Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox upgrades

2008-11-01 Thread dennis55
Laburum,glad you're enjoying the new SB3. i too used to have one connected to an external NOS dac and found the sound very acceptable. my cd player then was a Linn Ikemi,a very good sound source. around this time(6-8 months )ago Linn produced two new products :KLIMAX DS and Akurate DS players and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Flame wars for children

2008-11-01 Thread dennis55
Funkstar, this is all very "fishy". dennis -- dennis55 dennis55's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8884 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54483 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox upgrades

2008-11-01 Thread Labarum
bhaagensen;355638 Wrote: > This I mean seriously; if its mainly because of 24/96 support, then > buying a Transporter is a waste. That is my plan. At the moment I have been doing some modest upgrading. You will probably guess that I have not often changed my HiFi. I listen to speakers form time

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox upgrades

2008-11-01 Thread bhaagensen
Labarum;355626 Wrote: > > Now if there was a "Receiver Audiophile" 24/96 or better with just the > streaming hardware and a digital out . . . > It's an immature and fast developing market. I'll agree with you that it is fast developing. Anyway I'm guessing that the next hardware product from S

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox upgrades

2008-11-01 Thread Labarum
bhaagensen;355619 Wrote: > I think it is, others do not and prefer some SB/DAC combo. As I said, I am new to this and reviewing the situation. Now if there was a "Receiver Audiophile" 24/96 or better with just the streaming hardware and a digital out . . . It's an immature and fast developing

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox upgrades

2008-11-01 Thread bhaagensen
Labarum;355586 Wrote: > Now the Transporter cost ten times that. That is a very big jump in any > product range. Can it really be ten times better (whatever that means) Common, it doesn't make sense to speak about x times better; and even if it did quality versus price in the audiophile world i

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox upgrades

2008-11-01 Thread Labarum
I took delivery of my SB yesterday and was soon up and running - well I already has Squeezecentre installed and had been using Softsqueeze on an old Shuttle PC behind the TV - that was noisy, of course so it was not used often. The SB increases the clarity of the FLAC stream into the DAC - quite

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 + Cambridge DacMagic ($400) Review

2008-11-01 Thread ajmitchell
Yes thanks for the correction. It does have manual switching between two digital and one USB source on the front panel. BTW, the distributor in the UK (Richer Sounds) is currently out of stock online (as of Oct/Nov08)but has some in loca stores -- ajmitchell http://www.last.fm/user/ajmitchel

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Flame wars for children

2008-11-01 Thread funkstar
If you don't want someone to read something, put it in a sticky :) Honestly, most forum users just skip over them anyway, so most are redundant. there is a forum I'm on where the admins were bored one night so turned off the search function and you had to find specific text they had hidden in po

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Flame wars for children

2008-11-01 Thread Themis
I've never read this thread, although I can easily imagine the trap... :) -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808 - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Flame wars for children

2008-11-01 Thread Nonreality
Isn't it time to get rid of the flame wars sticky above. It's like a post for all us kids here. We spit and spat but we have fun and always make up. Time for the warning to be gone I think. How about you? -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.-

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best Audiophile Rip and Store?

2008-11-01 Thread Nonreality
DeVerm;355079 Wrote: > You can just play the album in WinAmp too: just open the media-library > and double-click the album > > cheers, > Nick. Yes that's what I've always done in every program. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Whole house Amp

2008-11-01 Thread Nonreality
Skunk;355167 Wrote: > That begs the question, how short must the speaker cable be to merit > discussion in the audiophile forum. > > I would guess, at 8 ohms, around 75-100 feet for 12 gauge romex. I'd love to see the blind tests on radio shack 12 gauge at 40 ft and some fancy crap at 5ft. I