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of the
members of this forum.
Nevertheless I do hear improvement with the Elpac, whether it's worth
the money it's not up to me to tell people.
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wife is the prettiest in the world? :)
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or into a Transporter.
IMO the digital mods are not money well spent.
I thought I heard a slight improvement with the analogue out but it
still didn't compare to the Lavry or the TP.
IMO save your money for a good DAC and get a stock surplus power
supply.
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that cannot tell a difference between a
$40 Sony DVD player against a $3000 Cary 303/300.
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between the SB and the TP.
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or vice
versa. It all depends on what you're looking for, and how well it match
with the rest of your gears.
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or vice
versa. It all depends on what you're looking for, and how well it match
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of the stock TP.
I'll leave the rest to your imagination. :)
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jan,
you should amend American to Republican fashion.
We Democrats blame ourselves for everything :-)
What's your proof that Democrats blame themselves for everything?
Have you not read the news everyday? Democrats only blame others for
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the members here that you guys have to put up with all these. I also
apologise for using some stupid language. It's my mistake and I
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Deaf Cat;173095 Wrote:
And...got my attention.
Where may we read more when this happens, gonna be interesting :)
Cheers
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to a stock TP at a higher price?
Actually, in my system, the Bolder SB2 beats the Ayre..see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=125662#post125662
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the CX7 and the CX5 in a dealer store, the difference
was hardly audible. So I took the CX7 home.
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but never did one turn
out as disrespectful as you. Of course he is upset. I would be upset
too.
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I agreed out of curiosity. I never said I prefered his gear. I always
said I prefered the TP.
No, I cant change a PM. I think you know this and you are
obfuscating.
You simply don't know what you are talking about.
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I can say on this ( although I'll reserve
the right to say more just for the fun of it) :-)
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is!
Raja
Why does it matter what his opinion is
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wshields;169437 Wrote:
I got an RMA. Why would a company call something a NO RISK Purchase
plan then charge a 5% restocking fee? What does no risk mean to you
smart guy?
Come on.. you weren't born yesterday are you? This is called
Marketing!!! Such ads are all over the place.
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for $29.99 only yeah right, then you have
to pay another $15 tax.
Came in for a brake service for $99! Yeah right, you end up paying
$800!
Buy a sleep number bed, starting $599 Yeah right, the moment you
enter the store, the price goes up to $2000!
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jmourik;166190 Wrote:
My latest mod, Eight Nerve triangles and rectangles...
Jan...you gotta do one more mod - adding carpet to the floor..
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. In short this
is what we do in life.
Is this another thread intending to redicule those who offers mods, and
those who buy mods?
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I recall they gave Squeezebox 5 stars too.
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Oh this is normal. Many people who'd never listened to a mod often felt
qualified to trash them. LOL..
jhm731;162214 Wrote:
You don't have a TP, and you haven't compared it's DAC to any other
DACs, but you feel qualified to give people advise. LOL.
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Phil,
I forgot.. do you have a modded SB2??? I must admit that the stock
SB2 with stock Walwart sounded flat and liveless to me.
PhilNYC;161739 Wrote:
FWIW, I use my Transporter with an external DAC (Dodson DA-218). And it
sounds far better than my SB2 + Dodson.
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Lucky you tomjtx! It's good that you don't find much difference between
the Transporter and the Bolder SB2.
For me, I like the voodoo sound of the Bolder SB2 more than the Good
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But give me a week.
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signature PS. I'll sell it for $399
shipped - Paypal is fine with 3%.
Thanks
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has sharper image, more refinement from
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ezkcdude;153157 Wrote:
O.k., so why not just use a SqueezeBox?
Because squeezebox is not good enough.
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about the
sound quality and these people have the $'s to buy any transport they
want. Price is not necessarily indicative of performance/quality. The
Squeezebox shifted the audio paradigm.
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Ben,
What about your thought on these setup as mentioned by Phil?
1: Using the Blue Circle BC3000mkII preamp, we listened to:
-Transporter - Dodson DA-218 DAC
-SB2 (w/Elpac) - Dodson DA-218 DAC
-Oracle CD1000 - Dodson DA-218 DAC
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ever being (although I didn't and don't intend to drag an SB back
again to confirm). In this configuration, the North Star still does
the dance.
- I want it all. I want to know what Anthony can figure out about the
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post, he had the transporter earlier than the Northstar, so he
has been running the transporter to the Tact alone before the Northstar
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joncourage;145077 Wrote:
Was wondering if anyone else has had the same experience?
Just how good is the ELPAC mod? See my review here:
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.
Wow..that could possibly means..even though for people who's only going
to use the digital out of the transporter, it's well-worth the $2000
then.:))
I have listened to the Oracle before, it's very very good. I wasn't
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inputs are widely available for very little money.
XLR connections (I think) shouldn't suffer the same.
Be intersted to hear how this works out.
Jim
Jampot, can you point me to a website where I buy these RF shorteners?
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your posts on physics gave quite a few of us
actual science types a good laugh. It would be good to see you reply
with things like data and verifiable information.
Then again, you are right, as you say, so maybe you shouldn't bother
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squeezebox with upgraded power supply..:)
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AND the higher
scores of their peers.
It is a shame so many suffer the handicap of poor metacognition...
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recognise
the non-linear factors in hearing, but maintain that they can hear
differences that can't be measured.
This is wrong, subjectivists do not claim that their preferences are
duplicated. Human ears are not built equal, what sound good to one's
can sound crap to another's.
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code that create our
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detailed lecture, but read my post again, I
wrote 15kHz and up..
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the digital out of the transporter,
vs the digital out of SB3, there should be no difference whatsoever?
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, the previous post seemed to suggest that
all of the people who bought products from modders are irrational.
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Transporter mods:
http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODProduct_Code=SDTransporterCategory_Code=MODSProduct_Count=44
Unless you know him, or unless he offers money back guarantee, you will
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ErikM;142890 Wrote:
I can garentee it will sound amazing...
I am pretty much convinced that eventually we will see a series of
wireless transporter from CARY, Ayre, Merridian, Esotericwith price
ranging from $2000 to $5!!
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is better than which, because it's all in the numbers. Life can really
be so simple, I long for that day to come.
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bad products will go, it's as simple as that.
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Does anyone has any idea whether a scale-down version (WITHOUT the DAC)
of the transporter will be released one-day ?
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There will be a market, for people like me, who already owns an external
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people with
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mine, and that my sound is
slightly degraded compared to yours, but still I would pick my
degraded sound because it suits my taste better.
Hi-end audio is like cigar and wine, who's there to say that a $1000
wine is ALWAYS better than a $300 wine?
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khewa;140094 Wrote:
anyone did a comparison between a modded SB3 (analog out) and an
unmodded SB3 (digital out) to a DAC1 ?
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some interest in testing out the potential of
squeezebox, especially those that're modified by Bolders and RWA. After
listening to their mods, I simply cannot see myself spending $3000 for
a CDP.
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richidoo Wrote:
BTW. The Tact dealer, Hometheaterdoc.com, Shane Sangster was
knowledgeable and met each question with confidence while he ran the
calibration.
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there, which
one have you listened to?
Do you think the modified Sony S7770 can match the sound of a $6000
CD player (Ayre)?
thx
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companies, I just want to collect more
evidence (particularly from skeptics) that the two modification above
are either a solid improvement that will rival CD players of many
thousands, or a complete waste of time and money.
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. With so much raves generated on
modifications, I thought spending $480 to find out the truth myself is
not too ridiculous..
Rgds
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I didn't hear any difference, but then, I didn't pay $1k for the power
supply. That's a bit steep for a 5V 2A power supply...
TD
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their point that the stock power supply is
good enough.
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(including power supply), which
will cost a total of $1500 (including the squeezebox), the SB now sound
as good as the $3k-$10k CD players. Hence to them it's money well
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answer at all.
Thank you for your patience.
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is being
discussed?
Sorry I wasn't able to help you instead I'm asking for help! I'm an
absolute newbie in this.
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barry
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