Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!

2008-05-20 Thread dantheman
DCtoDaylight;303552 Wrote: > Of course Sean is the right guy to answer this question, but I rather > suspect that the answer will be no. If the Transporters hardware was > able to handle 192K sampling rates, then I'm sure it would have been > advertised as such. The fact is, it handles 96K, and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Power supply A/B

2008-05-20 Thread DCtoDaylight
bigfool1956;302205 Wrote: > It is often said that the switch mode PS will affect other components > (although I have no personal experience, having a TP) Actually you do have personal experience, you just didn't know! If you open up your Transporter, you'll find it's got three power supplies, tw

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Power supply A/B

2008-05-20 Thread roll - gybe
cliveb;302142 Wrote: > Having established that you preferred the SB3 with the Elpac, you should > then have swapped the power supplies on the two SB3 and redone the > comparison. It strikes me as entirely plausible that sample variation > between the SB3s could be at least as large as any differe

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!

2008-05-20 Thread GuyDebord
kphinney;303651 Wrote: > Esoterica was exactly what I wanted to avoid. Twisted + FUSE = iTunes > playing FLAC. > > Converting my entire FLAC library would require a lot of esoteric > programs that do not work as seamlessly. > JUST USE "MAX", IT WILL CONVERT ALL YOUR FLACS IN ONE GO, CANNO

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD red book de-emphasis?

2008-05-20 Thread Timothy Stockman
The emphasis bit is not normally stored on WAV, FLAC, MP3 or any other computer-format audio files. Therefore, you cannot scan your files to determine if any are pre-emphasized. The only place I know of where this infomation is available is on the cue sheet (either .CUE files or embedded in FLAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD red book de-emphasis?

2008-05-20 Thread Phil Leigh
lauret;303704 Wrote: > EAC adds a 'FLAGS PRE' line in the cue-sheet, I don't know if the FLAC > format has the capability for pre-emphasis. I see...but if I don't use cue sheets...is there anyhting embedded in the flac file itself? Thanks Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BE

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD red book de-emphasis?

2008-05-20 Thread lauret
EAC adds a 'FLAGS PRE' line in the cue-sheet, I don't know if the FLAC format has the capability for pre-emphasis. -- lauret lauret's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17632 View this thread: http://

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD red book de-emphasis?

2008-05-20 Thread Phil Leigh
Could someone explain to me how to scan (in XP) my hard drive with 30k flac files (ripped with EAC), to check if the pre-emphasis flag is set? Thanks Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Alt

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD red book de-emphasis?

2008-05-20 Thread lauret
Hi, I bought my Duet today, I'm very very pleased with it! It's everything I need, except the pre-emphasis handling. I have all my CD's ripped on my pc with single FLAC and cue-sheet. Some CD's have a pre-emphasis bit, witch can be seen in the cue-sheet. Is it a lot of trouble to implement the s

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Klipsch RC-52 with Klipsch Quintet IIs

2008-05-20 Thread dsendecki
Right now I run Klipsch Quintet IIs: http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/quintet-ii.aspx with a Klipsch KSW-10 sub: http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/ksw-10.aspx Sounds good, but I would appreciate a fuller centre. I have a chance to get the RC-52 centre channel for a good deal: ht

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!

2008-05-20 Thread kphinney
GuyDebord;303588 Wrote: > But why got thru all of this if you can easily convert flacs to alacs > and viceversa? I assume that if you are using mac server you will never > "need" flacs, not even if you want to take them to go... > Is there some esoteric belief behind this post? Esoterica was exa

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!

2008-05-20 Thread Nikhil
well .. I just tried TwistedFLAC on my G4 PPC mini and all I get is a spinning beach-ball ... had to restart twice :( . I know the MacFUSE part is fine, because NTFS-3G works perfectly. I will wait until someone gets this running on the platform. Firefly will suffice until then. -- Nikhil

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!

2008-05-20 Thread Nikhil
GuyDebord;303588 Wrote: > But why got thru all of this if you can easily convert flacs to alacs > and viceversa? I assume that if you are using mac server you will never > "need" flacs, not even if you want to take them to go... > Is there some esoteric belief behind this post? Well .. its not r

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!

2008-05-20 Thread GuyDebord
kphinney;303541 Wrote: > It's been a while since I lasted posted or even had time to read this, > my favorite Community Forum. But I found something that may be of > interest to the Mac users out there. If you're like me you've been > waiting for Apple to include FLAC capabilites in iTunes (& Q

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!

2008-05-20 Thread pichonCalavera
Nikhil Wrote: > > 1) mp3fs: Works similarly to the way your method does i.e. creates a > virtual filesystem based on MacFUSE. But instead of WAVs, the files are > converted to mp3s at a bit rate that you decide. It is useful if you > want to sync parts of your flac collection with a portable aud