Why not just buy a Linn Sneaky-DS?
You can get them for around £800, a superb streamer and DAC - like a
squeezebox or Touch done properly, so no USB or s/pdif jitter issues.
Proper hi-fi from a hi-fi company. You can use a UPnP Server or
Squeezecenter with it.
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JezA
Why not just buy a Linn Sneaky-DS network player?
You can get them for around £800, a superb streamer and DAC - like a
squeezebox or Touch done properly, so no USB or s/pdif jitter issues.
Proper hi-fi from a hi-fi company. Handles all formats upto 24/192. You
can use a UPnP Server or
Thanks Phoenix and Ralphpnj for the very interesting and informative
comments. Having grown up with vinyl I have many of the same feelings
toward it that you have, but with only 200 LPs and a marginal turntable
I havent got a huge amount invested in vinyl at this point. Would it be
fair to say
duke43j;612789 Wrote:
Thanks Phoenix and Ralphpnj for the very interesting and informative
comments. Having grown up with vinyl I have many of the same feelings
toward it that you have, but with only 200 LPs and a marginal turntable
I havent got a huge amount invested in vinyl at this
Mnyb;612718 Wrote:
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
Hello,
i would like to modding my Transporter, but need some help.
Has someone the service manual from the TP and good ideas?
regards
Aronier
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yea the LP revival charming but whats next, hand written books on
parchment with illuminations ( boo Gutenberg ) .
But all kinds off limited exclusive packaging to sell to collectors
arise as alternetive revenue for musicians , I'm sometimes lured into
it too having some limited edition remixes
Mnyb;612815 Wrote:
yea the LP revival charming but whats next, hand written books on
parchment with illuminations ( boo Gutenberg ) .
But all kinds off limited exclusive packaging to sell to collectors
arise as alternetive revenue for musicians , I'm sometimes lured into
it too having
magiccarpetride;612818 Wrote:
Believe it or not, I've seen a magazine purporting the comeback of the
cassette!
Yikees time to get that old ghettoblaster dusted off and learn some
breakdance
http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/
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Mnyb
Mnyb;612718 Wrote:
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..
Not exactly. I'm fully aware of the fact that CDs have
My personal advice - do not do that ! If you don't like the sound, look
for other things in your audio system to improve before jumping on
Transporter.
If you posses the knowledge to mod anything you don't really need
service manual. Transporter's layout is pretty straightforward.
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gizek
Mnyb;612822 Wrote:
Yikees time to get that old ghettoblaster dusted off and learn some
breakdance
http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/
No need to break out that old boombox when you can just turn your iPod
into a boombox:
Robin Bowes;612349 Wrote:
Mr. Soundcheck,
I've not tried your mods, but I can see why some of them might make a
difference, ie. they are at least plausible.
Here is a guy who obviously knows what he's talking about because, hey,
he hasn't tried the mods.
Of course, that makes perfect
duke43j;612789 Wrote:
Thanks Phoenix and Ralphpnj for the very interesting and informative
comments. Having grown up with vinyl I have many of the same feelings
toward it that you have, but with only 200 LPs and a marginal turntable
I havent got a huge amount invested in vinyl at this
magiccarpetride;612839 Wrote:
Here is a guy who obviously knows what he's talking about because, hey,
he hasn't tried the mods.
Of course, that makes perfect sense, when you think about it.
Meanwhile, some of us nutters have tried the mods, and, naturally, the
joke is on us.
As the
magiccarpetride;612839 Wrote:
As the saying goes: there is a sucker born every minute.
Another saying goes: It takes one to know one. ;)
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garym;612842 Wrote:
But of course to be fair you took just a portion of his comment and used
it out of context. He was not talking about the mods at all (and in fact
he's agreeing that the mods *may be useful), but rather making a
comment on the likelihood of the SERVER (Windows vs Linux) or
magiccarpetride;612858 Wrote:
Fair enough. I wasn't actually commenting on that bit, just in general
talking about the absurdity of people who, having not tried the thing
they're commenting on, still feel entitled and fully justified to jump
to conclusions.
To be certain that hearing a
darrenyeats;612873 Wrote:
To be certain that hearing a difference means there is a difference in
the sound waves arriving at one's ears, is jumping to conclusions in
many people's view.
If you can hear a difference consistently when blind, that is another
matter naturally.
But the
JezA
Good idea - I did know that the sneaky existed - but I wanted the
flexibility of choosing my own flavour of DACs at the end of an
appropriate transport like the SB - or even a computer - or perhaps
even a NAS!
I've found out about this little device recently from Musical Fidelity
I am trying to add ogg with this line
ogg flc * 00:04:20:22:1a:ea
# IFRD:{RESAMPLE=-r %d}
[sox] -t ogg $FILE$ -t flac -C 0 $RESAMPLE$ - | [InguzDSP] -id
00:04:20:22:1a:ea -wav -wavo -d 24 | [flac] -cs -0 --totally-silent
-
It pops up under file type but I don´t her it.
Anny
Just came across this on the Stereophile website.
http://www.stereophile.com/content/hifiction-thales-av-tonearm
The tonearm supposedly reduces linear tangential tracking error to
something like .0008. But of course there is no tracking error
whatsoever on a digital recording.
But it only
On 21/02/11 19:26, magiccarpetride wrote:
Robin Bowes;612349 Wrote:
Mr. Soundcheck,
I've not tried your mods, but I can see why some of them might make
a difference, ie. they are at least plausible.
Here is a guy who obviously knows what he's talking about because,
hey, he hasn't tried
ralphpnj;612790 Wrote:
I absolutely would not invest in vinyl were I starting from scratch.
High resolution (24bit/88.296kHz) digital is pretty much the equal of
vinyl in sound quality with all the advantages of digital and none of
the disadvantages of vinyl.
Actually, basic digital CD is
pski;612705 Wrote:
So? I guess we are supposed to be impressed? I don't understand your
point
I'm glad you enjoy your vinyl as much as you seem to enjoy touting your
setup. Why don't you just go ahead and post how much you paid?
Thanks for being Fox News: Perhaps this is why so many young
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