UK Import taxes are mostly to blame.
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dennis55;287225 Wrote:
Wishing to upgrade from SB3 to Transporter i have looked around various
sites for a price...here in UK the retail is about £1250+.
Slim Devices advertise it for $1999.
Prices listed on the Slim Devices website are US dollars and exclude
taxes (VAT), any
dennis55 Wrote:
BPA,have a look at the TIVOLI Audio mk1 by Henry Kloss.
The op is gvh not me. I already have a Tivoli PAL, a PC tuner card
(hooked up to cable supplied FM) and a Griffin Radio Shark.
My suggestion was that instead of having two boxes in the Kitchen, gvh
could have a real
dennis55;287225 Wrote:
Wishing to upgrade from SB3 to Transporter i have looked around various
sites for a price...here in UK the retail is about £1250+.
Slim Devices advertise it for $1999.
now, i am a very keen audiophile BUT i'm damned if i am going to pay
£1000 + for the
bhaagensen;287072 Wrote:
Like you said cliveb, we've been over this many times. But I do believe
you are wrong in this. From what I know it boils down to this. You
don't loose any resolution until something something like -30dB.
However theoretically you get lower SNR by reducing volume
cliveb;287281 Wrote:
There's nothing theoretical about it - the SNR
certainly does decrease as you increase digital attenuation.
Bad wording form my side. I was trying to say what you are saying,
i.e. that it might not be audible.
But the important question is whether it's a big
dennis55 wrote:
Wishing to upgrade from SB3 to Transporter i have looked around various
sites for a price...here in UK the retail is about £1250+.
Slim Devices advertise it for $1999.
Dennis,
As others have said, by the time you pay shipping, import duty, and VAT
on the gross total
dennis55;287225 Wrote:
dennis
Waterfoot? And you're not a Linnophile? :)
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kolding;287145 Wrote:
And I thought I'd bought too much Rotel. Hope you're a stockholder...
Eric
Good Quality Equipment, Looks and Sounds Great, and doesn't break the
bank.
My Lounge/HT before painting. Audio system went in first!
Priorities!
SB3 on top of the speaker .
Club1820;287379 Wrote:
My Lounge/HT before painting. Audio system went in first!
Priorities!
Of course, everybody knows that. At least the guys do, women just
tolerate us and chuckle. Some of the first things that went up in my
new house, server in the closet, DSL connection, and
Your woman tolerates you ?? - wow - she's a keeper.
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David Ayers
Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more
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bhaagensen;287292 Wrote:
How can this be the same ? Presumably the amp doesn't know what noise
is, and will amplify whatever noise it is being fed just as happily as
anything.
A power amp with a fixed gain adds constant noise. If you feed a
smaller signal in, you get an output with a lower
kolding;287404 Wrote:
And you have to test the sound system with Dark Side of the Moon,
right?
Eric
I havent listend to that in quite awhile. will do so this weekend. :)
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kolding;287404 Wrote:
women just tolerate us and chuckle.
Eric
I have the audio on as soon as I walk in the house. Kitchen Living
room synced. I cant be in the house without music playing. My wife
likes music also. But the other day she asked if I could turn it down
a bit. Wasnt even
someone said below 80% of max volume you start losing
information..?
I thought/hear a reduction in quality from 100% downward so if you run
at 100% vol on the sb3 then you may notice a drop off .
I'd suggest that you set the nait's vol with the sb3 at 100% to your
normal listening vol
Killie99,living here next to Ivor's blue house i suppose you couldn't
ignore his products ..ok ! i own up to having had most of the LK
lineup here in various guises.
i have shed most of my Linn gear over the last year or so,just finished
selling the remnants of a tri-aktiv Kaber system.
in
Pay yourself a ticket to NY, buy the TP there and enjoy a weekend, all
for the same price of a UK bought TP... Of course smuggling it might be
an issue, but im sure if its used
Extra comment:
Ive being trying to get my hands on a PS Audio Power Plant Premiere,
talk about ripoffs, you pay at
hi, loving my two sb3 - one runs into a channel islands audio dac, the
other goes analog. the one on the bigger system has a bolder elpac
powering it. sounds nice!
my question is: should I get the new channel islands power supply for
the other squeezebox? or their power supply for their dac?
GuyDebord;287454 Wrote:
Pay yourself a ticket to NY, buy the TP there and enjoy a weekend, all
for the same price of a UK bought TP... Of course smuggling it might be
an issue, but im sure if its used
Thats a littel on the optamistice side don't you think?
£300 will barely get you to
funkstar;287471 Wrote:
Thats a littel on the optamistice side don't you think?
£300 will barely get you to NYC, yet alone accomodation :)
Not really, you can easily get a round trip ticket for 200-220 pounds
if you book it 2 weeks in advance, and for the accommodation, I guess
it depends on
Only if parting with money makes you feel better.
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zanash wrote:
someone said below 80% of max volume you start losing
information..?
Someone said the world is flat too..?
It's not hard this - the SB3 has a 24-bit processing path; Redbook uses
16 bits, so you can reduce volume by 8 bits before losing any resolution.
e.g. The original
Robin Bowes;287487 Wrote:
The Squeezebox uses this:
So, you can reduce the level of the signal by 8 bits before resolution
starts dropping off the end:
Wouldn't the last four ones be lost in the noise floor though?
bigfool1956;287411 Wrote:
Your woman tolerates you ?? - wow - she's a keeper.
I think I've just been dissed :-)
Eric
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SliMP3 - the closet
SqueezeBox 1 - Bose Soundwave
SqueezeBox 2 - Rotel RSX-1056 - Totem Acoustic Dreamcatchers
SqueezeBox 3 - Rotel RX-1052 - Vandersteen 1B's
Ok
Just took delivery of my Transporter...would like to set up
Squeezecenter so I have everything at optimal settings.
Too many choices...can someone shed some light here?
seeting Bitrate Limiting to No Limit is a no-barainer but what about
the others, in particular
Digital Volume Control
Club1820;287423 Wrote:
My wife likes music also. But the other day she asked if I could turn
it down a bit. Wasnt even playing loud.
Uh Oh! Sounds like you might need 'Volume Guard' soon then:
http://www.thespicers.net/slim.html
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chill
I wasn't dissing you Eric, I was being jealous!!
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I have tryed both (Transported and SB3) with an external DAC (Audio
Note).
Rest of the Stuff:
Plinius Tautoro (preamp)
Plinius SA reference (amp)
Dynaudio Sapphire (speakers)
Audio Note (Interconects).
I'm not talking about measurements or tech considerations, only EAR.
The difference is HUGE.
The Tivoli stuff is nice, but you're missing the part of the original
post: the active loudspeakers (audioengine A2's). What GVH is really
looking for is a preamp/FM tuner.
I can't suggest one of those, but if you don't mind changing from an
active to as passive speaker, what you're looking for
Manelus;287558 Wrote:
...
I'm not talking about measurements or tech considerations, only EAR.
...
and eye?
K
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The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will
improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially.
ok thanks.
well before I get rid of my lavry would like to do some listening tests
with digital out from the transporter.
What settings should I use in the prefs?
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Just disable replay gain, and crank the volume to 100. That will give
you a bit-perfect output of FLAC files.
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Hi Guys
Well I can dispell the myths. I have listened to the Akurate DS Vs The
Slim Transporter.
I spent a good 2-3 days demoing the Transporter in my system (search on
the forum for the results) and concluding that the Transporter, whilst
good functionality wise sounded awful. Not musical,
If there's a HUGE difference , something is broken , cos I not only
compared SB and TP but a transport too (theta Jade) , any differences
were marginal, if existant ..
However the analog output of SB/TP and CDP's all differed quite a lot.
The Sb/TP sounded more similar to each other than my
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