Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread soundcheck
RadioClash;668162 Wrote: ...that ALL the other tweaks must be enabled in order to hear the full benefits of TT 3.0. What are other tweaks!?!? I do think I made pretty clear - more than once - that if you skip any of the modifications, we're not talking about the same subject. TT30 means

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread socistep
guidof;668090 Wrote: OK. As promised, I applied TT3.0 to my bedroom system which is similar to yours in that headphones are fed directly via a tube amp from the Touch's analog outs(see below) and the Touch is networked via Wi-Fi. After a few comparative listens, I concluded that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Questions about a DAC

2011-11-07 Thread darrenyeats
Apesbrain;668137 Wrote: Some other reasonably-priced DACs that I've heard good things about: Cambridge Audio DacMagic Musical Fidelity V-DAC Moon Audio 100D Music Hall dac25.3 Benchmark DAC-1 (a little more expensive but a -Stereophile- Class A product):

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone got Matrix Mini-i or Atoll 100 Dac?

2011-11-07 Thread darrenyeats
Squeezemenicely;667992 Wrote: there is a change of sound through DACs in my environment. When I bought my new CD player NAD CD545 the sound improved a lot - actually that is exactly the sound I am looking for from my Touch. Fair enough! I tried to choose my words very carefully! Ha ha.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread firedog
bobertuk;668022 Wrote: Klaus, Is there any interaction between TT3.0 and 24bit/96KHz flac files? I suddenly can't play them any more - the only recent changes to my system are that I have started using TT3.0 and have updated to LMS 7.7.1 nightly. If I change Touch 'file types' for flac

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread cymbop
Does anybody remember the command prompts to install and tweak 2.0? Klaus has been kind to leave the 2.0 tar file up, and I want to switch back for comparison, but I'm not sure I'll get the commands right. Thanks in advance. -- cymbop

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread RadioClash
cymbop;668223 Wrote: Does anybody remember the command prompts to install and tweak 2.0? Klaus has been kind to leave the 2.0 tar file up, and I want to switch back for comparison, but I'm not sure I'll get the commands right. Thanks in advance. -unpack tar file: tar xvf

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread cymbop
Many thanks, Radioclash. -- cymbop cymbop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50761 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread bobertuk
Hi Klaus, I definitely have a problem with TT3.0 and hi-res audio files! The Touch stops playing and waits to refill the buffer quite frequently and I have so far tried setting the buffer to 8000 with no improvement. After increasing it by 200's and getting to 4000, I increased at 500 each

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread evdplancke
bobertuk;668264 Wrote: Hi Klaus, I definitely have a problem with TT3.0 and hi-res (96kHz/24bit) audio files! The Touch stops playing and waits to refill the buffer quite frequently and I have so far tried setting the buffer to 8000 with no improvement. After increasing it by 200's and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread praganj
bobertuk;668264 Wrote: Hi Klaus, I definitely have a problem with TT3.0 and hi-res (96kHz/24bit) audio files! The Touch stops playing and waits to refill the buffer quite frequently and I have so far tried setting the buffer to 8000 with no improvement. After increasing it by 200's and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread bobertuk
evdplancke;668272 Wrote: I have had a similar problem when trying to transcode to MP3 to SqueezePlay on my Samsung Ace smartphone: my Synology NAS was using about 97% CPU for LAME transcoding and the remaining throughput for streaming was so ridiculously low that the playback buffer got

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread lake_eleven
soundcheck;668177 Wrote: .Beside that I guess that not very many people follow my HW and networking advise. As mentioned before the HW (PS, board mods, SPDIF mods), the network and the server will have a great impact on your sound too. I consider these mods as important as the SW

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread Cut-Throat
I have got an Internet Radio Station that now plays like Chipmunks still installing TT 3.0 - Not all stations however. Is there anything I can do to correct this? Thanks -- Cut-Throat Cut-Throat's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread rgro
Cut-Throat;668329 Wrote: I have got an Internet Radio Station that now plays like Chipmunks since installing TT 3.0 - Not all stations however. Is there anything I can do to correct this? Thanks A known issue aka the chipmonk problem. This only happens with low bit rate radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread guidof
socistep;668197 Wrote: Ok here goes! Last night however I could hear a difference - I changed approach and listened to a passage of a song 30secs to a min then changed to the other input, then back again, my thoughts below - Difference isn't massive and obvious as the Senns generally

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone got Matrix Mini-i or Atoll 100 Dac?

2011-11-07 Thread Squeezemenicely
darrenyeats;668201 Wrote: I hope you find what you're looking for! Darren I hope so too. ;-) I am going to receive a gatorized Caiman soon and hope it does the trick.. But I must admit, that I have fallen in love with the looks of the BIFROST Dac, but looks are not what I am after... (It is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread aubuti
guidof;668346 Wrote: When I moved from the University of Illinois to the University of Maryland, it took me a couple of concert performances to fully appreciate how much worse the sound of DC's Kennedy Center was to that of Urbana's Krannert Center. snip Above all, keep enjoying the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread magiccarpetride
soundcheck;668177 Wrote: I do think I made pretty clear - more than once - that if you skip any of the modifications, we're not talking about the same subject. TT30 means you run the full blown package. If you strip it down feedback becomes kind of irrelevant and misleading. I feel what

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread evdplancke
lake_eleven;668299 Wrote: +1 TCP Optimizer: I have done this once. I think the optimizations are permanent on the system (not lost when server PC restarted). Fidelizer: I set the 'Audiophile' level optimization instead of extreme. Is this ok?. Are the changes done by Fidelizer permanent

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread evdplancke
Spent some time to listening today and yesterday night. Looking at the details, one can may be argue there is more treble here or there or digital sounding effect (allthough I don't remember what analog like means since the late 80's and long before I found interest in audiophile forums).

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread kiat
Hi Was wondering if anyone feel if there is any difference the 2 version? I do feel the 7.6 version seems to sounds better, however it is hard to verify as any installation will cause a rescan which takes 3+ hours -- kiat

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Stylish tiny amp for Touch

2011-11-07 Thread kiat
takes direct digital signal from touch. No need for DAC, Pre or power. http://www.devialet.com/ -- kiat kiat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30044 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread guidof
aubuti;668363 Wrote: And get thyself to the Strathmore Center, my fellow Mer'lander! Absolutely! Strathmore's acoustics are quite good actually. Not much need for mods there. ;-) Guido F. -- guidof MUSIC ROOM: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge - Conrad Johnson Motif

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Stylish tiny amp for Touch

2011-11-07 Thread Mnyb
kiat;668391 Wrote: takes direct digital signal from touch. No need for DAC, Pre or power. http://www.devialet.com/ This looks like they have made a serius attempt of making class-D amps radically better :) A lot of hype( to much ) in the sales blurb, but interesting piece of tech .

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 3.0

2011-11-07 Thread Jeff Flowerday
For those running the Rega DAC, give filter 5 a try if you aren't already. Minimum phase apodizing filter. I had a hard time telling the difference between the filters at first but since upgrading to the Black Cat Veloce coax cable, economical blue jean LC-1 rca interconnects and touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Stylish tiny amp for Touch

2011-11-07 Thread kiat
Mnyb;668406 Wrote: This looks like they have made a serius attempt of making class-D amps radically better :) A lot of hype( to much ) in the sales blurb, but interesting piece of tech . Heard it in action recently. Definitely never heard any class-D amp sounds so good before. If I have