Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Digital-In with DEQ2496 in loop

2012-04-12 Thread MediaCenter
Any help is appreciated MediaCenter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32623 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94592 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread mikael_b
TheOctavist wrote: I have done this often to bands I record(or to myself). I do a take, and hit a switch on , say an eq only to hear damn that was good ...but I hadn't engaged anything at all, but put it from OFF into bypass mode. . I do this with bands too. ill say im going to change

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

2012-04-12 Thread bluegaspode
We are going round in cycles, aren't we? - You always claim you (and mcr) - yet again - made the sound 100 times better. - Yet again you are using tweaks which actually are very unlikely to change anything at all (like applet loading priority, or triodes Applet influencing SPDIF) . - yet

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread bluegaspode
TheOctavist wrote: I do this with bands too. ill say im going to change this compressor a bit and without doing anything, I replay the take, they go damn brah, that sounds much better Guess I've not been alone when doing recordings in the past. It's so much easier to talk to bands this way

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Digital-In with DEQ2496 in loop

2012-04-12 Thread Soulkeeper
I can't see any reason why it would -not- work. I have myself been considering a DEQ2496 for use with my Touch, but then I'd have to use the DAC in the DEQ2496, and I have no idea how good that one is. Soulkeeper's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Digital-In with DEQ2496 in loop

2012-04-12 Thread callesoroe
MediaCenter wrote: I am running Airplay using Airport Express into Transporter's digital-in. I wanted to do room correction on Airplay. Currently, room correction is applied using Inguz. I am thinking of buying DEQ2496 or something similar to insert it in the digital loop. Will this work? I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread aubuti
TheOctavist wrote: I have done this often to bands I record(or to myself). I do a take, and hit a switch on , say an eq only to hear damn that was good ...but I hadn't engaged anything at all, but put it from OFF into bypass mode. . I do this with bands too. ill say im going to change

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread Soulkeeper
aubuti wrote: But I really was looking for some of the purported well documented cases where sufficiently large population of double blind testers were reporting significant differences, which I also interpreted (perhaps foolishly) the 'significant differences' to be the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Digital-In with DEQ2496 in loop

2012-04-12 Thread cliveb
MediaCenter wrote: I am running Airplay using Airport Express into Transporter's digital-in. I wanted to do room correction on Airplay. Currently, room correction is applied using Inguz. I am thinking of buying DEQ2496 or something similar to insert it in the digital loop. Will this work? So

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread magiccarpetride
mlsstl wrote: Classic subjective response featuring the selective use of psychological issues in audio testing. Our poor, frightened test subjects are cowed into helpless uselessness when they find themselves in a situation where their 100 times better, even my wife could hear it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread magiccarpetride
RonM wrote: This is really just prime BS. Anyone with anything resembling an education in science or a capacity for critical thinking can see it for what it is. It's entirely supposition without so much as a single remote kernel of truth at its core. In this context, blind testing is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Free Home Demo

2012-04-12 Thread Stratmangler
It would be good to come over again sometime and see/hear the fruits of your labours re: the garage conversion,and also to hear the Touch with the Mdac The only problem with me at the moment is time - I'm rushed off my feet with work, not that I'm complaining ;) Chris :)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What outboard DAC do you use with Squeezebox?

2012-04-12 Thread congole
SB Touch - silver coax - VTL Straight-Line (two-channel, tubed D/A converter, UltraAnalog DAC D20400 module). congole's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40776 View this thread:

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

2012-04-12 Thread TheOctavist
SBGK wrote: so the greatest advancement in sound quality for the Touch, that I have heard, doesn't raise any intellectual curiosity amongst the denizens of the premier Squeezebox community forum ? . no, because it is rubbish. if you used room correction or treatment and made those

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread TheOctavist
mikael_b wrote: This is the opposite of a double blind test, it's an schoolbook example of expectation bias, one factor you remove with a properly designed double blind test, and clearly demonstrates why it is necessary with a double blind test. If I know you are now playing the better

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Blind listening - TT3.0, HWmods and Teddy Pardo PSU

2012-04-12 Thread TheOctavist
aubuti wrote: Thanks, and I personally don't find that surprising. But I really was looking for some of the purported well documented cases where sufficiently large population of double blind testers were reporting significant differences, which I also interpreted (perhaps foolishly) the