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

2011-11-11 Thread soundcheck
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.

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

2011-11-11 Thread soundcheck
My new server HW -- Zotac Zbox ID41 ION2 -- arrived. My TT server Linux is prepared and working. I spent a couple of hours on it last night. Unbelievable: This new ION2 platform performs worse than my old ION1. I can't get HD 1080p material to play anymore. I'll send it back. I need to

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

2011-11-11 Thread evdplancke
soundcheck;669149 Wrote: Good that you bring that up. Thanks for endorsing my reflexion. I thought I was from another planet here. Sent from my GT-S5830 using Tapatalk -- evdplancke evdplancke's Profile:

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

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
soundcheck;669149 Wrote: ...All these different types of jitter are non linear variations and might cause this are that nasty sideeffect. And this is what Phil will never understand. Even though it's evident that there is an issue, nobody really has nailed it down yet: One reason IMO

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

2011-11-11 Thread Howard Turkster
Is there a reason I can't connect to my Touch via Squeezeplay after running TT 3.0? Never had this problem with 2.0. -- Howard Turkster *Soft mods*: SC TT 2.0 + Dynaudio's mods *Components*: Squeezebox Touch (analogue outs) - Rega Mira 3 - Boston Acoustics VR2s - Rel T2 sub, D-Link hub

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

2011-11-11 Thread RadioClash
Did you guys really have to wake up that sleeping monster, Phil Leigh? It was so peaceful. -- RadioClash RadioClash's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2839 View this thread:

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

2011-11-11 Thread soundcheck
Phil Leigh;669170 Wrote: Instead of issuing personal attacks against me, perhaps you'd like to explain HOW network packet jitter can possibly impact audio quality? If I'd try to find out and explain the root cause behind all the araes of improvement, TT3.0 would have been launched in 2015

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

2011-11-11 Thread soundcheck
Phil Leigh;669170 Wrote: Instead of issuing personal attacks against me, perhaps you'd like to explain HOW network packet jitter can possibly impact audio quality? If I'd try to find out and explain the root cause behind all the areas of improvement, TT3.0 would have been launched in 2015

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

2011-11-11 Thread praganj
Phil Leigh;669170 Wrote: Instead of issuing personal attacks against me, perhaps you'd like to explain HOW network packet jitter can possibly impact audio quality? I'm sure the entire industry would like to know. Just completely disconnect the network from the SB (pull the ethernet plug

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

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
praganj;669226 Wrote: I don't know how it is possible, but the quality of the network affects the sound quality. This is my experience. I tried two different routers and four different switches dedicated to SBS-SBT connection and they all affects the sound. Maybe when TCPIP packets arriving

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

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
soundcheck;669227 Wrote: ...Your comments ...Oh dear... packet jitter is only relevant to network protocols... do sound kind of arrogant to me. You suggest you'd understand the whole subject. I'm saying you don't. If you just look at one aspect I call it pigeonhole thinking. What's

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

2011-11-11 Thread socistep
oh no, the thread has gone into very low level discussion on things the majority of users know nothing about :-) I think I'll go and put some music on, or maybe try and come up with a spotify playlist of songs with the name Jitter in the title -- socistep

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

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
RadioClash;669216 Wrote: Did you guys really have to wake up that sleeping giant Phil Leigh? It was so peaceful. Is sleeping giant a term of endearment? :-) Sorry to spoil everyone's love-in... However, last time I looked this was a FORUM and therefore we are allowed to have differing views

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

2011-11-11 Thread Howard Turkster
Why don't we create a whole separate thread for Phil in which to attack this thread instead of cluttering up this one? -- Howard Turkster *Soft mods*: SC TT 2.0 + Dynaudio's mods *Components*: Squeezebox Touch (analogue outs) - Rega Mira 3 - Boston Acoustics VR2s - Rel T2 sub, D-Link hub

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

2011-11-11 Thread garym
Phil is not attacking anyone. Why are some people threatened by engineering and facts? This is not a religious forum, although audiophilia is sometimes similar to a religion I suppose. -- garym Location 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) SbS 7.6.2 Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery

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

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
Howard Turkster;669253 Wrote: Why don't we create a whole separate thread for Phil in which to attack this thread instead of cluttering up this one? I'm not attacking this thread. I haven't said a word about about the mods. I was merely commenting on the relevance or otherwise of the terms

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

2011-11-11 Thread socistep
debate is good, I guess in this sense its a very detailed and technical discussion - however someone like Phil is obviously a very knowledgable person on the subject -- socistep socistep's Profile:

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

2011-11-11 Thread Howard Turkster
Phil Leigh;669257 Wrote: I'm not attacking this thread. I haven't said a word about about the mods. I was merely commenting on the relevance or otherwise of the terms ethernet jitter and packet jitter. This post reveals far about you than you probably intended. Your posts reveal you're

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

2011-11-11 Thread socistep
Howard Turkster;669261 Wrote: Your posts reveal you're attention-starved, whether or not you understand that. I very much doubt thatI wouldn't read too much into what people post, its a forum on the internet - you can really understand what people are fully like from it -- socistep

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

2011-11-11 Thread Jeff Flowerday
Howard Turkster;669261 Wrote: Your posts reveal you're attention-starved, whether or not you understand that. Attention starved? He brings up valid points about networking, unfortunately some people seem to take it personal. I say keep up the debate in this thread it's healthy. -- Jeff

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

2011-11-11 Thread sckramer
Phil Leigh;669170 Wrote: Instead of issuing personal attacks against me, perhaps you'd like to explain HOW network packet jitter can possibly impact audio quality? I'm sure the entire industry would like to know. Just completely disconnect the network from the SB (pull the ethernet plug

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

2011-11-11 Thread tank121
I'm sure these mods do make a difference in standalone mode. Surely if each mod is taking some strain off the touch then it will be more apparent in standalone mode ? Can someone else test this to make sure it's not just my ears playing tricks on me! -- tank121 Squeezebox touch Arcam A85 amp

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

2011-11-11 Thread tank121
Sometimes there can an issue when the screen is disabled and you can't check the server has started and not stopped. Is there a way of doing this via winscp or squeezecommander etc ? -- tank121 Squeezebox touch Arcam A85 amp Chord rumour speaker cable Dali Mentor Menuets on Custom Design

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

2011-11-11 Thread soundcheck
Folks. If everything would be that easy... I'm well aware that there are massive EMI/RFI and noise respectively serious grounding issues in private households. I'm a telecommunications engineer btw. You can read about that on my blog for more than a year btw. The first measure was to use

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

2011-11-11 Thread SoftwireEngineer
I do TCP/IP/socket programming at work (with CS/EE major). Network throughput can cause buffering logic to churn and put different loads on the CPU. This might have either powersupply or network chip related interference in the SB. When it comes to sound, some people have keen hearing and the

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

2011-11-11 Thread SoftwireEngineer
Stilly77;669104 Wrote: 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 pristine..usually in and out of the machine. I used to spin vinyl and don't miss that debacle. Since

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

2011-11-11 Thread cunobelinus
On 11 Nov 2011, at 14:30, RadioClash wrote: Did you guys really have to wake up that sleeping monster, Phil Leigh? It was so peaceful. Yes, but so much less fun. ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2011-11-11 Thread Stilly77
SoftwireEngineer;669363 Wrote: Since I am a vegetarian I have tried other kinds of grease (optrix, auric illuminator, mikrosmooth )and IME they do sound different :-) I know it is controversial .. feel free to have a laugh :) it's no more ridiculous than many of the other claims made here,

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

2011-11-11 Thread guidof
Stilly77;669108 Wrote: I will and thanks for the feedback Guidobesides the Touch, I have two SB'3 and various laptop's / PC's so having a external DAC (my first one) will be interesting. What's your feeling on optical cables? Plastic, glass ??? For years I assumed that coax was the

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

2011-11-11 Thread sckramer
Klaus, I remember back when I crimped ethernet cables by hand, I would just peel the sheilding back not terminate it-- in prebuilt cables, are the sheilds tied to one of the pins? or how does that work? -- sckramer CiAudio vdc-Sb - Touch (TT 2.0 mods) PSaudio DL3 DAC (Cullen 4 mods) -

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

2011-11-11 Thread adamdea
Stilly77;669386 I also support debate. However I am not really sure what debate there really is to have. It seems that the basic fact is understood that there is no such thing as tc/ip jitter in the sense that there is spdif jitter and that any effect would have to work via loading the touch

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

2011-11-11 Thread Cut-Throat
jeff flowerday;669269 Wrote: attention starved? He brings up valid points about networking, unfortunately it's taken personal when it shouldn't. I say keep up the debate in this thread it's healthy. +2 -- Cut-Throat

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

2011-11-11 Thread RadioClash
Phil Leigh;669252 Wrote: Is sleeping giant a term of endearment? :-) Sorry to spoil everyone's love-in... However, last time I looked this was a FORUM and therefore we are allowed to have differing views and opinions. No worries Phil. I like you more than I hate you. :) -- RadioClash

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

2011-11-11 Thread lake_eleven
cut-throat;669424 Wrote: attention starved? He brings up valid points about networking, unfortunately it's taken personal when it shouldn't. I say keep up the debate in this thread it's healthy.+2 +3 -- lake_eleven

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

2011-11-11 Thread Stilly77
guidof;669401 Wrote: For years I assumed that coax was the way to go. Then I read Phil Leigh's post in which he questioned that conventional wisdom. So I thought I would give Toslink a chance. I first tried an Amazon Basic optical cable(about $8). I didn't expect much, but I was astonished

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

2011-11-11 Thread Stilly77
adamdea;669408 Wrote: None of this takes away from klaus' pioneering work for which I am very grateful. me tooKlaus hasn't ever put a gun to anyone's head demanding to use his mod's or else The process is so easy and reversible, everyone can make a choice rather easily as to what