Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] is there THAT much difference betweeen SB3 ran through quality DAC and Transporter?

2008-08-01 Thread Chinanico
ould be better to try it in your system. For myself, I got the SB3 + external DAC, what I can tell you is that I don't hear much difference between the digital output of the SB3 and my CEC drive... -- Chinanico __

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] B&W 805s

2007-11-15 Thread Chinanico
mbination than an audiophile one... -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Concentra 2 > System Audio SA2K --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz or Behringer DEQ2496?

2007-11-08 Thread Chinanico
) compared to a straigth WAV streaming. Lacks of dynamics, loss of micro-informations and musicality. But, on some music, what it brings in postive (in particular in the bass and in clarity of the voices) far over-compensates the negati

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Contemplating a DAC...

2007-11-01 Thread Chinanico
positioning them better in the room, that could certainly make a big(ger?) improvement. -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Concentra 2 > System A

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Choices

2007-11-01 Thread Chinanico
en if here also I understand the limitations (different tastes and different set-ups). -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Choices

2007-10-31 Thread Chinanico
th my DAC sound (at least with the CEC drive), and as it already costs 8,500 USD, there isn't much to "upgrade" with 500 USD darrenyeats;239175 Wrote: > Chinanico, > I would invite a friend round and do a little blind test. > > That's a great idea... and might p

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Choices

2007-10-31 Thread Chinanico
://www.altmann.haan.de/jitter/english/engc_navfr.html - 6. Put the money in the bank (come on that’s twice the price of the SB3 already, you fool…) Is any of them likely to change anything? Any thoughts ? Thanks -- Chinanico

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Earthworks M30 vs ECM 8000 side-by-side test for Inguz DRC

2007-09-29 Thread Chinanico
ould use by default if we didn't have had calibration (and that might better the default from DRC)... or maybe we will see that there is no way but to have a calibration. I know some of you guys already published files, but we could start to collect the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Earthworks M30 vs ECM 8000 side-by-side test for Inguz DRC

2007-09-27 Thread Chinanico
etter, sometimes not, depending on the music (definitly clearer and with more lisibility, but sometimes too much on the dry side...) -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Conce

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-27 Thread Chinanico
; to 1/6 octave if you want your curve to be readable. -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Concentra 2 > System Audio SA2K -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] 16/44 vs. 24/96 Format Comparison

2007-09-27 Thread Chinanico
d to double blind over 500 persons (refered to as 2/500), I highly recommend quadruple blind tests over 1000 persons (4/1000), that gives much more precise result... -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Ma

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Interesting SlimServer experience...

2007-09-26 Thread Chinanico
differences but I'd like to have the flexibility of a wireless connection without it dropping at times. Didn't go as far as hard wired yet, though. -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro &

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-25 Thread Chinanico
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-24 Thread Chinanico
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-24 Thread Chinanico
Hi Chris, As a matter of fact, I would appreciate if you could share some of your experience as a tester, not sure how to import the Inguzprep measurement files into Audiolense, or how to make measurements directly by sending the signal into the squeezebox. Thanks Nicolas -- Chinanico

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-23 Thread Chinanico
rd about it? -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Concentra 2 > System Audio SA2K Chinanico's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-21 Thread Chinanico
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Level matching - a cautionary tale

2007-09-21 Thread Chinanico
That's very true, and I am also being cautious about that while evaluating the effects of the Inguz plugin, since depending on teh level of correction, the gain will change. -- Chinanico CEC TL51X

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-19 Thread Chinanico
is a computer power issue. As after correction, the signal goes FLAC, should I store all my music in FLAC as well (now is WAV), for smoother operation, or it has no impact? There are a few clippings, I had to go down to -18db, and might have to go to -20db, is that too

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-19 Thread Chinanico
it is to look at these things at 1/24 octave. That's REQW and I converted to 16 bits, only one channel here. Don't know much about the smoothing, though, I'll look into it. Thanks. I was kind of surprised to see all this mess in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] First shot at using Inguz

2007-09-19 Thread Chinanico
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)

2007-09-17 Thread Chinanico
). Clearing memory didn't help... I still got the ? -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Concentra 2 > Sys

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)

2007-09-14 Thread Chinanico
;s yours? I also have 6.5.4, and now I rescanned my library, the files finaly appear on slimserver, but not the characters: all file names displayed as question marks (?), they play on the SB3 but also with ? on the screen..

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)

2007-09-13 Thread Chinanico
much into this issue yet, but for now my chinese song were not even recognized by slimserver... Thanks -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Audiomat Maestro > Jeff Rowland Concentra 2 > System A

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)

2007-09-12 Thread Chinanico
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 and Headphones

2007-09-10 Thread Chinanico
ers is much more to my liking that throught the RS-1 (nothing to do with SB or connections I guess, just coming for the respective qualities of the downstream equipments). -- Chinanico CEC TL51X / SB3 > Au

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best digital output... Coax or Tos?

2007-09-10 Thread Chinanico
Did anyone use this io gel product for toslink in their tests and notice a difference in quality? http://www.auralsymphonics.com/iogel.html I love their disclaimer about problems of digital lock, though... -- Chinanico

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best digital output... Coax or Tos?

2007-09-06 Thread Chinanico
ty to hear a difference between my SB3+toslink and my CEC drive + XLR AES cable (the cable costing itself twice the price of a squeezebox). It came as a desapointment regarding my ability to wisely invest my money and I (temporarily I guess) gave it a b

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] 48/24 FLAC/WAV issue with SB3

2007-08-22 Thread Chinanico
transmit 44/16 FLAC files in WAV format (as all my CDs were ripped as WAV). Thanks -- Chinanico Chinanico's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12794 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sb4 ?

2007-08-16 Thread Chinanico
amplifiers on sale right now, the large part is made of "receivers" for home cinema, which anyway come with at least 3 digital inputs. -- Chinanico Chinanico's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Empirical Audio Pace-Car Reclocker

2007-08-16 Thread Chinanico
ral kind of esoteric accessories. But today I decided to register and psot a comment: look at the price of this reclocker, plus the SB3, you almost get a Transporter with already better jitter figure, and if I am not wrong a world clock input... what's the point of this reclocker?