Darren Yeats,
wonders that you have heard the Amaya's, What is your view on the
Amaya's
Do you think its the speaker that is a problem. Cause what i saw
missing was midrange guitar...the distorted guitar just didnt show
which showed on my mediocre setup.
I suspect that if I replace the Mediocre s
Hmm - so I guess the routine for level matching is just broken. In that
case its utility is limited, although it should still be good for
comparing FLAC to WAV, or digital cables, or two sources into the same
DAC, or maybe interconnects.
In any case (because of the phase issue plus other problem
opaqueice;219008 Wrote:
> The most obvious candidate is bad level matching - maybe audiodiffmaker
> doesn't do a great job with that. You can test that by changing the
> level of one of the files with another program (Audacity, say) and then
> run diffmaker on that modified file plus the other,
In the late 80´s One Hifi magazine here in sweden did a listening test
on Digtal transports (CD players) to a External DAC.
The CD players sounded much difference from each other,
They fought this difference was because of the transports reading
capabilities, more stable CD mechanism etc.
Then
barty;219023 Wrote:
> Interesting. Looking at the specs, the balanced output is 3Vrms vs
> 2Vrms for the RCA. This is considerably higher output. Could the
> "unbalanced sounds better" be a simple "louder sounds better" effect?
> tomjtx - or anyone else were your listening tests between xlr a
johann;219020 Wrote:
> When levelmatched to within 1 dB, I hear absolute no difference between
> XLR and RCA in my setup. My setup includes Focal 1027 Be, AudioNet PRE
> 1 G3, AudioNet AMP 2 MAX and of course the Transporter. All music is
> rippped with EAC to lossless formats and my listening ro
barty;219011 Wrote:
> With the anecdotal reports of the balanced output of the Transporter
> sounding significantly better, this would appear to be a good solution
> and much better than a simple adapter.
When levelmatched to within 1 dB, I hear absolute no difference between
XLR and RCA in my s
NewBuyer;218924 Wrote:
> I don't own a Transporter (yet) - but one of the single biggest sonic
> improvements I ever made in my system, was to put a 'Jensen PC-2XR'
> (http://www.jensen-transformers.com/pc2xr.html) between the balanced
> output of my source, and the RCA inputs of my amp (using a
No, Transporter cannot decode DTS or Dolby Digital. Usually these are
5.1-channel streams, the Transporter is a 2-channel device and doesn't
know what to do with 5.1.
There has been some work with Dolby Digital streams though, which you
can find somewhere in the forum.
But - you are aware that
I've used it to compare WAV to FLAC playback through the analogue outs
of my SB3. In that case the levels were identical, so that wasn't an
issue. The difference file was white noise -85dB down or so, with the
noise probably coming mostly from the recording (which was done using
my MacBook's sou
mlsstl;218964 Wrote:
> ... However, back to your original question, I'd think you'd be in about
> the same league DAC-wise with the DEQ vs SB3. I ended up finding that I
> got more out of a high quality DAC (Lavry DA-10) than I did the
> equalization.
Thanks mlsstl!
Ideally I'd like to run the SB
hi there,
is there any way to make transporter play DTS stream via one of it's
digital in's?
using a NAD T533 dvd player which unfortunately only perfectly sends
2-channel stereo @ 96 khz and 5.1 dolby surround, but I also want to
play DTS over the transporter DAC. the NAD has only DTS digital o
Hi,
I missed that you had some Cadence hybrid speakers.
As it happens, I've heard a Krell KAV-300i (not mine) powering a pair
of Cadence Amayas. Also the same speakers being powered by a pair of
Audion Silver Night valve mono amps. The Audions were much better -
very believable sound and even the
I saw in this thread reference to audiodiffmaker
and wonder if anybody has got this to work right.
I have a scummy old squeezebox 1 and I've finally finished ripping my
CDs to flac after two years and one HD crash ;) Backup is good to have,
and I didn't...
I'm not particularly enamoured of the
johann;218900 Wrote:
> And a true balanced circuit does not neccessarily sound better.
Totally agree!
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I had a DEQ2496 for a while. While I didn't buy it for the DAC and
didn't put much effort into comparing the SB3 analog out with the
DEQ's, I found it a passable piece of equipment. I'd put them roughly
in the same class, though I might give a slight edge to the SB3.
I ended up selling the DEQ.
NewBuyer;218924 Wrote:
> one of the single biggest sonic improvements I ever made in my system,
> was to put a Jensen PC-2XR between the balanced output of my source,
> and the RCA inputs of my amp
This isn't exactly the same as using an XLR to RCA cable, but since you
bring it up, we might as w
I find differences between digital sources subtle, but important for
deciding whether I want to listen a lot more! If anyone finds
something like cables 'unlistenable', it's a sure sign that they have
gone too far away from music and into the equipment. The music is
always good, the equipment is
Micromega is nice kit, and you're not risking much cash, but I would
generally reckon that a ten year-old DAC might be bettered by one of
the current super-budget crop from the far east.
But you'd be able to get the same back on ebay if you didn't like it,
so there is really very little to lose i
I don't own a Transporter (yet) - but one of the single biggest sonic
improvements I ever made in my system, was to put a 'Jensen PC-2XR'
(http://www.jensen-transformers.com/pc2xr.html) between the balanced
output of my source, and the RCA inputs of my amp (using a 1-foot RCA
interconnect cable be
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