Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread Candlemass
pippin wrote: 1. Try to have as few devices in your audio chain as possible. Tell it the audio engineers in the studio :p pippin wrote: 2. All fudging with the sound should be done by the speakers and I chose the ones that sound best to me. All other components are necessary burden and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] LAN Isolator

2014-09-03 Thread Candlemass
Mnyb wrote: *cough* is it not so the ethernet is already isolated current loops :) so just dont use shielded cat cable Exactly :cool: Candlemass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63202 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread pippin
Candlemass wrote: Tell it the audio engineers in the studio :p They are creating the information. That's something else than not distorting it. After the audio engineer has worked on it the music often sounds nothing like the raw material he got at all. Why does it matter if you have a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread Candlemass
Of course it is a total different story if you are using DSPs and digital filtering to to get the best response from your speaker (or the speaker in a specific room), but that is the total opposite to the try to have as few devices in your audio chain as possible pragma. Or, at least, I did

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread pippin
You did understand me completely wrong. But you are aware how speakers with multiple drivers actually work, right? I'm talking Class D amps and digital (matching and crossover) filters vs. analog amps and analog filters (crossover only). No DSP stuff. For each speaker you need a separate

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter V 2.2 versus V 2.5

2014-09-03 Thread aston45
Hello, I just bought a Transporter and while I was looking for some links on how to tweak it, I realized that there must be two different versions of the Transporter. On some pics one can see a Version 2.2 and on others there is a V 2.5. Does anybody know about any differences between the two

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread Candlemass
And these digital filters are done in a DSP: * Signal - DSP - one DAC/amp per driver - drivers Candlemass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63202 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread pippin
Sure, but if you don't use it as an additional device but to replace analog filters, losses are much lower. Ideally (my DAC in the speaker) you can do all the processing even before the DAC. One DAC per channel will eventually get cheap enough, too. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread pippin
Sure. That would be the ideal setup with the lowest losses (you need one DSP per driver or a DSP powerful enough to process several channels simultaneously). --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Replacement for Ultimate Ears Super-Fi 5 Extra Bass in-ear phones ?

2014-09-03 Thread RonM
swayzak wrote: Forget it. I found them. In the event you misplace them again, I find the Klipsch line of high-end buds to be very good. I bought mine some years ago (I believe they were 3 series, but I can't find the information on them) and they were much more expensive than the current 4

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread daverich4
pippin wrote: Yes, but I'm not an audiophile, I just want to listen to good music. I hope I'm going to be happy with my Transporter for many years to come but should it ever die, I'll need something with balanced outputs again and hey, you know, it should be as good as the Transporter, too.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-09-03 Thread ralphpnj
daverich4 wrote: I wonder if something like this would work? I currently use my Transporter to drive my Woo Audio WA22 headphone amp which requires that you use it's balanced inputs to get the full output of the amp. It seems like plugging this into any DAC with balanced outputs might do the