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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
xtrips;669713 Wrote: Anyone who care to answer here? Thanks Are you using a DAC connected by spdif? What type of machine is your server? Set player.source to DEBUG in settings advanced logging and look in server.log to see what command is actually being used... -- Phil Leigh You want to

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

2011-11-13 Thread Soundman
xtrips;669713 Wrote: Anyone who care to answer here? Thanks I had problems too with 24/96 files, though im my case it was not distortion but rebuffering when playin them with PCM instead of native. The troubles disappeared after I installed the latest media server software (7.7.1 - r33690). I

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

2011-11-13 Thread xtrips
Soundman;669732 Wrote: I had problems too with 24/96 files, though im my case it was not distortion but rebuffering when playin them with PCM instead of native. The troubles disappeared after I installed the latest media server software (7.7.1 - r33690). I now run 7.7.1 - r33696 without

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

2011-11-13 Thread firedog
xtrips;669713 Wrote: Anyone who care to answer here? Thanks Sorry for asking the obvious, but are you also streaming to another SB device like a radio or a Boom? If so, server side decoding can cause problems - the server doesn't know what device to decode for, as it were, and may not send a

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

2011-11-13 Thread firedog
RadioClash;669686 Wrote: Phil's guard dogs are out in full force. :) I don't get the attacks on Phil. He's one of the more helpful people on the forum. He hasn't dissed the mods. In the past he has pointed out that a Few of Klaus' ideas/assumptions/explanations don't stand up to a critical

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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
xtrips;669735 Wrote: I never said that TT3 was responsible. I don't know actually. The Touch is connected via LAN 1Gb to a switch 1Gb then to a Readynas Pro at 1Gb. The Touch runs the latest 7.70 and TT3 with screen enabled. The server runs the latest 7.7.1 beta build and is installed on

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

2011-11-13 Thread soundcheck
Folks. I'm really tired of that kind of talk. It's always the same over here. At this place in particular. If people get bored they start hijacking those threads. These people exactly know how to pull the trigger - pushing a thread into an unwanted direction. These people just don't

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

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Phil Leigh;669778 Wrote: Can't imagine TTx has anything to do with this. Do you still get the problem using the internal Touch DAC? (if so, it is an SBS configuration problem, if not it is an issue with your DAC). Just to be clear, your 24/96 flacs play fine normally if you stream them

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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
Mnyb;669786 Wrote: See xstrips other treads he has SoX problems on a Synology NAS . (a x86 one so it should work it has all cpu horsepowers needed but not with the install provided by synology) Hmmm but SOX is not used when streaming 24/96 to Touch... FLAC.exe is invoked to convert to PCM

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

2011-11-13 Thread xtrips
firedog;669761 Wrote: Sorry for asking the obvious, but are you also streaming to another SB device like a radio or a Boom? If so, server side decoding can cause problems - the server doesn't know what device to decode for, as it were, and may not send a stream to the Touch. Althogh what you

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

2011-11-13 Thread xtrips
Phil Leigh;669778 Wrote: Can't imagine TTx has anything to do with this. Do you still get the problem using the internal Touch DAC? (if so, it is an SBS configuration problem, if not it is an issue with your DAC). Just to be clear, your 24/96 flacs play fine normally if you stream them

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

2011-11-13 Thread xtrips
Mnyb;669786 Wrote: See xstrips other treads he has SoX problems on a Synology NAS . (a x86 one so it should work it has all cpu horsepowers needed but not with the install provided by synology) Synology NAS? Not me. -- xtrips

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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
xtrips;669791 Wrote: Checked all! It only happens when the SBS streams as PCM. Plays fine when streaming as FLAC, always. Is it OK with the internal DAC and PCM? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...

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

2011-11-13 Thread guidof
soundcheck;669783 Wrote: Folks. I'm really tired of that kind of talk. + 1 Guido F. -- guidof MUSIC ROOM: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge - Conrad Johnson Motif preamp Oppo BDP--83 Universal Player; Squeezebox Touch (digital

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

2011-11-13 Thread guidof
xtrips;669713 Wrote: Anyone who care to answer here? Thanks I can't provide any help that would possibly solve your problem. However, I have been running TT3.0 and SBS 7.6.1 with setting of PCM instead of native, with and without disabling WLAN, with both digital out only and RCA out only

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

2011-11-13 Thread praganj
xtrips;669791 Wrote: Checked all! It only happens when the SBS streams as PCM. Plays fine when streaming as FLAC, always. IMHO they are two pssibilities: 1. Your SBS is underpowered and is not able to decompress flac with sox on the fly and it breakes the data stream 2. There is something

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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
To be clear, when streaming FLAC up to/including 96Khz as PCM on the Touch, this line is used by LMS in convert.conf: flc pcm * * # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{END=--until=%v} [flac] -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed $START$ $END$ -- $FILE$ SOX is NOT used.

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

2011-11-13 Thread xtrips
praganj;669852 Wrote: IMHO they are two possibilities: 1. Your SBS is underpowered and is not able to decompress flac with sox on the fly and it breakes the data stream 2. There is something with your network. If you can borrow or buy a small cheap 100MBits switch (Cisco, Netgear,

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

2011-11-13 Thread praganj
xtrips;669865 Wrote: I think it might be your #1 possibility. The readynas runs on an old Core2duo 2.4Ghz with 2Gb RAM, so maybe it is not enough to decompress the large 24/96 Flac files. I guess the other success stories I read run their SBS on a more powerful NAS or even a PC/MAC. @phil

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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
I thought you said the files were playing back at the wrong speed? That would not be a NAS CPU problem. -- 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

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

2011-11-13 Thread Jeff Flowerday
Yah, Core 2 Duo should have more than enough power. -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Rega DAC - Has anyone auditioned one yet?

2011-11-13 Thread HumanMedia
BNC input mod: http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/showthread.php/30510-Rega-DAC-Logical-step-up-from-Cambridge-Audio-DacMagic?p=613444viewfull=1#post613444 -- HumanMedia HumanMedia's Profile:

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

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
I'm doing fine with an via-epia c7 1,2gHz single core it can do the 24/96 24/48 to my boom . I got myself 2*Touch so if I'm in my livingroom or kitchen no transcoding is needed (except fort my only 24/192 album) -- Mnyb

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

2011-11-13 Thread kiat
praganj;669852 Wrote: IMHO they are two possibilities: 1. Your SBS is underpowered and is not able to decompress flac with sox on the fly and it breakes the data stream 2. There is something with your network. If you can borrow or buy a small cheap 100MBits switch (Cisco, Netgear,

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

2011-11-13 Thread Phil Leigh
kiat;669931 Wrote: I'm using ReadyNas DUO. Decompressing 16/44.1 source is not a problem. But once I move to 24/96 material it playing via touch will have alot of skips and pause. That's a CPU or network problem for sure. Skips and jumps. Playback at the wrong speed is something else. --