I've taken to using RTAlite (free iPhone app) to monitor my listening
volume and am keen to understand how accurate it is. If you've an SPL
and an iPhone would you mind comparing SPL vs iPhone results and posting
your findings?
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audiomuze
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Hi,
So many of us have been patiently waiting for the new Touch.
Beta testers have lived with the Touch for awhile and also been through
new software changes and some of you have experience with the TP, own
dacs, have very nice systems and have likely formed opinions. Yes, I
have read through
Have there been advances in the digital volume control on the new Touch
to help with the problem of not losing resolution when running straight
to amp? (I know there are pros and cons to preamp or no preamp)
What do you mean? If you lower the volume, you have to truncate bits.
Its a feature.
I haven't posted in awhile, but I feel this experience is worth getting
out there to see what others think.
I have been happily listening to my Transporter via wifi for some time
now. No problems, great sound, no dropouts etc. etc. In my comparison to
various USB devices I was quite confident
sounds unrealistic..
unless Transporter has different circuits for Wi-Fi and Ethernet
Wi-Fi bandwidth is more than enough for uncompressed 192/24
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michael123
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Richard,
off-topic (sorry): how would you compare sound of Transporter vs. BADA?
How does it compare on CD? on 24bit music?
How did you connect it, via S/PDIF or AES/EBU?
I am looking at this DAC for some time..
Do you know its real resolution (Transporter's resolution is ~20bit)?
thanks,
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I am using the coaxial digital output from a Squeezebox v3 to feed a
Musical Fidelity X-Dac V3. I am currently ripping my CDs to WMA
lossless. Is this the best format to maximise sound quality? I rip using
Windows Media Player. My O/S is Windows 7 64 bit. Any advice gratefully
received.
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JPatten;512305 Wrote:
I am using the coaxial digital output from a Squeezebox v3 to feed a
Musical Fidelity X-Dac V3. I am currently ripping my CDs to WMA
lossless. Is this the best format to maximise sound quality? I rip using
Windows Media Player. My O/S is Windows 7 64 bit. Any advice
Ditto on the ripper - EAC or dbpoweramp. If you have the space rip to
WAV. No downsides to WAV - it comes right off the disk. dbpoweramp has
better functionality for album art etc. It also can rip 20 bit HDCD to
24 bit files (with the last 4 bits empty).
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earwaxer
Waxer
Transporter
Winsome
I have thought about the NAS as well. My conclusion was that it didnt
really make any sense. Stick with the PC.
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earwaxer
Waxer
Transporter
Winsome labs mouse (modified)
Maggie MMG's (modified)
JPS Labs power cords
Audioquest Granite speaker wire
Silver Bullet interconnect
HSU research sub
Actually there is at least one downside to WAV, and that is its very
poor support for metadata (tags). It is possible to tag WAV files, but
there aren't any widely accepted standards, so what works on SBS may not
work with other software, and vice versa. Tagging support in FLAC is
excellent.
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I don't have a transporter but have done a comparison on someone elses
system with a transporter. I actually preferred the Touch. Its
definitely going to be a personal thing, some will think the Touch
sounds better, some the Transporter.
On the volume control front, the Touch does about as good
The only thing I can think of is that WiFi IS a radio, it is
deliberately sending out electromagnetic waves which CAN get into other
parts of your system and cause subtle sonic degradations.
I'm not sure what the WiFi in the SB does when you hook up the wire. If
it turns off, that MIGHT be a
JohnSwenson;512410 Wrote:
I'm not sure what the WiFi in the SB does when you hook up the wire. If
it turns off, that MIGHT be a possible explanation.
Yes, when you plug in ethernet the wifi card is fully disabled. You
are right, if you have another device in your audio setup that isn't
earwaxer;512245 Wrote:
the wifi approach was superior in some very real ways - jitter being
one.
snip
Over wifi the digital is transferred bit perfect. The clock is also not
a problem.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you keep applying statements that are
true about -ethernet- in
I agree with DC on all of the above, except I cant see how my other
components are that sensitive to wifi from the transporter when there
are plenty of other wifi receiver/transmitters in the area, including
the laptop connected on a short ethernet cable!
I know and agree that it doesn't make
My two cents on the use of volume control on the transporter. I have
been back and forth a few times - using it, then not using it. What is
clear to me at this point is that my system sounds better when the
volume control is defeated!
I know it probably may not make technical sense. I dont
Proximity maybe? RF power falls off with the square of distance, so
cables 1, 2 or 4 inches from the antenna will have significantly less
field influencing them...
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DCtoDaylight
Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio,
and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight
Hi Phil,
The clock from 2.2xp is fed into the Toslink input of the TP, not word
clock in. I found that using conductive interconnect is noiser than
Toslink (optical).
Since you have TacT 2.2x and Transporter, how is your connection b/w
them?
I have everything connected via Toslink, and it
earwaxer wrote:
In my comparison to various USB devices I was quite confident (and still am)
that the wifi
approach was superior in some very real ways - jitter being one. A very
happy camper.
What do you mean comparing USB devices with a Transporter being
different WiFi and wired Ethernet?
Yes, this effect is entirely possible due to latency in Wifi
transmission.
Please download the latency checker here:
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
It plots the latency of your PC against time. If you see latency over
1000 uS every so often on the SBS PC running on Wifi, then
Kuro,
Squeeze products buffer the incoming data. My Boom continues to play
for a good 10 seconds after the ethernet cable is removed.
Should network traffic, PC server response or Wifi latency cause the
input data stream to falter, the squeezebox can dip into its buffer for
data.
Problems will
No-one has a SPL an iPod???
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audiomuze
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