle, yet very, very important. To put it simply, it's
like it turns the
Deaf Cat;190877 Wrote:
I don't really understand the ins and outs of how rf, emf and what ever
else happens, but could the foil act as a type of barrier against other
cable's emmissions?
This is a good illustration of the difference between science and
audiophilia. An explanation of ~why~
OK, so is all of this in my head?
I asked my wife to come and help. She sat in front of the premap so I
couldn't see what was being played. She switched between the three
inputs and wrote down what was played and what I said I heard.
There were only a couple of songs where I had to guess and
Ben Diss wrote:
My conclusion is that the power supply in my rig makes no difference
and the Lavry adds detail otherwise missing from the stock SB3.
Ben,
Nice test, and nice write up.
Regarding your explanation of how the Lavry sounds better than the stock
SB3, it's hard to put into words,
jonheal;190876 Wrote:
I thought the ear candling thing was a joke! It's real?!?
It's a real joke!
TD
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rbl;190855 Wrote:
Can anyone recommend a subwoofer to match the Quad electrostatic 988
speakers . . .
No personal experience but I've read many comments recommending dipole
subs to go along with dipole speakers such as the Quads. The only
folks I know manufacturing dipole subs specifically
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Ben Diss;190880 Wrote:
I'll cut to the chase. I can't tell any difference between the power
supplies and the Lavry sounds great.
Ben,
Nice job and thanks for sharing the results.
I do have one comment/question about the results. My experience has
been that the stock SB3 switching power
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Hey Ben,
Thanks for posting such a nice and detailed writeup. Your conclusions
on the power supply match mine (and yes, I unplugged the switcher when
listening to the linear).
What you say about the Lavry is also very interesting - it's something
I've been thinking about trying out for a
Deaf Cat;190868 Wrote:
As we seem to have driffted a bit OT I will continue :), I'm interested
as to what equipment you have Opaqueice.
At the moment, stock SB3 - custom Odyssey Audio amp (similar to the
Khartago/Stratos, but with a volume knob attached to a passive
potentiometer added) -
I'm not Ben, and I don't have a Lavry but
I've been thinking about trying out for a while now. I do have one
annoying little concern that I can't help asking about - when you
compared the Lavry to the stock SB, did you by any chance match the
volume? The reason I ask is that not all DACs
If blending is your main concern, a REL Britannia or a pair of the cute
new REL T-series connected at speaker level, or the 'Audio Physic Luna
II' (http://www.audiophysic.de/luna/index_e.html), whose room gain
setting is very helpful in that regard.
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Great post , Ben.
Thanks for the info
Tom
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Transporter directly to NAP250 and cheap DVD player on the digital coax
in.
Muski, I'm very interested in how your headphone setup sounds, since
I'm considering adding a Rudistor combined pre-amp/headphone amp to my
setup, and like you I want to take advantage of the Transporters
balanced output
opaqueice;190908 Wrote:
Hey Ben,
Thanks for posting such a nice and detailed writeup. Your conclusions
on the power supply match mine (and yes, I unplugged the switcher when
listening to the linear).
What you say about the Lavry is also very interesting - it's something
I've been
Cheers :)
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Max F;190878 Wrote:
I have this but haven't tried it yet. I'm still waiting on the adaptor
which is on backorder.
I was wondering if the problems that some people are having with the
stock switching supply is not that its a switching supply, but that its
not a very good one (lets
Phil Leigh;190947 Wrote:
Well I think you are getting closer...my problem was nothing to do with
the SB, rather that the stock switcher (which may be fine in all other
respects AFAIK) puts out a lot of RF which my system doesn't seem to
like very much.
I have some expensive switching
I also seem to remember reading something about more than one type of
switching PSU being shipped as the stock PSU. If that is the case,
clearly there could be differences between them. It is conceivable
that one could generate much more problematic EMI than the other.
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GaryB;190894 Wrote:
No personal experience but I've read many comments recommending dipole
subs to go along with dipole speakers such as the Quads. The only
folks I know manufacturing dipole subs specifically for the Quads are
Gradient - http://www.gradient.fi/
Take a look at the SW-D
janly;190864 Wrote:
Transporter - Audio Note 2.1 Signature DAC - Cary SLP98P F1 - Audio
Note Quest monos - Avantgarde DUO
And it sounds fantastic. The Transporter sounds best connected to the
Audio Note DAC, and therefore I'm not using it's internal DAC.
Nice. You got a picture in the
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The Quads are super fast, so if your sub is going to match with these
wonder speakers and not always be a step behind you should look at subs
with a lot of wattage and small speakers. Probably you should use two
subs with 10 speakers (possible even 8 ) and you'll probably want the
subs to be
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creativepart;190961 Wrote:
The Quads are super fast, so if your sub is going to match with these
wonder speakers and not always be a step behind you should look at subs
with a lot of wattage and small speakers. Probably you should use two
subs with 10 speakers (possible even 8 )
Wouldn't a
Ben Diss;190934 Wrote:
Good question and I should have spelled that out. I used a 1 khz test
tone and my Radio Shack analog sound meter to match the volume on all
three test systems. The preamp has an adjustment factor for each input
so it was really easy to switch back and forth between
Ben Diss;190888 Wrote:
OK, so is all of this in my head?
I asked my wife to come and help. She sat in front of the premap so I
couldn't see what was being played. She switched between the three
inputs and wrote down what was played and what I said I heard.
There were only a couple of
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Ben Diss;190935 Wrote:
Gary- I did not unplug it, however it is plugged into a completely
different outlet.
You need to be aware that it is suspected, by me at least, that the
nasty stuff is airborne transmitted, not carried via mains. So a safer
test would have been to unplug completely.
Hi,
This just to inform all of you, that a review/test of the Slimdevices
Transporter is avaiable in the april number of High Fidelity.
Unfurtuately on danish/swedish - but for some still readable!
I think all of you will enjoy the review.
Regards
Kim Kruse
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Actually, turns out Empirical does not do such a mod. Any other ideas
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Cheers Ben - Good Reading :)
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Deaf Cat;190609 Wrote:
Not too sure if this may be detrimental (heat wise)to the cable though?
A properly-sized cable will not heat up to any appreciable degree,
insulated with foil or not. An improperly-sized cable (too small for
the current it's trying to pass) will heat up, and constitutes
ceejay;190982 Wrote:
You need to be aware that it is suspected, by me at least, that the
nasty stuff is airborne transmitted, not carried via mains. So a safer
test would have been to unplug completely.
For next time, perhaps...
Ceejay
Just out of curiosity, do you unplug all such
If both are similarly priced. I tend to think of Paradigm speakers as
overachievers: cheaper than BW yet sounds almost as good, if you
know what I mean ;^)
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Kim Kruse;190984 Wrote:
Hi,
This just to inform all of you, that a review/test of the Slimdevices
Transporter is avaiable in the april number of High Fidelity.
Unfurtuately on danish/swedish - but for some still readable!
I think all of you will enjoy the review.
Regards
Kim
Ben Diss;190934 Wrote:
Good question and I should have spelled that out. I used a 1 khz test
tone and my Radio Shack analog sound meter to match the volume on all
three test systems. The preamp has an adjustment factor for each input
so it was really easy to switch back and forth between
slimkid;190991 Wrote:
Just out of curiosity, do you unplug all such devices throughout your
home while listening to the music. I mean, there must be at least 10 of
them in typical NA household.
Nope, but then again when I'm listening normally to music I'm not also
trying to make a carefully
So how did it work? Do you have the SB playing off the external clock?
BTW I want to clear up some terminology here, there seems to be some
misunderstanding between word clock and MCLK or sysclk. A word clock
is a clock with a frequency equal to the sample rate (a word in this
case is all the
Oops, I didn't answer Rio's question. As long as you are doing the
reclocking in the DAC the jitter in the SB doesn't matter much. This
means you can use horrible transmission technology to get the MCLK into
the SB and as long as it can see some vestige of a square wave it will
work fine. My
Thanks for chiming in John. After considering your prior feedback and
reading up on synch reclocking I've managed to create a schematic which
is attached. Does it look like it might work? The right side (i.e. my
external DAC schematic) is fortunately all done. I just need to create
a resynch
ceejay;190982 Wrote:
You need to be aware that it is suspected, by me at least, that the
nasty stuff is airborne transmitted, not carried via mains. So a safer
test would have been to unplug completely.
For next time, perhaps...
Ceejay
Ceejay- I thought about this some more and came
Small drivers are faster accelerating and return faster too. Less mass
to move in either direction. Plus remember the Quads are MUCH faster
reacting than cone speakers.
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creativepart;191028 Wrote:
Small drivers are faster accelerating and return faster too. Less mass
to move in either direction. Plus remember the Quads are MUCH faster
reacting than cone speakers.
Can someone please explain what is meant by fast in this context? If
small drivers really
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My end-to-end balanced headphone setup is wonderful (warning: very
addictive!). I noticed a slight increase in detail and a very
signficant improvement in imaging over the high-end unbalanced
headphone system I had before (both with Transporter as source). I
have yet to find a
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