Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread adyc
michael123;516935 Wrote: > No, I did not try. Did you compare it to Transporter? Other DACs? Yes. I have transporter and MW transporter. Q9 beats both of them. -- adyc adyc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Touch versus Transporter - beta testers chime in please

2010-02-13 Thread Curt962
FWIW...Since my Transporter constitutes the entire front end of my system...I've simply used the internal jumpers in my TP to reduce output by -10db. This in turn allows me to have the TPs digital volume control in the 75-100 range for normal to loud listening levels. More than adequate. I'm

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread michael123
adyc;516890 Wrote: > Have you tried Ayre Q9 DAC? It is a USB DAC with minimum phase filter. I > got one in my setup. I think the sound is quite special. No, I did not try. Did you compare it to Transporter? Other DACs? -- michael123

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread adyc
Have you tried Ayre Q9 DAC? It is a USB DAC with minimum phase filter. I got one in my setup. I think the sound is quite special. -- adyc adyc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12564 View this thre

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread michael123
Robin Bowes;516823 Wrote: > On 13/02/10 16:56, michael123 wrote: > > > > Heard Weiss Minerva yesterday. > > It is a very precise instrument. I do not think it is years ahead of > > Transporter but I think it is a bit more 'refined' with high-rez > music, > > and of course with 192/24 that sound

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Bowes
On 13/02/10 16:56, michael123 wrote: > > Heard Weiss Minerva yesterday. > It is a very precise instrument. I do not think it is years ahead of > Transporter but I think it is a bit more 'refined' with high-rez music, > and of course with 192/24 that sound better than their downsampled > version to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread Themis
Who has recordings with -say- 80dB transient passages ? oO -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Croft 25Pre and Series 7 power - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC Upgrade. Weiss DAC202 (Minerva) or Berkeley Alpha?

2010-02-13 Thread michael123
Heard Weiss Minerva yesterday. It is a very precise instrument. I do not think it is years ahead of Transporter but I think it is a bit more 'refined' with high-rez music, and of course with 192/24 that sound better than their downsampled version to 96KHz on Transporter. I cannot say yet that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-13 Thread tingtong5
PM sent :-) -- tingtong5 tingtong5's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9671 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69145 ___ aud

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-13 Thread michael123
tingtong5;516634 Wrote: > Yep, it has more body (in a positive way) to the sound and almost sounds > a bit tubey :-) Indeed! 1) I spent couple of hours yesterday to integrate back polyphase & rabbit :-) 2) I also fixed the dithering bug (another few hours..) 3) I made a command line switch to (

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-13 Thread tingtong5
michael123;516615 Wrote: > I think polyphase returned me some 'punch' I was missing with the 'rate' > effect Yep, it has more body (in a positive way) to the sound and almost sounds a bit tubey :-) -- tingtong5 tingtong5

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-13 Thread tingtong5
michael123;516524 Wrote: > took me couple of hours to integrate polyphase back into 14.3 > > Did you use "polyphase -cutoff 1.0" ? Yes I used -cutoff 1.0, tried 0.85 as well but we preferred 1.0. I also tried to integrate polyphase into 14.3 source code and thougt it compiled without errors it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-13 Thread tingtong5
michael123;516461 Wrote: > - What was the command line for minimum phase? > - Which SoX version did you use for polyphase and rabbit? Could you > please post command line as well? Hello Michael, Sure, I compared these: Code: /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-lin