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You can simply look at your CD cases, decide what to play and find it
alphabetically very fast on the player.
I too have lost the touch with the collection and I'm using the Random
Mix - Songs to find what to listen by hearing it. It is like looking at
the pile of CDs and having a perfect memory
drewe181;216983 Wrote:
i find it best when i watch a movie or listen to music myself as i can
have it as loud as i want with no distractions other than one's i've
made myself. i hate watching dvd's with others as i'm not always seated
in the best position. that, and the fact that my wife
Phil Leigh;216984 Wrote:
1) As host you should be able to demand the best set in the house - they
are your seats after all
2) upgrade wife to wife 2.1 (or have her modded) with mute option
3) Only buy movies that no-one else wants to watch...
:o)
1)i will still have people between me and
I bought my PMC AB-1s from a recording studio about 10 years ago, and
they were in use for some considerable time before that.
I can say that the PMCs have provided good service, they are pretty
bullet-proof. They can go very loud with low distortion and have good
detail and imaging and extended
I like the idea. There are a number of software companies out there
that already have 'bar code' functionality built into their CD Database
apps so it would be a natural extension of this technology.
But the main reason I like the idea of a bar code scanner - I'm
partially blind and find it
i find it best when i watch a movie or listen to music myself as i can
have it as loud as i want with no distractions other than one's i've
made myself. i hate watching dvd's with others as i'm not always seated
in the best position. that, and the fact that my wife doesn't shut up
when watching a
I guess this is a new magazine. I wonder if they are available to be
purchased and downloaded electronically.
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From http://www.hificritic.com
it is a subscription only magazine - with no adverts.
You can subscribe here
http://www.hificritic.com/subscribe/order.aspx
The Transporter issue - is their 4th.
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ezkcdude;74669 Wrote:
I just learned about the new DAC from Channel Islands, VDA-2, replacing
the VDA-1. Has anyone tried this new DAC, yet? At $600, it seems like
it may be a better value than the venerable Benchmark DAC-1, which I
know so many people here love.
I am also looking for a new
I seem to recall that someone made a plugin for this exact thing a while
back. I'll see if I can find it...
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darrenyeats;216989 Wrote:
PS: BTW cliveb's approach with an active speaker is one I am interested
in, for no other reason than it gets me off the upgrade bandwagon. I
would hope that any concerns about amplifier vibration are engineered
out, and that the amps are superbly matched to the
crooner;216956 Wrote:
One thing I have noticed with my current setup is that it takes some
memorizing of my collection to decide what to play.
Unless I have the laptop on to browse artwork, I no longer have a
visual aid to decide what to listen. With a large collection, it starts
to get
drewe181;216983 Wrote:
i find it best when i watch a movie or listen to music myself as i can
have it as loud as i want with no distractions other than one's i've
made myself. i hate watching dvd's with others as i'm not always seated
in the best position. that, and the fact that my wife
Videodrome;217003 Wrote:
she has the uncanny ability to do this right in the middle of the most
dramatic scenes.
I think its genetic :P (apologies in advance).
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DCtoDaylight;216936 Wrote:
The attraction of 96K Sampling (not up sampling) over 44.1K sampling, is
that it moves the brick wall filter from 22.05 kHz to 48 kHz. This can
have audible benefits, because the 22kHz filter usually has measurable
affects in the audible pass band. Move the
Hi folks,
Studio monitors are highly accurate machines which tend to be used in
the near field. Their bass response is often not what most consumers
want.
my understanding is that in the hands of experienced audio engineers
they can be used to set the balance of a recording.
As for filling a
JohnSwenson;216848 Wrote:
This is an interesting case. They use a high frequency clock (I think
its something like 110MHz) to reclock the data going to the DAC. This
DOES make the system almost immune to jitter on the input, but DOES
effectively create jitter on the output. The clock might
egd;216891 Wrote:
This should be a pretty easy to deal with using either a network enabled
DVD player or a purpose built PVR type PC. If you Google the topic I'm
sure you will find many howto's on this topic. Storing DVDs on a NAS
would be child's play, albeit strictly speaking illegal in
mudlark;217016 Wrote:
Hi folks,
Studio monitors are highly accurate machines which tend to be used in
the near field. Their bass response is often not what most consumers
want.
my understanding is that in the hands of experienced audio engineers
they can be used to set the balance of a
mudlark;217016 Wrote:
Studio monitors are highly accurate machines which tend to be used in
the near field. Their bass response is often not what most consumers
want.
Are you sure it's not simply that the frequency response of pro
monitors is reported accurately, contrary to the usual
Phil Leigh wrote:
Bit of a sweeping generalisation there, Mudlark old chap...
Yes, I have not found Mudlark's complaints, my Mackie's sound great,
they are just ugly.
and are usually used in conjunction with/as an alternative to large,
very powerfull full range monitors (I'm not talking
Phil,
I would certainly agree that my post was a generalisation. The point I
was trying to make is that consumers listening in rooms that have
absorbent decoration and can be quite large are not going to be filled
with pleasant sound if you use a small studio monitor type speaker. I
am sure
mudlark;217023 Wrote:
Phil,
I would certainly agree that my post was a generalisation. The point I
was trying to make is that consumers listening in rooms that have
absorbent decoration and can be quite large are not going to be filled
with pleasant sound if you use a small studio monitor
I am surprised to hear that studios and mixing rooms go to the effort of
using a listening room that even slightly behaves like a consumer living
room. I consider my self to be admonished.
It is obvious that some music is produced in studios that like to
over-emphasise bass levels and even the
This thead is most enjoyable.
My 11 year old Burmese will sit in MY sweetspot and listen (and
actually sing along) to certain music tracks I play.
His favorite is anything by Baka Beyond.
ps...don't tell him I said so, but the poor boy is tone deaf.
.
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haunyack
Transporter - BK Reference
My Infinity sub uses the analog outs from my Transporter and it works
great.
One advantage is that the sub has level control and a R.A.B.O.S. -
(Room Adaptive Bass Optimization System).
.
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haunyack
Transporter - BK Reference 200.2 - Vandersteen 3A Signature.
RWA (Analog) SB3 - Rotel RB
This thead is most enjoyable.
My 11 year old Burmese will sit in MY sweetspot and listen (and
actually sing along) to certain music tracks I play.
His favorite is anything by Baka Beyond.
ps...don't tell him I said so, but the poor boy is tone deaf.
.
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haunyack
Transporter - BK Reference
Phil Leigh wrote:
The listening end of a control room or mastering suite is usually more
dead than alive - and more similar to a home environment than a lot of
people think. Bear in mind that the music being assessed via the
monitors is intended to be replayed in homes, not studios...
Nit,
mudlark;217032 Wrote:
I am surprised to hear that studios and mixing rooms go to the effort of
using a listening room that even slightly behaves like a consumer living
room. I consider my self to be admonished.
It is obvious that some music is produced in studios that like to
Not that wikipedia is the ultimate source, but I found this citation
relevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_monitor
There are a number of reasons for this:
* Domestic speakers are generally less rugged and unable to cope
with the often extreme conditions encountered in the
Jaco;216293 Wrote:
OK, I did some more research on this issue. It seems that there are two
different standards for providing an external clock signal to digital
sources.
1. An input running at the sampling frequency, e.g. 44.1kHz or 96kHz
(called Wordclock)
2. An input running at the
seanadams;216851 Wrote:
Here, I tested it for you! :)
http://www.seanadams.com/jitter_fiber_test/
Sean - you are (still) my hero and you saved me $70! Atthis rate I can
afford my own pony soon.
So this test (which must go down in the annals of audio history by the
way) proves one of two
Pat - I'd generally agree, except my take on this is that studio
monitors tend to be more accurately revealing at the top endtending
towards ruthless. This in turn leads to one of two effects:
This ruthlessness causes the top end to be tamed by the listener during
mixing/mastering thus
Phil Leigh;217027 Wrote:
Anyway, we weren't necessarily talking about small nearfields...
ATC's won't look (or sound)good perched on a desk...
Just to clear up any possible confusion, ATC make speakers in a wide
range of sizes. The clue is in the model number, which indicates the
internal
Phil Leigh wrote:
Pat - I'd generally agree, except my take on this is that studio
monitors tend to be more accurately revealing at the top endtending
towards ruthless.
Some more so than others. One man's accuracy is another's ruthless.
Nearly all studio nearfields have a fair number of
To get around this I right clicked and selected open link in new tab
(in Firefox) whilst hovering the mouse over the slimserver Albums link.
A browser window opens and lists a series of album covers and album
names. I printed this to PDF and then printed the PDFs on a color
printer. I now have
bye gum I'm really enjoying this
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Usually in a discrete Master Clock setup you have to tell the wordclock
(manually) what to run at... given that the DAC clock in your case is
going to control the TP, I don't see how the switching could be auto
since the TP is going to send only at the rate dictated by the DAC. If
it was the
Pat Farrell;217043 Wrote:
Phil Leigh wrote:
The listening end of a control room or mastering suite is usually
more
dead than alive - and more similar to a home environment than a lot
of
people think. Bear in mind that the music being assessed via the
monitors is intended to be
Phil Leigh;217046 Wrote:
Sean - you are (still) my hero and you saved me $70! Atthis rate I can
afford my own pony soon.
So this test (which must go down in the annals of audio history by the
way) proves one of two things:
A) toslink is so bad to start with that only really violent
mudlark;217056 Wrote:
bye gum I'm really enjoying this.
Phil,
I am sure good mixers etc can produce good recordings in difficult
circumstances, I was complaining about mixes that are produced for car
stereos or boom boxes. Ie that are deliberately messed about with. I am
sure that
Phil Leigh wrote:
Nit? are you calling me a fool? :o) (been called worse!)
Actually a nit is a tiny egg. And my comments was about a tiny thing
A nit-wit is a dummy.
I was saying that the control room would tend to be pretty dead and
flat (but not anechoic) rather than live.
There was a
seanadams;217060 Wrote:
I'd say they're both true depending on what you want to use it for. If
you believe that jitter below 1ns is not audible, or you just aren't
concerned about it, then there's nothing wrong with toslink.
No I only spent a couple minutes hooking up each test case
Pat Farrell;217067 Wrote:
Phil Leigh wrote:
Nit? are you calling me a fool? :o) (been called worse!)
Actually a nit is a tiny egg. And my comments was about a tiny thing
A nit-wit is a dummy.
I was saying that the control room would tend to be pretty dead
and
flat (but not
My believe is that all these different approaches of slaving the DAC to
the clock of the digital source, or by using PLL's or
re-clocking/re-sampling are fundamentally flawed. It is the DAC that
should be the clock master and not the source. That immediately solves
most of the jitter issues if
Phil Leigh;217066 Wrote:
I just don't think jitter lends itself to a measurement-audible quality
correlation in the same way as (say) THD or IMD.
In many ways there are similarities between jitter and distortion
measurements, as they are all commonly expressed as 'a number',
although the
tot;217074 Wrote:
20kHz is 50ns for full cycle, or 25ns for half cycle. Some parts of the
body are clearly quite fast reacting.
Teemu
Close - you're only off by a factor of a thousand. :)
milli = 10^-3
micro = 10^-6
nano = 10^-9
pico = 10^-12
At any rate, the ear doesn't work like
zanash;216739 Wrote:
Not many suggestions for a cheap dac to rival the shek ...
Anyone know if the Shek can handle pCM?
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jdbaker;217054 Wrote:
This is exactly what I would like to do, when I open the browser window
all I see are the album names, how do I access the album art. I use
iTunes w/lossless files and have art for most of my albums but it does
not show up in Slimserver.
You will need to configure
seanadams;217098 Wrote:
Close - you're only off by a factor of a thousand. :)
I had a gut feeling something was terribly wrong, but went ahead
regardless .. :-)
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I bought the Shek (d2) and I think it's much better than the stock SB3 -
but still not good enough. I now have an SB+, which is. If you want to
continue on the budget route, I hear lots of good things about the
Beresford DAC, but have not heard one myself. I suspect, caveat
auditor, that you
It would be nice to compare the Bel Canto with the Transporter DAC!
stevo
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You have the same system as I do (except the speakers). I would try (if
you haven't already) using the balanced outputs on the transporter
straight into the Ref1000's and using the digital volume control on the
Transporter. No need for the DAC3 in this situation.
I use a Bolder Cables modified
Jaco;217078 Wrote:
My believe is that all these different approaches of slaving the DAC to
the clock of the digital source, or by using PLL's or
re-clocking/re-sampling are fundamentally flawed. It is the DAC that
should be the clock master and not the source. That immediately solves
most
Videodrome;217008 Wrote:
I thought there is one key difference in that upsampling is done
completely in the digital domain upstream from the DAC (as is the case
with my Behringer SRC2496).
Sorry no, both upsampling and oversampling are done completely in the
digital domain. Where exactly
I have an SB3, and I've just bought a Bel Canto DAC3. Question is: is it
worth buying the Transporter to replace the SB3 as a transport? Or is
the money better off being spent elsewhere?
I'm running the following:
SB3Bel Canto DAC3 Bel Canto REF1000s BW 803Ds
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Patrick Dixon;217100 Wrote:
In many ways there are similarities between jitter and distortion
measurements, as they are all commonly expressed as 'a number',
although the spectral content behind the headline number is probably
just as important.
Patrick - that's what I meant in my inelegant
Phil Leigh;217066 Wrote:
When we get down to nanoseconds my brain starts to hurt because isn't
the interval limit of what a human can discern in the single-digit
milliseconds? I can't even imagine what a nanosecond is. I know people
go on about 20pS of jitter - and I know you've often
a modded behringer src2496 will easily out perform both the xdacv3,and
the dac1I've had my src up against both. the dac 1 owner sold his
unit to get an src [modded by me] and pocketed the remaining £500 !
The xdacv3 in standard form is rather nasal and shut in ...but once
modded can sound
tot;217074 Wrote:
20kHz is 50ns for full cycle, or 25ns for half cycle. Some parts of the
body are clearly quite fast reacting.
Teemu
When I was 18 I applied for a job at the BBC. They did a hearing test.
I was 3dB down at 17Khz. (I got the job) I'm probably about 6dB down at
15Khz these
Thanks for your reply Phil. Yes, I'm also interested in hearing what
different amounts of jitter sound like. That could be an intersting
experiment.
A good friend of mine is a recording engineer and we've experimented
quite a lot with the good sounding harmonic distortion of valve
pre-amps.
Phil Leigh;216865 Wrote:
Totally agree - which is why I really want an SB-like solution for my
600 DVD's...
It's a bit dated, but here's a link on setting up a DVD server:
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/archives/000546.php
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