Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread aubuti
Quad wrote: > What slightly disqualifiy these results are statements like this: > > -extremely high degree of statistical confidence > barely statistically significant difference- > > Statistical significance is a zero/one decision. Either it is > significant or it is not. You can't tell anythi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Next Frontier

2012-12-13 Thread ralphpnj
I assume that everyone who has posted in this thread has read or at least scanned the Audiostream piece linked to in the first post. What I found most upsetting about the piece is that Mr. Lavorgna, who appears to be one of the few "good guys" writing for Stereophile, does not compare high resolut

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Next Frontier

2012-12-13 Thread JohnSwenson
There actually IS a technical reason why DSD may sound better than PCM, even though it is technically inferior to hi-res PCM: lack of digital filters. I have done extensive study on this and have come to the conclusion that ALL DAC chips which have internal digital filters have not correctly imple

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread garym
Mnyb wrote: > Is there an ABX plugin for SS/SBC/LMS ? > > As usual my soundcard in my PC is not the most fantastic (i can hear the > noise ) I have nice par of ADAM A3x which are quite good for a small > cheap speaker ,but not where i do any kind of critical listening . > I'm nowadays in posses

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread Mnyb
Archimagos test is actually better than the test in the link . Usually it a typical audiophile cop out to blame the song but "we built this city" c'mon :) why not britney spears , Archimago poses songs that does not sounds like artifacts to begin with even if they are not inside everyones taste

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread garym
Quad wrote: > > Statistical significance is a zero/one decision. Either it is > significant or it is not. You can't tell anything more. > Well, I understand your point, but I respectfully disagree. Without digging two deeply into experimental design, in my own field we tend to look at statisti

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread Mnyb
Archimago wrote: > Get foobar2000 and the ABX plugin: > http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx > > Works very well for this kind of thing! > > As for the test itself, I just wanted to present folks with (hopefully) > an easy test with some reasonable material from my collection spann

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread azinck3
Quad wrote: > What slightly disqualifiy these results are statements like this: > > -extremely high degree of statistical confidence > barely statistically significant difference- > > Statistical significance is a zero/one decision. Either it is > significant or it is not. You can't tell anythi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2012-12-13 Thread Quad
azinck3 wrote: > A similar experiment was conducted on a popular programming blog. > > The introduction: > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/the-great-mp3-bitrate-experiment.html > > The results: > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-great-mp3-bitrate-experiment.html

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Next Frontier

2012-12-13 Thread Mnyb
Archimago wrote: > I like this article comparing PCM vs. DSD. > http://www.craigmandigital.com/education/PCM_vs_DSD.aspx > > I think it makes the point very clear in pictures. Certainly fits with > the description of the nature of how DSD sounds. Yup DSD aprox 20bits resolution in low frequncie

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter issue

2012-12-13 Thread golfingrodders
Thanks for the info Garym. I have allocated a fixed IP address to my transporter and it still works so fingers crossed! Rod golfingrodders's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39206 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter issue

2012-12-13 Thread garym
golfingrodders wrote: > JULF > > A good point but I don't think that there were duplicated IP addresses. > Usually my problem from time to time with duplication stems from my IMAC > being duplicated which is a complete PITA. Strange thing today, I moved > my SB3 alongside my Transporter, set up

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter issue

2012-12-13 Thread golfingrodders
JULF A good point but I don't think that there were duplicated IP addresses. Usually my problem from time to time with duplication stems from my IMAC being duplicated which is a complete PITA. Strange thing today, I moved my SB3 alongside my Transporter, set up an ethernet connection from the sam

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter issue

2012-12-13 Thread Julf
golfingrodders wrote: > Thanks I have just tried a factory reset with no joy. What was > interesting however was That I > set up an Ethernet connection and then tried to update the firmware. It > tried to upload very slowly and then gave up so it looks as though it is > not buffering correctly t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Next Frontier

2012-12-13 Thread cliveb
I know nothing about how it works, but wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if it turns out that the Mytek internally converts DSD to PCM :-) As far as I can tell, the Mytek uses the Sabre 32 bit DAC chip. Anyone know if this is a PCM device? ---