Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter versus SB3 with Beresford DAC

2008-11-15 Thread Labarum
Phil Leigh;358871 Wrote: In all seriousness, I suggest you order a 1.5m (this length is important - 1m is too short) BlueJeans Belden 1694a spdif coax cable - it will cost peanuts (well OK - about £20+). Well, Phil, I did order one and it arrived today. You may be right. My initial

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter versus SB3 with Beresford DAC

2008-11-15 Thread mswlogo
Labarum;360242 Wrote: Well, Phil, I did order one and it arrived today. You may be right. My initial impression, listening to piano music, is that the sound is cleaner and the ambiance around the piano is more convincing. Yes, very subtle and subjective observations. Something to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter versus SB3 with Beresford DAC

2008-11-15 Thread Labarum
mswlogo;360270 Wrote: Something to listen to with your new cable. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/18 Yea, I know, and I remain sceptical. Stan is probably right: there ain't no difference, or none worth talking about. I bought the cable on the assurance it wasn't worse

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?

2008-11-15 Thread Nonreality
Mnyb;360162 Wrote: Nonreality, id you ever submit a bug on this ? Is it still open, this is the kind of bug I want to vote on. I did but it got put with another bug on soundcheck that had nothing to do with it. That bug was declared fixed but not this problem. I tried a couple of times to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless to WAV?

2008-11-15 Thread Nonreality
Themis;359759 Wrote: You should at least give a try to some modern Scottish. At least Fiona Mackenzie, and perhaps The Aliens. ;) (SB can go up to 24/48) I do like the Scottish albums I've tried. I have The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs. I was hoping the had the sampler in the 24/48 so I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Squeezebox Total Harmonic Distortion (THD+N)

2008-11-15 Thread darrenyeats
Sean, very enlightening. Thanks, Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz - Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass) - PMC AB-1 Dell laptop - JVC UX-C30 mini system darrenyeats's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 or Duet for sound quality?

2008-11-15 Thread Ben Diss
I'm confused, and please don't think I'm being a nudge, but if you own both why don't your listen to both and decide for yourself? -- Ben Diss 'SB3' (http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html) - 'Lavry DA10' (http://www.lavryengineering.com/productspage_da_10.html) - 'BAT VK-31SE'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter versus SB3 with Beresford DAC

2008-11-15 Thread mswlogo
Labarum;360288 Wrote: Yea, I know, and I remain sceptical. Stan is probably right: there ain't no difference, or none worth talking about. I bought the cable on the assurance it wasn't worse than the optical link, because I wanted an extra switched input. I am fully expecting more of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 or Duet for sound quality?

2008-11-15 Thread konut
ar-t;360148 Wrote: Yes, they are, but. There are some, I repeat, -some- minor sidebands in the SPDIF output on the SB3. These are 60 Hz related. Mind you, they are down near the noise floor. Pat Would this have something to do with the power supply? Or, are they spurious

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 or Duet for sound quality?

2008-11-15 Thread pablolie
konut;360382 Wrote: Would this have something to do with the power supply? Or, are they spurious artifacts relating to the display? Would a battery supply mitigate this? I seem to recall this was one of the effects upgrading to a linear power sully in the SB3 helps address. The SB3 has a DAC

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dummy Guide to Digital HiFi

2008-11-15 Thread pablolie
I was asked by a number of people to put together a Dummy Guide to digital music, and also happen to know the people that publish the official series. I am interested to see if this very knowledgable forum has a few people willing to collaboratively put this together and co-author it, since the