[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Do Bit-perfect Digital S/PDIF Transports Sound The Same?

2013-06-28 Thread Archimago
The round up of Squeezeboxes used as SPDIF transports including the Receiver, Touch, SB3, Transporter :-). Some measurable characteristics of SPDIF - jitter, data rate/timing differences between devices. http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/06/measurements-do-bit-perfect-digital.html Thanks again

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread garym
Do you personally prefer the slow roll off? Just curious. Thanks for the update. *Location 1:* VortexBox Appliance 6TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all eth

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread jfo
ralphpnj wrote: > Every time I said that my mother would hit me. It's time you moved out and got your own place. :) jfo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1135 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread garym
Thanks. Ill have to play with it a bit. *Location 1:* VortexBox Appliance 6TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LM

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A comment on USB cables...

2013-06-28 Thread Archimago
andy_c wrote: > Archimago, this was a very well-written and well-reasoned article. > Thanks for posting it. > > However, if one were to write a letter to the editor about it, the > letter might be based on an assumption that the authors of the HFN & RR > article are behaving in an ethical fashi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread Archimago
ralphpnj wrote: > Nicely done, as always! Thanks once again for your excellent and > unbiased (as in no advertisers to keep happy) work. Thanks Ralph. Folks, I've been updating the data on some of the other models as part of the upcoming look at different transport devices for comparison. Chec

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread Archimago
garym wrote: > Do you personally prefer the slow roll off? Just curious. > > Thanks for the update. Depends. In general 90%+ I will listen with the "sharp" setting even with my relatively bright Paradigm Signature S8's. However, on occasion I will switch over to the slow roll-off when listeni

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread ralphpnj
Archimago wrote: > A big thank you to fordgtlover! > > Here's the data on your Duet... > > http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/06/measurements-squeezebox-duet-receiver.html Nicely done, as always! Thanks once again for your excellent and unbiased (as in no advertisers to keep happy) work. Liv

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread ralphpnj
garym wrote: > Thanks. Ill have to play with it a bit. Every time I said that my mother would hit me. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-En

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Squeezebox Duet.

2013-06-28 Thread ralphpnj
jfo wrote: > It's time you moved out and got your own place. :) I did that long ago and it's my wife who says it! Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-A

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A comment on USB cables...

2013-06-28 Thread ralphpnj
Archimago wrote: > > This is why I figured I might as well post this up on the blog. No point > sending anything as a Letter To The Editor IMO... I know different > magazines are different but the lack of a torrent of angry letters > printed when TAS released their series of insane articles on c