Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter samplerate

2009-01-11 Thread Phil Leigh
DCtoDaylight;382497 Wrote: To snap this thread back to it's original topic, I had to laugh a bit at the irony, or maybe idiocy, of what I was listening to a bit earlier... I'm sure Pat will chuckle a bit, if I say I was enjoying some of the Mellotron playing on a Moody Blues album in

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter samplerate

2009-01-11 Thread Phil Leigh
grahamn;382557 Wrote: Has anyone else tried playing 192KHz 24bit files on the Transporter? I have ripped a set of FLACs from the Eagles Hotel California DVD Audio disc. SqueezeCenter recognises the files as 192KHz 24bit format and my Transporter plays them perfectly via coax S/PDIF and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter samplerate

2009-01-11 Thread grahamn
Phil Leigh;382573 Wrote: Well technically they aren't being played perfectly since they are being downsampled ... which version of SC are you running? 7.3.1 At least they do play... I also have a TViX which just reboots if I attempt to play anything higher res than a 16 bit 44.1KHz FLAC.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter samplerate

2009-01-11 Thread Phil Leigh
grahamn;382584 Wrote: 7.3.1 At least they do play... I also have a TViX which just reboots if I attempt to play anything higher res than a 16 bit 44.1KHz FLAC. The way that high-res files (higher than the native capability of your player that is) are streamed changed in 7.3.1 (and again

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Good news for wow players

2009-01-11 Thread Alisa
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BW Lossless article

2009-01-11 Thread Kvaks
darrenyeats;377959 Wrote: My opinion is that talk of consumer formats (high rate MP3 vs red book vs SACD vs hi-rez PCM) is rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. The real story is the Loudness War and the dumbing down of production values. Almost every remaster I've come across sounds

Re: still improving the sb classic�s sound quality

2009-01-11 Thread duesentrieb
Themis;382061 Wrote: I think you'd better post this in the diy section, you'll get more answers. yeah, maybe you´re right themis, i followed your suggestion and started it again in diy: butterworth filter design/assembly of the sb classic??? btw.: there is just a single order lowpass

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread darrenyeats
sebp;381883 Wrote: Back to 70+ years old singers, I recently discovered (Little) Jimmy Scott's amazing cover of Nothing Compares To You, and I immediately fell in love with it. That's pure emotion. Searched for this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread badbob
Apple really needs to release allow itunes to be open source. -- badbob badbob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7358 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57806

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread ralphpnj
badbob;382714 Wrote: Apple really needs to release allow itunes to be open source. Apple will NEVER do anything even remotely open source. Just look how long it has taken them to give up on DRM and then only because they were/are losing market share to the DRM free mp3's available on Amazon.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread Phil Leigh
ralphpnj;381839 Wrote: His hair. and just about everything else including the fact whenever one does a search for Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams almost always shows up instead. Foul, very foul. I should note that several recent DBT's have conclusively confirmed that Ryan Adams and Bryan

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread ralphpnj
Phil Leigh;382719 Wrote: who the F is Ryan Adams? I'm not sure if you're joking but in case you're not here's a link to his bio on All Music Guide: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amgsql=11:difexqujldke~T1 -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread badbob
Apple will NEVER do anything even remotely open source I was just saying that as my experience with people with ipods, LAN music playback, DRM, ipod synching etc. If I do buy a music player, or listen to music it'll be over non copy protected, wide platform. ie my MP3 player has

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread Phil Leigh
ralphpnj;382722 Wrote: I'm not sure if you're joking but in case you're not here's a link to his bio on All Music Guide: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amgsql=11:difexqujldke~T1 :o) - got ya! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread ralphpnj
badbob;382730 Wrote: LAN music playback Nice term. I've never seen music/media streaming quite expressed like that but that is, in fact, exactly what streaming music/media is - playback via a local area network, be it wireless or wired. Very good, I'll have to start using that term. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread badbob
ralphpnj;382750 Wrote: Nice term. I've never seen music/media streaming quite expressed like that but that is, in fact, exactly what streaming music/media is - playback via a local area network, be it wireless or wired. Very good, I'll have to start using that term. Sarscasm is the lowest

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread darrenyeats
ralphpnj;382750 Wrote: Nice term. I've never seen music/media streaming quite expressed like that but that is, in fact, exactly what streaming music/media is - playback via a local area network, be it wireless or wired. Very good, I'll have to start using that term. Since Internet radio is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread ralphpnj
badbob;382753 Wrote: Sarscasm is the lowest form of wit. Seriously, I was not being sarcastic. I have really not seen that term before and I do like it. Sorry if you thought otherwise. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 'Last.fm'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread ralphpnj
darrenyeats;382756 Wrote: Since Internet radio is WAN and we have the term network music player can I suggest network music playback? Darren Also a good and more encompassing term but there is also other media playback besides music such as pictures and video so perhaps networked media

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread Themis
HDD music playback ? :D -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808 - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread ralphpnj
Themis;382783 Wrote: HDD music playback ? :D What about flash and hybrid drives? -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread Themis
ralphpnj;382824 Wrote: What about flash and hybrid drives? Flash/hybrid are used for performance critical applications. Not for non-critical storage like music. Right now and for some years to come(and until memristors become really cheap), HDD are the perfect media to store music. -- Themis

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread mags65
Themis;382848 Wrote: Not for non-critical storage like music. Non-critical? HEATHEN! -- mags65 mags65's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19085 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple ends DRM and improves quality

2009-01-11 Thread Themis
mags65;382874 Wrote: Non-critical? HEATHEN! Permormance non-critical... :) I mean, when even a NAS can stream it, no need for a high-tech media. ;) -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808 - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus

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

2009-01-11 Thread Peter314
Phil Leigh;379406 Wrote: I'd recommend a 1.5m coax spdif cable between SB and DAC. cost is not a factor but length is! Why? What is so special about this length? -- Peter314 Peter314's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter samplerate

2009-01-11 Thread grahamn
Phil Leigh;382594 Wrote: The way that high-res files (higher than the native capability of your player that is) are streamed changed in 7.3.1 (and again in 7.3.2). I'm not entirely sure how this works for the TP; on the classic your files would be converted to 320 kbs MP3(!) via lame in