Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread Golden Earring
Morning Arny! It was this paper https://phys.org/news/2013-02-human-fourier-uncertainty-principle.html that I was seeking your view on actually... Dave :) Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread Golden Earring
ftlight wrote: > I still have this exact setup, and very occasionally play vinyl on it. > > Bill Hi Bill! It sure is a pretty deck (if you can find room for it, lol): you do have to change the damping fluid periodically since it tends to get clogged up with detritus. I'm afraid I stand my ear

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread ftlight
Golden Earring wrote: > I had previously owned a Transcriptors (later Mitchell Engineering) > Hydraulic Reference deck with an SME 3009 arm & a Shure V15 MkIII > cartridge (I'm sure you remember the '70s too) I still have this exact setup, and very occasionally play vinyl on it. Bill

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread Golden Earring
StephenPG wrote: > Interesting you chose Mahler 2. > > So you're saying having to split the symphony onto four sides of two > lp's, including splitting the final movement into two parts (something > I'm sure Mahler himself would have disapproved of) is a technological > triumph? > > Should I me

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread StephenPG
Golden Earring wrote: > I do think that extracting anything approaching a convincing rendition > of (say) Mahler's 2nd symphony from a spiral groove on a thin vinyl disc > is more of a technological triumph than performing the same trick from > zillions of individual "0"s & "1"s, although both ar

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread Golden Earring
Lots of very useful information & insightful comments in your last post. I haven't got anything concrete to add, so I've saved myself the trouble of pulling our multiple quotes & mumbling! :D I do think that extracting anything approaching a convincing rendition of (say) Mahler's 2nd symphony fr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread arnyk
Golden Earring wrote: > Morning Arny! > > I wondered if you had any direct comments on the research paper that I > referenced (which may or may not prove to be good science depending on > whether the claimed results are confirmed independently). The test > results were intriguing if valid. > O

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread Golden Earring
Wombat wrote: > Whatsbestforum fits your agenda pretty well. Are you sure you are not a > long term member over there and forgot about it because of all these > pills? > > Edit: When we are at it. Mysterious flashes are neither jitter nor > aliens. It is ice crystals! > https://wattsupwiththat.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread Golden Earring
arnyk wrote: > I can't recall what you reported, but I can tell you that in general the > clocks of audio products are very accurate and very stable and fall > miles within the relatively poor human ability to perceive long-term or > short term changes in pitch. That's what changes in clock frequ

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-22 Thread arnyk
Golden Earring wrote: > Hi Julf! > > I've finally caught up with you - this is a very interesting concept. > > The discussion at section 5.4 in the AES paper (& the accompanying Fig. > 7) got me thinking that clock drift not captured by a jitter measurement > *-might-* be a rational explanation