Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Transporter SE

2014-11-06 Thread ymw
I am interested in the Transporter if you still have it. Somehow, I cannot PM, maybe because I am new? ym ymw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63531 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread ralphpnj
Julf wrote: > I agree - and of course 32 bit floating point must be better than 24 bit > integer, as more is better... Only if it is DSD. 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-

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread Julf
ralphpnj wrote: > As I just responded to probedb, yes it was meant as a joke but it is > really hard to make a joke about something that it is itself one big > joke. While you and many other of my fellow forum members might > instantly recognize the joke, unfortunately most audiophiles would not

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread ralphpnj
Julf wrote: > I am assuming the whole posting was 100% joke/irony. As I just responded to probedb, yes it was meant as a joke but it is really hard to make a joke about something that it is itself one big joke. While you and many other of my fellow forum members might instantly recognize the jok

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread ralphpnj
probedb wrote: > Except you know that a dB scale isn't linear so 96 isn't double 48 > afaik. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel > > I do hope the part about 16/24/32 was a joke. Sure it was a joke but similar nonsense has been printed in the high end audio press and no matter how many times i

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread Julf
probedb wrote: > I do hope the part about 16/24/32 was a joke. I am assuming the whole posting was 100% joke/irony. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread probedb
ralphpnj wrote: > Amazingly no one has yet mentioned that in order for a recording with a > highly compressed dynamic range to sound good one MUST obtain a 24 bit > version (or even a 32 bit version) since those extra 8 bits provide for > approximately 50% more dynamic range (16 bit audio - 96 dB

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread ralphpnj
cliveb wrote: > I agree that appropriate compression is often necessary and has been > used for decades on rock and pop as a way of bringing recordings to > life. (Jazz as well, I dare say). But what started in the early 1990's > and has been getting worse ever since is *excessive* compression.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread cliveb
darrenyeats wrote: > I used to rail against all compression but sometimes it's fitting, if > done well, in certain genres. It's not welcome necessarily, but it > doesn't spell ruin. Especially if certain elements in the mix are > compressed and others not. If Busta Rhymes bass kicks and Two Door

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-06 Thread darrenyeats
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter V 2.2 versus V 2.5

2014-11-06 Thread aston45
Hi guys, in the meantime I´ve bought another Transporter, this time in black und with TRANSPORTER on the front plate. I´m selling the silver one since my other equipment is in black. Guess what I saw, when opening the case of the black one? *V 2.3* I then compared both versions in regard to the P

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Screws for the Transporter

2014-11-06 Thread aston45
They are the screws which pop up directly when the link opens up and it is the size UNC 4-40. In German they are called Senkkopf-Schrauben mit Innensechskant, ähnlich DIN 7991, Edelstahl A2 which means Allen-Key, similar to DIN 7991 (industrial standard size), stainless steel. Cheers Kai -