Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter and bryston bda-1

2008-08-08 Thread indexit
Sure, I purchased it from Tim at Audio Advisor for $1,995. Nice guy. They included shipping. I belive Audio Advisor is the only on-line/mail order retailer authorized to sell Bryston in terms of the warranty. -- indexit ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter and bryston bda-1

2008-08-08 Thread indexit
Sure, I purchased it from Tim at Audio Advisor for $1,995. Nice guy. They included shipping. I belive Audio Advisor is the only on-line/mail-order retailer authorized to sell Bryston in terms of the warranty. -- indexit ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter and bryston bda-1

2008-08-08 Thread NewBuyer
indexit;327629 Wrote: > Hi, > > The preamp I have has the mm/mc card in it. No room for the D/A card. > Also the BDA-1 has more inputs including USB, has some nice status > indicators, is a newer design and in the future may have the ability to > have word clock added.And mainly it sounds

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter and bryston bda-1

2008-08-08 Thread indexit
Hi, The preamp I have has the mm/mc card in it. No room for the D/A card. jeff -- indexit indexit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16063 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter and bryston bda-1

2008-08-08 Thread NewBuyer
indexit;327625 Wrote: > Hi, > > I spent the afternoon paying a lot of music on my new bda-1 using the > transporter to drive it. > > As soon as I played the first few seconds of music through the BDA-1 I > was surprised to hear it walking all over how the transporter's > balanced analog out put

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter and bryston bda-1

2008-08-08 Thread indexit
Hi, I spent the afternoon paying a lot of music on my new bda-1 using the transporter to drive it. As soon as I played the first few seconds of music through the BDA-1 I was surprised to hear it walking all over how the transporter's balanced analog out puts sounded. The BDA-1 is cleaner soundi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Another Open Question To Audiophiles With Studio Experience

2008-08-08 Thread honestguv
jonheal;326495 Wrote: > I guess the point I was trying to make was that the claim that studio > monitors are more "accurate" to me is now total bee-ess. In order to support your claim you would have to compare the deviation in sound of your active "studio monitors" with the deviation in sound of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Does a better CD drive make better sound?

2008-08-08 Thread Nonreality
One thing you might get from a little better drive is better C2 error support and faster ripping. dBpoweramp makes good use of C2 while EAC doesn't make good use of it and you don't want to use it. You can get accurate rips from any decent drive with either of these programs but a better drive m

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] is there THAT much difference betweeen SB3 ran through quality DAC and Transporter?

2008-08-08 Thread GeeZa
There's no doubt the Transporter is a lovely bit of kit but whether it'll sound better to your ears than a SB3 + DAC is kinda difficult to say. It does give you a premium one-box solution and that in itself might be worth saving up for. I'm certainly thinking about it. But y'know, it's not especia

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Newbie Q - but related to Audiophiles

2008-08-08 Thread Themis
m1abrams;327419 Wrote: > Give dbpoweramp a try, I use to use EAC and find that for the price EAC > is great. But dbpoweramp just does such a good job with ripping and an > EXCELLENT job with getting metadata including coverart. Again while you > will want the reference version of dbpoweramp whi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Newbie Q - but related to Audiophiles

2008-08-08 Thread Gazjam
Cool, thanks for that. will look into it some more (before I lose any more hair ripping CDs!) Gaz. -- Gazjam Gazjam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18604 View this thread: http://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Newbie Q - but related to Audiophiles

2008-08-08 Thread m1abrams
Gazjam;327390 Wrote: > thanks for that! > > I'm currently using MP3Tag which I find kinda cool. > I'm ripping to FLAC (natch) using EAC and Accurip. Seems to be picking > up most of the Tag info at the ripping stage which is neat, but not > always the album art. > > ..and its free! :-) > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Newbie Q - but related to Audiophiles

2008-08-08 Thread Gazjam
m1abrams;327269 Wrote: > If you have not checked out dbpoweramp. Give it a try, makes the > process slightly less painful for me. Sorry to pimp the product but I > am wish I found it sooner! thanks for that! I'm currently using MP3Tag which I find kinda cool. I'm ripping to FLAC (natch) using

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] digital is digital OR NOT

2008-08-08 Thread NewBuyer
DCtoDaylight;326085 Wrote: > Sorry, I intended to reply to this, but got side tracked... It works > because the SRC doesn't need to rely on the received clock signal to > know the timing. It knows that the incoming sample rate is 44.1k (or > 48k or whatever), and it computes the new data based o