evdplancke;669118 Wrote:
> I am afraid you are not the only one to know the truth about jitter :)
>
> Just to broaden a little bit your culture, jitter in data networking
> protocols commonly means packet jitter, meaning that the delay between
> packets is varying over time.
> http://en.wikipedi
Phil Leigh;669069 Wrote:
> Let me try it in capitals: THERE IS NO JITTER IN ASYNCHRONOUS PROTOCOLS,
> BECAUSE THERE IS NO CLOCK TO BE OUT OF TIME WITH.
I am afraid you are not the only one to know the truth about jitter :)
Just to broaden a little bit your culture, jitter in data networking
pro
guidof;669107 Wrote:
> Emotiva has a very good reputation. Let us know how you like the XDA.
>
> Guido F.
I will and thanks for the feedback GuidoI have two SB'3 and various
laptop's / PC's so having a external DAC (my first one) will be
interesting.
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Stilly77;669102 Wrote:
> Well, Emotiva just dropped their XDA-1 price by $50 today. I just bought
> one.
>
> http://emotiva.com/xda1.shtm
>
> $250 shipped
>
> I am very happy with a couple of their products that I own, an Ultra
> Sub 12, and UPA-2.
Emotiva has a very good reputation. Let us k
SoftwireEngineer;669081 Wrote:
> I dont use CD players anymore, because a simple cleaning of the CD would
> produce a different sound.
That one ranks up there with the jitter arguement!
I suppose a cd with fried chicken grease would sound different after a
good cleaning :)
My cd's are pristin
Well, Emotiva just dropped their XDA-1 price by $50 today. I just bought
one.
http://emotiva.com/xda1.shtm
$250 shipped
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I recently got a Musical Fidelity M6i to go with my Transporter and
Revel F32 speakers. Loving it.
http://www.musicalfidelity.com/products/M6-Series/M6i/M6i.asp
I also have a mac mini attached for watching movies on my projector.
Downmixing surround to stereo is hit or mis, but it sounds great
Stilly77;669073 Wrote:
> Unfortunately the DAC borrowing isn't an option.
>
> My Pioneer has a higher spec'd Burr-Brown DAC than the Touch and with
> its' implementation produces excellent audio on the analogs, much
> better than the Touch even after the cap mod. Lossless streaming to the
> Touc
Stilly77;669073 Wrote:
> Unfortunately the DAC borrowing isn't an option.
>
> My Pioneer has a higher spec'd Burr-Brown DAC than the Touch and with
> its' implementation produces excellent audio on the analogs, much
> better than the Touch even after the cap mod. Lossless streaming to the
> Touc
guidof;669056 Wrote:
> It's hard to say whether using the Touch's digital out into a good DAC
> would give you the sound you're looking for. What are your preferences
> for "better" sound? What type of music do you listen to? Even knowing
> more about these items, it is you who must be satisfied
Phil Leigh;669049 Wrote:
> You do know that the mono mix is the "correct" one?
Is that according to Yoko Ono?
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evdplancke;669059 Wrote:
> By ethernet jitter, I mean the fact that bits are not sent at a constant
> rate. This kind of jitter is reduced by Qos by avoiding high prio
> packets to be delayed by queues on the LAN (strict prio rule).
>
> This should make the processing power more stable, hence re
Phil Leigh;668760 Wrote:
> This is async TCP/IP - there is no "ethernet jitter"...
By ethernet jitter, I mean the fact that bits are not sent at a
constant rate. This kind of jitter is reduced by Qos by avoiding high
prio packets to be delayed by queues on the LAN (strict prio rule).
This shoul
Stilly77;669041 Wrote:
> Today I did some A/B testing trying to convince myself that the TT mods
> were just a placebo effect. I desired to operate the Touch in its' full
> screen glory with all functions available. Result? After a half dozen
> times back and forth, the TT 3.0 mod will stay insta
magiccarpetride;668990 Wrote:
> I think there is a hidden tt -pl switch which prods Phil Leigh to post a
> scathing attack on any and all who claim that there could ever be any
> audible difference between the unmodded Touch, Touch with TT2.0
> applied, and Touch with TT3.0 applied. Later on, he'
magiccarpetride;669008 Wrote:
> Yes, the mono version sounds very different. Not sure if I'm crazy about
> the sped up "She's Leaving Home", though.
You do know that the mono mix is the "correct" one?
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Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't wha
adamdea;668988 Wrote:
> Is there a tt-h control which turns off hyperbole?
Hilarious...
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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/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1
DAC - Linn 5103 -
darrenyeats;668998 Wrote:
> Unless you've got a... "- yeah we know Darren. Benchmark blah-blah-blah.
> Enough already."
> Darren
So are you saying that via the Benchmark, a Touch and SB3 sound the
same?... Time for a new DAC :-)
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Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets on
Today I did some A/B testing trying to convince myself that the TT mods
were just a placebo effect. I desired to operate the Touch in its' full
screen glory with all functions available. Result? After a half dozen
times back and forth, the TT 3.0 mod will stay installed because there
is a clear di
soundcheck;668895 Wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> For those who can't skip the wireless:
>
> Below you'll find two scenarios to get your wireless situation easily
> under control.
>
>
> 1.
> You build a wireless bridge, which usually also acts as wireless range
>
> extender.
>
> Cheers
Hi Klaus:
adamdea;669014 Wrote:
> I suppose that's the way with night and day differences- they come
> around twice every 24 hours. The thing is from time to time I get these
> sudden moments of feeling that the music comes together and I really
> feel I've just heard it properly . Its what music does!
I
magiccarpetride;668990 Wrote:
>
>
> As a matter of fact, I was wondering myself why is Phil so
> conspicuously quiet in this thread?
He is probably making some measurements ;)
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magiccarpetride;669008 Wrote:
> Yes, the mono version sounds very different. Not sure if I'm crazy about
> the sped up "She's Leaving Home", though.
yeah, in general it is sometimes quite jarring for me to hear a song
off the mono box set that I mostly knew by stereo versions. My original
white
garym;668994 Wrote:
> Yes we do.
>
> Although I secretly wish I had the ability to be as impressed as MCR
> with changes to his system. In his posts over the last year or so, he
> has been entirely blown away by the night & day improvement in his
> audio from so many different things it makes m
garym;668999 Wrote:
> I do like his taste in music. p.s. I've very much enjoyed the mono
> beatles versions, particularly SPLHCB. And I have the stereo remasters
> as well, but the MONO just seems particularly nice. Maybe because I had
> the original albums in mono. who knows
Yes, the mono
adamdea;668991 Wrote:
> but this new liking-the-Beatles thing is scaring me.
I hear you. Turns out that the Beatles are to be blamed for the present
economic fallout in Greece. Go figure.
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magiccarpetri
adamdea;668991 Wrote:
> Perhaps he has taken the same view Tom Lehrer did of the futility of
> satire after Henry Kissinger got the nobel peace prize.
made my day ;-)
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garym
Location 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter,
Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet ex
garym;668994 Wrote:
> Yes we do.
>
> Although I secretly wish I had the ability to be as impressed as MCR
> with changes to his system. In his posts over the last year or so, he
> has been entirely blown away by the night & day improvement in his
> audio from so many different things it makes m
Phil Leigh;668972 Wrote:
> 24/48
> On the other hand, EVERYTHING sounds better on the Touch anyway...
Unless you've got a... "- yeah we know Darren. Benchmark
blah-blah-blah. Enough already."
Darren
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp
magiccarpetride;668990 Wrote:
> We desperately need someone to debunk all this bullshit:)
Yes we do.
Although I secretly wish I had the ability to be as impressed as MCR
with changes to his system. In his posts over the last year or so, he
has been entirely blown away by the night & day improv
I decided to give 3.0 another chance and reinstalled it completely with
all mods including Daemon killer. But now accessing my Touch with
Squeezeplay installed on my laptop, my Touch is unable to connect with
my server (connected via ethernet). Is there something obvious I'm
missing here causing
magiccarpetride;668990 Wrote:
> I think there is a hidden tt -pl switch which prods Phil Leigh to post a
> scathing attack on any and all who claim that there could ever be any
> audible difference between the unmodded Touch, Touch with TT2.0
> applied, and Touch with TT3.0 applied. Later on, he'
adamdea;668988 Wrote:
> Is there a tt-h control which turns off hyperbole?
I think there is a hidden tt -pl switch which prods Phil Leigh to post
a scathing attack on any and all who claim that there could ever be any
audible difference between the unmodded Touch, Touch with TT2.0 applied,
and T
Is there a tt-h control which turns off hyperbole?
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Mr Bellow;668851 Wrote:
> Soundcheck is right : is really a pleasure read what you write. I can
> feel yr passion for music. About yr observations I can say only one
> thing : the secret is to run TT3.0 with all the options enabled (even
> vollock and kill the daemons). In the first days , since
RonM;668876 Wrote:
> Doesn't look like the Dared MP-5 is available any more, not currently on
> the Dared site at all. The Fatman iTube appears to have no DAC.
Several variations of it are still on the market, and you can usually
find good used units on eBay or Audiogon. Some have the DAC and so
Lewis Moon;668958 Wrote:
> Well crap. Looks like I'll be buying a touch after all. Crap crap
> crap. Sometimes I think it would be easier (and much cheaper) to be a
> metal head listening to low grade MP3s on stock ear buds.
>
> Exactly how big/fast can the SB3 go?
24/48
However, you won't b
Mnyb;668954 Wrote:
> No only Touch or transporter does that.
>
> limit is in cpu speed memory etc, thats the bottleneck, not the dac
> chip .
> can be other hardware limits to.
Well crap. Looks like I'll be buying a touch after all. Crap crap
crap. Sometimes I think it would be easier (and m
No only Touch or transporter does that.
limit is in cpu speed memory etc, thats the bottleneck, not the dac
chip .
can be other hardware limits to.
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Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH
I'm getting a Schiit Bifrost in the next couple of weeks and I was
wondering if my venerable old SB3 could deliver 96 kHz/24 bit files to
the new DAC. I understand it can't play those files, but I wounder if
it could act as the "conduit" to something that can.
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Lewis Moon
soundcheck;668895 Wrote:
>
> A HW hint:
> If you hook up a better PS to your hardwired router/bridge/range
> extender you'll notice it. ( no,no -- you don't have to feed your
> router/bridge/hub with Bolder or Teddy Pardo or whatever "audiophile"
> PS ;) )
Can you please tell us which kind of
terjehaa;668927 Wrote:
> If you cannot hook it back up to your network ?
> There you could use Putty or Winscp to turn on the screen via the
> terminalwindow and the tt -x command?
I can't use tt -x until I get it hooked it hooked to the network. It
does not have an IP address yet.
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Cut-Thr
Cut-Throat;668924 Wrote:
> No it was set for Wireless.
>
> So, Factory Reset is my only option?
If you cannot hook it back up to your network ?
There you could use Putty or Winscp to turn on the screen via the
terminalwindow and the tt -x command?
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Mnyb;668881 Wrote:
> If it's set for ethernet it migth work, if it's ethernet with dhcp it
> will work.
No it was set for Wireless.
So, Factory Reset is my only option?
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