Cat 7e at least, with gold plated connectors at each end! Also disable
the Touch's screen, and analogue output, and hack around with the
firmware a bit.
Never use the SD card or USB port, or the TOSLINK. Feed into a
Wolfson DAC with a length of OFC 75 Ohm coax the length of which should
be a
Percival Sweetwater;616116 Wrote:
Cat 7e at least, with gold plated connectors at each end! Also disable
the Touch's screen, and analogue output, and hack around with the
firmware a bit.
Never use the SD card or USB port, or the TOSLINK. Feed into a
Wolfson DAC with a length of OFC 75 Ohm
Archimago;615755 Wrote:
1. Digital easily beats vinyl (gotta be careful since obviously
reel-to-reel is a different beast) for sound quality.
...
3. In the 16/44 vs. 24/88+ debate, I've done my own ABX'ing with FooBar
over the last 2 years. As Phil already suggested, using the same
May I remind you that the wearing of suitable headgear (as promoted by
our friend MNYB) is mandatory:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+snake-oil+hats-caps
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...
Touch(wired/XP) -
duke43j;616155 Wrote:
FYI Ive found this film clip of an AES workshop that debunks many of
the audiophile myths. I think it puts a lot of things into perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ
Some audiophiles don't want myths debunked. To them it is a religion
and they
Phil Leigh;616156 Wrote:
May I remind you that the wearing of suitable headgear (as promoted by
our friend MNYB) is mandatory:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+snake-oil+hats-caps
Oh dear! How could we have forgotten about the caps. Please Phil do
tell us which style and color cap works best
I would think that the best of worlds would be where the transport feeds
a DAC over a digital interface that supports flow control (e.g.
Ethernet). That way the DAC would be able to fill a local buffer
(memory) with digital data that is then clocked out to the converter
with an independent clock.
ralphpnj;616163 Wrote:
Oh dear! How could we have forgotten about the caps. Please Phil do tell
us which style and color cap works best with which type of music. White
or black for jazz?
Blue for Jazz.
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
duke43j;616181 Wrote:
I would think that the best of worlds would be where the transport feeds
a DAC over a digital interface that supports flow control (e.g.
Ethernet). That way the DAC would be able to fill a local buffer
(memory) with digital data that is then clocked out to the converter
Phil Leigh;616200 Wrote:
It's similar, but the BEST way to connect transport to Dac is via i2s,
with a clock connection from dac to transport, so that the dac clock
drives the transport.
Yes, that may work just as well if the time delays across the interface
are accounted for. But I don't
duke43j;616181 Wrote:
I think that is the way the Wavelength DAC works using a USB interface.
From reading the literature, it sounds like it controls the flow of
data by sending NAKs (not acknowledge) back to the source which
effectively tells the source to retransmit the data (thereby
All of my experimentation thus far has led me to believe that the
current release of the program is broken. Its seems like Vanderham or
the folks at Solostatic
[http://www.solostatic.com/wordpress_solostatic/ervaringen-met-de-logitech-squeezebox-duet/]
have access to an older release.
I'm
Hi All,
Sorry for the Spam, but I thought fellow audiophiles might be
interested.
I no longer have my Transporter, so my passive pre amp that I build up
from quality parts is not longer needed. I used it between by
Transporter and a pair of Bryston Mono amps (all gone now).
The pre-amp uses a
On 07/03/11 17:42, Phil Leigh wrote:
ralphpnj;616163 Wrote:
Oh dear! How could we have forgotten about the caps. Please Phil do tell
us which style and color cap works best with which type of music. White
or black for jazz?
Blue for Jazz.
Kind of...
--
Feed that ego and you starve the
duke43j;616210 Wrote:
Yes, that may work just as well if the time delays across the interface
are accounted for. But I don't see how that would be better.
I suggest you read up on it - it's been established best practice for
about 20 years!
There are no time delays (electrons travel at speed
AlexMurphy;616227 Wrote:
All of my experimentation thus far has led me to believe that the
current release of the program is broken. Its seems like Vanderham or
the folks at Solostatic
[http://www.solostatic.com/wordpress_solostatic/ervaringen-met-de-logitech-squeezebox-duet/]
have access
Robin Bowes;616231 Wrote:
On 07/03/11 17:42, Phil Leigh wrote:
ralphpnj;616163 Wrote:
Oh dear! How could we have forgotten about the caps. Please Phil do
tell
us which style and color cap works best with which type of music.
White
or black for jazz?
Blue for Jazz.
Kind
Just swopped out my Duet for a Touch and then tried the touchtoolbox
mods.
I prefer the sound of the standard unmodified Touch myself.
But my thanks go out to SC for the advise to change the file settings
for Flac as this made a huge difference for me.
Well that and also always ensuring that
earwaxer9;615708 Wrote:
hahahahaha!!
--
darrenyeats
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503.
SB3, SB Touch
SqueezeControl for Android
Midnight;616256 Wrote:
Just swopped out my Duet for a Touch and then tried the touchtoolbox
mods.
I prefer the sound of the standard unmodified Touch myself.
But my thanks go out to SC for the advise to change the file settings
for Flac as this made a huge difference for me.
Well
Midnight;616256 Wrote:
Very pleased with the Touch much better sound thatn the old Duet
Well, it's already sounding a lot better out of the box, streaming FLAC
natively.
--
sebp
'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/sebp)
magiccarpetride;616275 Wrote:
Highly recommended that you bypass the Touch built-in DAC and use the
digital coax output into the dedicated high quality DAC. Makes a huge
difference in sound quality.
Wot more money already ?!!
What would you recommend?
--
Midnight
Phil Leigh;616239 Wrote:
There are no time delays (electrons travel at speed of light...
Not -quite- that fast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_propagation_speed
but probably quick enough... :)
--
Peter314
Midnight;616278 Wrote:
Wot more money already ?!!
What would you recommend?
The touch has a very nice DAC. unless you have money to spend and
already have really good speakers, I wouldn't worry about a DAC. If
you do want a DAC, I've always liked my Benchmark DAC. If I had the
touch first,
garym;616286 Wrote:
The touch has a very nice DAC. unless you have money to spend and
already have really good speakers, I wouldn't worry about a DAC. If
you do want a DAC, I've always liked my Benchmark DAC. If I had the
touch first, I would not have purchased the benchmark.
It's my point,
Midnight;616278 Wrote:
Wot more money already ?!!
What would you recommend?
At the entry level, I'd recommend Gatorized Caiman DAC. It'll set you
back by about $380, but it's going to make your system sound like a
million bucks. I've tried other DACs, some even three times more
expensive,
magiccarpetride;616311 Wrote:
At the entry level, I'd recommend Gatorized Caiman DAC. It'll set you
back by about $380, but it's going to make your system sound like a
million bucks. I've tried other DACs, some even three times more
expensive, and Caiman gives them good run for their money.
Midnight;616314 Wrote:
I see it has a headphone stage as well.
Any good?
Unfortunately, I think that Caiman is only good at one thing -- doing
the Digital-to-Analog conversion. I'm singularly unimpressed by its
headphone stage. I think you can get a much better sounding, dedicated
headphone
Peter314;616283 Wrote:
Not -quite- that fast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_propagation_speed
but probably quick enough... :)
OK - 79% of the speed of light then...
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...
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