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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
Soundcheck, I am covered as my Benchmark dac1 has one on input. one more comment on priorities I am getting a fantastic sound with the 2 pdflush processes set to fifo 98. before I just had 155 set to 98 which sounded great, but was unbalanced, setting 154 to 98 brought the balance back. --

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

2011-12-20 Thread soundcheck
SBGK;678121 Wrote: I am covered as my Benchmark dac1 has one on input. Covered!?!? That you'll know once you've tried several transformers. ;) -- soundcheck ::: ' Touch Toolbox 3.0 and more' (http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com) ::: by soundcheck

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

2011-12-20 Thread brgds
soundcheck;678117 Wrote: One more SPDIF hint. First of all, just to mention it (again?) , a pulsetransformer for isolation purposes is a must!!! You should have just one transformer on the link though. Having two on the link degrades the sound. Make sure you got a transfomer in place on

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

2011-12-20 Thread Gazjam
SBGK;678121 Wrote: Soundcheck, I am covered as my Benchmark dac1 has one on input. one more comment on priorities I am getting a fantastic sound with the 2 pdflush processes set to fifo 98. before I just had 155 set to 98 which sounded great, but was unbalanced, setting 154 to 98

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
Gazjam;678136 Wrote: *confused* ? Wanted to try this but Pdflush isn't in the TT file? try chrt -f -p 98 154 chrt -f -p 98 155 from the console first, see if it makes a difference -- SBGK SBGK's Profile:

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
soundcheck;678126 Wrote: Covered!?!? That you'll know once you've tried several transformers. ;) covered as in the dac-1 has 1 on the input, it can be upgraded, but not ready for that yet. don't plan any changes downstream of SBT as happy with that side of things, not state of the art,

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

2011-12-20 Thread Jacky
How already mentioned, it give you completely beautifully many possibilities of parameter and priorities one could change; only these are, really, completely subtly and cause by every other tonal observations. Anyway TT 3.0 is an improvement to the standard program: there one sees the potential

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

2011-12-20 Thread praganj
soundcheck;678117 Wrote: The challenge was to find the right one. ;) So, which one is the right one ? ;) I have Buffalo II connected with coax to SBT. -- praganj praganj's Profile:

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

2011-12-20 Thread RotelMan
+1 to: chrt -f -p 98 154 chrt -f -p 98 155 It gives alot more air (3d) to the sound but I don't like the balance so now I'm trying SBGK total setup from page 48... I will maybe write more ;-) -- RotelMan RotelMan's

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
Jacky;678150 Wrote: How already mentioned, it give you completely beautifully many possibilities of parameter and priorities one could change; only these are, really, completely subtly and cause by every other tonal observations. Anyway TT 3.0 is an improvement to the standard program:

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

2011-12-20 Thread Gazjam
SBGK;678147 Wrote: try chrt -f -p 98 154 chrt -f -p 98 155 from the console first, see if it makes a difference haven't tried it with vanilla TT3.0, but it is included in the settings on page 48, it is delivering the most detail I have heard out of SBT without being too bright,

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

2011-12-20 Thread guidof
SBGK;678223 Wrote: If you have a high quality system then the priority mods do make a big difference and these are free (well you should donate to Soundcheck). It is just a game for me to see how far it can be taken and so far it has rewarded me with performance beyond my expectations.

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
Gazjam;678232 Wrote: Ah...I had already used your settings on P48 and have to agree, best my touch has sounded. Thought this was something different. :) thanks. This will do me till TT4 is released. Hi I only added those setting to p48 today, so you may not have them check with ps

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

2011-12-20 Thread lake_eleven
SBGK;678234 Wrote: Hi I only added those setting to p48 today, so you may not have them SBGK - Can you pls share what goes in the TT file now with your changes to p48. Thanks. -- lake_eleven lake_eleven's

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
lake_eleven;678238 Wrote: SBGK - Can you pls share what goes in the TT file now with your changes to p48. Thanks. the last 3 lines in the priority section should be chrt -o -p $PRIOIRQ45 $PIDIRQ45 /dev/null 21 chrt -f -p 98 154 /dev/null 21 chrt -f -p 98 155 /dev/null 21 } try these first

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

2011-12-20 Thread Gazjam
SBGK;678234 Wrote: Hi I only added those setting to p48 today, so you may not have them check with ps -eo pid,tid,class,pri,rtprio,cmd /usr/bin$ ps -eo pid,tid,class,pri,rtprio,cmd Unknown HZ value! (79) Assume 100. PID TID CLS PRI RTPRIO CMD *edit* 1080 1080 TS 19

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
Hi, for those trying out the priority mods with the changes from yesterday chrt -f -p 98 154 /dev/null 21 chrt -f -p 98 155 /dev/null 21 I have been trying these with priority 99, seems to have a positive effect. more presence. chrt -f -p 99 154 chrt -f -p 99 155 -- SBGK

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

2011-12-20 Thread rgro
O.Kso I got too curious and gave SBGK's tweaks a shot last night and listened for several hours. My initial impression was that the music was very smth but, in fact, had an overall muffled quality to it. So before I went back to the orginial TT 3.0 prio settings I added those last

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

2011-12-20 Thread SBGK
rgro;678299 Wrote: O.Kso I got too curious and gave SBGK's tweaks a shot last night and listened for several hours. My initial impression was that the music was very smth but, in fact, had an overall muffled quality to it. So before I went back to the orginial TT 3.0 prio