Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I am torn...

2009-11-25 Thread Phil Leigh
pfarrell;489353 Wrote: > Phil Leigh wrote: > > Personally I'd buy/borrow a modded Oppo and rip the SACD's as > 24/88.2 > > and play them on the TP. By far the neatest solution IMO and the > sound > > quality will be indistinguishable from playing the SACD on an SACD > > player. > > But that's jus

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I am torn...

2009-11-25 Thread Pat Farrell
Phil Leigh wrote: > Personally I'd buy/borrow a modded Oppo and rip the SACD's as 24/88.2 > and play them on the TP. By far the neatest solution IMO and the sound > quality will be indistinguishable from playing the SACD on an SACD > player. > But that's just my opinion of course. Or, if you own g

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I am torn...

2009-11-25 Thread Phil Leigh
Personally I'd buy/borrow a modded Oppo and rip the SACD's as 24/88.2 and play them on the TP. By far the neatest solution IMO and the sound quality will be indistinguishable from playing the SACD on an SACD player. But that's just my opinion of course. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I am torn...

2009-11-25 Thread empty99
I got about 50 SACD discs that I enjoyed a lot, when I really got the time to sit down and listen intently but most of the time, my SB3 thru my MF A3.24 DAC is very satisfying. I wanted the TP bad, to simplify everything, ie get rid of my passive pot and associated wirings to the amps. The problem

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Well, this should be fun!

2009-11-25 Thread Mnyb
This might be the get rich quick scam that works: 1. Get funky home decor items from a fire sale or flee market 2. 1% markup . Sell box loades of them Your pension plan: Offer "upgrades" to "it" they must be returned to factory to have their. positron supply recharged or something. -- M

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Well, this should be fun!

2009-11-25 Thread empty99
radish;489314 Wrote: > http://www.lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html > > A total steal at just $959! (15% off if you buy 3!) Damn these people almost convinced me to buy their battery powered DAC a while back because they made it sounds so logical, what with master clock setup and how to mod you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Well, this should be fun!

2009-11-25 Thread kmr
or, to adapt Richard Pryor, maybe this is God's way of telling an audiophile he/she has too much money... -- kmr kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Well, this should be fun!

2009-11-25 Thread Mnyb
Do you reckon if i manage with 4 of these for my boom ? ;) maybe also one drop of this on the display: http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/odl/One_Drop_Liquid.html I must stay away from these treads this week I did a especially painful tonsillectomy this Monday. I laugh to much right now I might

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Well, this should be fun!

2009-11-25 Thread radish
> > The Blackbody is a high-tech audio accessory which greatly enhances > your audio playback experience by addressing the interaction of your > audio gear's circuitry with ambient electromagnetic phenomena and > modifying this interplay. The Blackbody takes advantage of the quantum > nature of p

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] best internet station sound quality?

2009-11-25 Thread amcluesent
http://radio.cesnet.cz had/have an experimental FLAC stream. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71701

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SPDIF is evil

2009-11-25 Thread Phil Leigh
khewa;489040 Wrote: > I'm contemplating getting the Legato USB to SPDIF converter > (http://www.analogresearch-technology.net/LEGATO.html), which is using > the USB asynchronous technology to convert the USB data to SPDIF signal. > In your opinion, this product would not lead to a substantial > i

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SPDIF is evil

2009-11-25 Thread JohnSwenson
I don't have Sean's scope but I have been measuring jitter indirectly using a spectrum analyzer on the clock (not the audio out, but the clock itself). This is quite sensitive to changes in jitter, you can see spectrum changes going through gates as Sean mentioned and its also very good for lookin

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The end of the CD player :-)

2009-11-25 Thread maggior
riffer;489092 Wrote: > I ran out of shelf space a few days ago, so I pulled the CD player. I > only used it for the first play of a CD. The CD would then enter the > ripping queue and be stored when that was done. I suppose, if I bought > more CD's, this would be a problem. For now, I suppose

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The end of the CD player :-)

2009-11-25 Thread riffer
I ran out of shelf space a few days ago, so I pulled the CD player. I only used it for the first play of a CD. The CD would then enter the ripping queue and be stored when that was done. I suppose, if I bought more CD's, this would be a problem. For now, I suppose I will just build up a queue

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter and Tact RCS 2.2X

2009-11-25 Thread loserica
Interestingthanks guys This gives me another ideea : did you try to force the TP to upsample the 16/44.1 content to 24/96 ? Does it sound better ? Or ar least different ? I am referring to the context where you don't have an external processor. -- loserica --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SPDIF is evil

2009-11-25 Thread khewa
bhaagensen;486155 Wrote: > Because carrying the signal asynchronously as far as possible in the > chain is a simple solution which by definition avoids any (replay-chain) > generated jitter, since there won't be any. It has to get synchronous at > some point, but this should be as close to the da