Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Quality of digital outs from the Squeezebox

2011-02-20 Thread stop-spinning
John - that was very interesting, thanks. Can you recommend a well designed asynchronous USB DAC with the proper isolation etc that will work well with the Squeezebox Touch USB facility? That would be interesting, finding a compatible DAC with master clock control over the SB. -- stop-spinning

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital vs. Analog (again)

2011-02-20 Thread Daverz
pski;612705 Wrote: > So? I guess we are supposed to be impressed? I don't understand your > point The post you quoted was a direct answer to the question in the original post. Stop being a jackass. -- Daverz Daverz's Pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital vs. Analog (again)

2011-02-20 Thread Mnyb
Piont was the vinyls limitations also prevent it from being used in the loudness war, hence the oxymoron of digitally recorded stuff being " better" on vinyl ? This is ofcourse a completely perverse state of affairs.. I begun life with vinyl but sold of my 350 vinyls in 1999 to reduce my losses

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital vs. Analog (again)

2011-02-20 Thread ralphpnj
pski;612705 Wrote: > So? I guess we are supposed to be impressed? I don't understand your > point Pray tell how did you manage to get to such a high post with such a bad attitude, lack of common decency and completely worthless contributions? Oh wait I know: by posting only single sentences, whi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital vs. Analog (again)

2011-02-20 Thread pski
ralphpnj;612644 Wrote: > Once again what is fast becoming the "age old argument" of analog versus > digital rears its head only this time in the slightly different form of > vinyl versus digital. > > For what it's worth here is my 2 cents worth: > > I own a fairly good vinyl playback rig (Linn

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 2.0

2011-02-20 Thread johann
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid

2011-02-20 Thread darrenyeats
May I direct you to my post in the Music forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=612657&postcount=8 Loudness War related and so relevant for Audiophiles, hence the cross-post. -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_li

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital vs. Analog (again)

2011-02-20 Thread ralphpnj
Once again what is fast becoming the "age old argument" of analog versus digital rears its head only this time in the slightly different form of vinyl versus digital. For what it's worth here is my 2 cents worth: I own a fairly good vinyl playback rig (Linn LP12 with Ittok arm, Lingo power suppl

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital vs. Analog (again)

2011-02-20 Thread Pneumonic
Phoenix;612427 Wrote: > So what am I to do. Well, my next project is to use a Korg MR1 to > capture the sound of all my vinyl to digital. I am quite confident I > can get these captured records to sound exactly like my analog rig, > plus I will be able to use the Tact's room and speaker cor

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 vs. Airport Express into Benchmark DAC

2011-02-20 Thread dsdreamer
sc53;611105 Wrote: > I bought an Airport Express over the weekend just for fun. I connected > it to my Benchmark DAC (non-USB version) via its optical out and > streaming my lossless music files from my iMac or MacBook Pro was fast > and easy. However--the sound is so poor compared to the same fi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Popping noises with Transporter firmware 81 and 85

2011-02-20 Thread garym
dizzysnakepilot;612467 Wrote: > Different symptom, but when I upgraded my Transporter firmware to fix a > problem where the Transporter asked to upgrade firmware everytime I > switched between streaming and the local server, the Koln concert files > won't play anymore at all. Haven't resolved yet