Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Transporter firmware 84

2010-10-25 Thread Archimago
michael123;584720 Wrote: Are you working with SQLite? Did you disable automatic scanning? Yeah, I tried both SQLite and MySQL... Also turned off the auto scanning. Even when I got a partial library scanned, I noticed it had problems with SqueezePlay I had running on the Mac :-(. This was

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Transporter firmware 84

2010-10-25 Thread michael123
Then I indeed was lucky... This beta is a whole mystery to me.. -- michael123 michael123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23745 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Transporter firmware 84

2010-10-25 Thread slate
Archimago;584718 Wrote: For some reason 7.6 gets stuck with the album art scanning on me :-(. About a month back some improvements/redesign were made in the artwork handling http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82087 ; but it have since been found that it have problems with embedded

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
I've spent the weekend listening to various high definition digital sources (24-bit/96 kHz, delivered via my Logitech Squeezebox Touch player). After a while, I've switched back to listening to some of my low definition sources (the CDs I've ripped to AIFF; basically, 16-bit/44.1 kHz). What

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Skeptical about the ABX tests

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
earwaxer9;584875 Wrote: The flip side of this quote is that everything makes a difference. As time marches on, I have become more and more a believer in this. I was once - one of many - a doubter. I believed that wire could not make a difference. It was about conduction of electrons.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread Wombat
The most ever question is how both versions were treated, mastered, transferred... Don´t let you fool to easy and educate yourself to compare the material directly on a technical basis, not listening. You can´t be giving serious advices on a forum how something sounds different if you even don´t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
Wombat;585021 Wrote: The most ever question is how both versions were treated, mastered, transferred... Don´t let you fool to easy and educate yourself to compare the material directly on a technical basis, not listening. You can´t be giving serious advices on a forum how something sounds

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread Wombat
magiccarpetride;585051 Wrote: Same as I never ask to read the recipe at the restaurant, I never look into any graphs, plots, or spectral analyses while listening to music (doing that would give me a massive headache). Please read my post again carefully. All I'm talking about is my

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
Wombat;585055 Wrote: Since you and me don´t know what exactly you are listening against datawise this is not damn straight to me. It is more like someone expressing esotheric feelings about the magic of bytes. I'm not listening to data. I'm listening to music. If music is something

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Skeptical about the ABX tests

2010-10-25 Thread mlsstl
magiccarpetride;585013 Wrote: I'm with you. Like I've already mentioned, even repeating the exact same 5 seconds of the song opening while everything else stays the same can sound very different. Sometimes I do it five-six times in a row (i.e. play the first 5 seconds of a song, then

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread earwaxer9
magiccarpetride;585012 Wrote: What shocked me at that moment is how staggeringly different CDs sound! Try upsampling red book to 24/96 - I have found that I could not hear much difference between native high res. and unsampled 16/44.1 (at least with the Transporter). Sound quality is more

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread earwaxer9
magiccarpetride;585012 Wrote: (everything became quite two dimensional in the sound stage), as well as lack of finer details (I've lost the ability to follow the prolonged dying out of the cymbals sounding in the background, something that I got quite used to while listening to the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Transporter firmware 84

2010-10-25 Thread earwaxer9
I just got the 7.6.0 and firmware 84 up and rolling. I may be expecting an improvement. No doubt. It sounds frickin great on first blush. I little buggy for sure right now! Took me a few trys and uninstalls. Blues piano sounds awesome! More analog. More later. -- earwaxer9 System: modified

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Transporter firmware 84

2010-10-25 Thread earwaxer9
The 84 forces me to take some time before installing my ELNA electrolytics. They should be here tomorrow! I'm liking what I hear! Analog. I find I am cranking it more. Not sure what thats about. It just sounds clean. -- earwaxer9 System: modified Winsome Labs Mouse, modified Maggie MMG's,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Transporter firmware 84

2010-10-25 Thread Robin Bowes
On 26/10/10 00:53, earwaxer9 wrote: The 84 forces me to take some time before installing my ELNA electrolytics. They should be here tomorrow! I'm liking what I hear! Analog. I find I am cranking it more. Not sure what thats about. It just sounds clean. Did you change any settings, other

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread opaqueice
magiccarpetride;585012 Wrote: I've spent the weekend listening to various high definition digital sources (24-bit/96 kHz, delivered via my Logitech Squeezebox Touch player). After a while, I've switched back to listening to some of my low definition sources (the CDs I've ripped to AIFF;

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] High definition digital vs red book

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
earwaxer9;585062 Wrote: Try upsampling red book to 24/96 - I have found that I could not hear much difference between native high res. and unsampled 16/44.1 (at least with the Transporter). Sound quality is more dependent on the quality of the recording/production. How would one go abut