Suspect the former...
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Please Read Arny.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html
-(They even back up what they are saying scientifically...)-
Agreed.
That was the reason I left the thread in the first place.
Not biting Arny, sorry old chum.
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> You are all sickening, to not be willing or able to communicate with
> anther adult human being like you have some sense is crazy. Look back at
> the way you attacked me and your so called justifications. No wonder
> this world is so messed up. Not one of you have the common
arnyk wrote:
> *Comments like "Chill out" are often interpreted as "Talking down*". If
> I haven't learned how to chill in 7 decades, it would be pretty
> hopeless. If you understand the application of DBTs to audio you'd know
> that the big message that they deliver is a hearty "Chill out".
>
arnyk wrote:
> Abusing others is a natural consequence of being a Golden Ear.
And they say Americans dont do irony... ;)
Arny,
Theres better ways to enjoy your retirement as Im sure you know.
Chill out, put on your favourite music on a good system...or any system
really...cant tell the
Yeah..
The jokes really on me.
You win.
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Which part?
My friend,
Thats just your opinion.
Mnyb wrote:
> .. but that does not really work , listen for yourself in sigthed
> testings when you know what you are testing is what brougth us the whole
> audiophile cottage industry/cult :P
>
> As arny said earlier , using this method
arnyk wrote:
> *The words you said indicate* that you don't believe that that listener
> bias and placebo effects can ruin the accuracy and relevance of your
> evaluations, and therefore you understand that any well-informed person
> will completely ignore them. If that's true, why did you
Julf wrote:
> Ears, eyes and expectations, yes. And that is just what I wanted to
> confirm, thanks!
Dont be silly.
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> The fact that you find that question silly tells a lot. Thanks for
> answering my question.
Julf
Feel free to draw whatever inference you want, not my business what you
think.
My post described my own experience in my own system with my own ears,
hopefully the OP (to which it
Ffs...
im off.
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> Just your ears, or your eyes/preconceived notions too?
Dont be so daft.
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Going back to the OP's original question for a moment, Transporter owner
here and had that exact same question.
Spent quite a bit of time listening and comparing the different digital
outputs from the TP, so have direct experience which hopefully is of
help. :)
QUICK VERSION?
Transporter Dac
Previously used BNC to BNC hookup my TP to my M2Tech Young DAC, sounding
better than onboard DAC to me and read in this parish that Sean Adams
himself had quoted BNC as best digital connection.
Last part makes sense...given Transporter is "proper" transformer
coupled 75 Ohm socket as is the
Thanks guys, all very useful information.
Wondered if adding an external clock would improve things, going to
leave it for now.
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Transporter
75 ohm BNC connection to Dac.
Hi,
Using my TP strictly as a digital transport and on forum land elsewhere
a nice chap is using his Transporter in his £ system as a digital
source.
The key to it all is an external master clock, in his case DcS Scarlatti
kit with
Heh.
touche. :)
No axe to grind chaps, just getting back into the swing of things.
As always, more than one way to skin a cat.
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Fascinating video, thanks very much.
Guy giving the talk seems kinda cool too :p
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Thanks for that.
Mnyb wrote:
No 24/96 is not enough for DoP .
I concur with the idea to use flac as much as possible for the
transporter I suggest not to use the highest compression rates for 24/96
something like -5 would do , Transporter can on rare occasions hiccup on
hard compressed
Thanks for that.
Mnyb wrote:
No 24/96 is not enough for DoP .
I concur with the idea to use flac as much as possible for the
transporter I suggest not to use the highest compression rates for 24/96
something like -5 would do , Transporter can on rare occasions hiccup on
hard compressed
Julf wrote:
I agree. Probably best to have everything in FLAC, and pre-downsample
anything above 96k to avoid resampling on the fly.
Thanks Julf.
Agree that after some listening the trade off between AIFF over Flac
isn't worth it sound quality wise, so will be making a copy of my music
and
chrissy wrote:
Hi,
what a waste! *A Raspberry Pi would do the same job.* If you go via USB
into a recent DAC that plays DSD natively ( for example the IFI Mico or
Nano) you wouldn't even have to bother about converting Highres files
into something the Transporte understands.
Greets
Thanks for the help guys, and some interesting info about Flac
compression.
I'll stick to server side processing I think, just to be sure.
BTW daft quesion?
In Advanced settings\File Types...
Setting to Disabled means server side decoding, as opposed to Native,
meaning decoded on teh
chrissy wrote:
Well, I'm not big, just rather tall and slim, but I doubt if size
matters in technical facts. It should not matter, which code transforms
flac to pcm,as long as it is correct. Nor should the protocol affect the
resulting pcm stream. I don't hear any difference on my cubietruck
paulster wrote:
I'm just going back to the original post. Why would you go for a
Transporter when you've come from a Touch? Especially if you're using a
DAC.
The Touch can output 24/192 over USB with the EDO application, which
means you can get an asynchronous connection that will also
Ex SB3/Touch guy, went over to PC based audio with Jriver.
Decided to revisit Squeezebox recently, bought a Transporter and was
very impressed!
So much so I'm using the Transporter (into my Dac) as my main digital
music source.
Still use my music server /Jriver as an AV source, but the
No.
Direct comparison, back and forth.
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BNC connection sounds noticeably more focussed and (weirdly) more
relaxed but with more detail.
Not tried glass toslink, but this is the best sofar.
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...yeah, reckon that's what I've done.
When installing LMS the first time I set what I thought were the best
audiophile settings and, yup, default conversion of AIFF to FLAC was
changed.
No loss in quality in the conversion is there?
Is there a way I can confirm conversion to flac is being done
I'm using a Transporter, running latest 87 firmware and LMS 7.9
Its not that the file is only playing hiss...the Transporter is unable
to play the file.
Gives the error Unsupported Sample Rate
I know 24/96 is the maximum, and thats fine, just want to automatically
down sample to a playable
Cheers guys, I'll look into it tonight.
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As above,
Most of my library is in AIFF format, have a lot of hires stuff.
Anything greater than 24/96 isn't being automatically downsampled...how
do I set LMS to automatically downsample
Thanks. :)
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Running my Transporter into a modded M2Tech Young with linear power
supply.
A step up from the TPs internal Dac, which is great but a little flat
dynamically imo.
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You are taking the transport DAC out of the loop or putting a WORLD
clock in. You can get a $$ single clock to clock all items. Much the
same as the clock in the school office. And if you are old enough at
the hour all the rest of the school clocks jumped at the top
Thanks,
Theres a definate change between the two settings, which I find
interesting.
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There's nothing connected to the world clock input on the back if the
Transporter, only the Oppo digital out to TP RCA Spdif input.
Happy to set it to best sounding one and and forget it, just curious
about what's happening and why? :)
Testing Transporter Dac tonight, and hooked up my Oppo 103d disc player
to the Transporter via irate RCA digi out to TP digital in.
So using TP as Dac.
Very nice sound, going through options on Tap display though there's one
that's confusing me?
Current Settings/ (13 of 17)
Word Clock on
Will be trying Transporter from its analogue outputs initially, heard
fantastic things about its Dac.
Ever curious, I wish to try it as a digital transport too into my own
Dac, an M2Tech Young Dac.
For this, is there an accepted best digital connection?
I know a fair bit of the theory between
Fair point gary.
On my dac I have Spdif coax, Optical, BNC and AES so will try 'em all,
see if the balanced connections are any better.
Its short cable lengths so dont have any expectations.
As always, you need to hear these things for your self. :)
Just ordered a 1.5m Belden 1649a BNC/BNC cable from Bluejeans. :)
Have a loan of a few of the other types of cables coming, be
interesteing to compare in my system.
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in my own system and it didn't
make my Touch sound any different, maybe others would though and thats
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stones? Willing to give them a try?
If your willing to loan me a set
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for everything is merely an
indication that you are on the right track.
Question for the guys who are demanding Soundcheck prove his no
claims contribution to the Community and be honest ;)
You running TT3 with your Touch setup?
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tweaks out for himself - you will be flabbergasted!
Oh, just forgot to mention: no claims made of course ...
your a dick :)
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then how can you rate these tweaks at all without first hand experience
... - I am glad that there is (at least so far) no reason to do so ...
Did you try the blanket fish skin tweak?
Sorry, I've no idea what you just said.
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Thats all, nothing rude or sinister. :)
Did you genuinely mean me to try tweaks you suggested?
I'm all for simple and cheap tweaks that work, but putting the Touch in
a wooden box and wearing a tinfoil hat is fucking stupid. ;)
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The plural of anecdote is not data ;)
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on power on) will remove
all your
modifications and revert to the installed firmware.
Enjoy!
The Logitech guys have a sense of humour about their product, why cant
we? :)
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I've called the tweaking a day till TT4 comes around.
TT3 except display and IR, with default Logitech priorities and tt -k.
Good enough to forget about tweaking and enjoy the music..well until a
fit n forget solution comes along, hopefully with TT4.
If not, happy with what I have.
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funny :)
Would you ACTUALLY try that and report back your findings?
Might work?
Cos you never know unless you actually try it yourself.
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SBGK;678865 Wrote:
can you put your mum on for a moment.
I burst out laughing when I read that...
Tongue in cheek but very funny
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What the fuck have YOU done for the community, other than moan about
someone who HAS (on his own time)?
Whats the agenda here?
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brought the balance back.
*confused* ?
Wanted to try this but Pdflush isn't in the TT file?
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- ps -eo pid,tid,class,pri,rtprio,cmd
thanks very much, I didn't have the line:
chrt -f -p 98 154 /dev/null 21
now added.
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sound - apart form the
crackle.
Any thoughts/comments?
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Jeff Flowerday;676758 Wrote:
Maybe you need to increase your buffer size to alleviate the crackle.
Tried that, raised it past 20,000 and it still crackled.
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thanks for sharing your knowledge with this stuff. :)
Klaus' mods are really making a good improvement now.
Be great to try the next round of improvements.
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Get a demo and hear for yourself, your ears are different! :)
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Can highly recommend this:
http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/power-supplies/346-mains-cables-r-us-dc-power-supply.html
Designed and built fron the ground up by someone who really knows his
onions (he designs amps and valve front end Dacs) its a bit
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(or to cover it up).
Correct me, I know I'm wrong.
classic :)
This is discussed here as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usTT3RuWu_g
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or publicise a new version, that's
his right, and we should respect it.
+1
Chill, Klaus is doing this on his own time and we should be grateful.
If you cant wait, write some new mods yourself? :)
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the change in the
rcS file itself? Same difference, eh?
Why not do that?
You do need to reboot though I think..
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ah..didn't know that, I'm editing the rcS file directly, hence the need
to reboot.
Sorry Alex, giving you duff info there.
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Caiman user here...
tweaking the different SPDIF values changes the sound noticably,
particularly in bass depth and soundstage.
Settled on value of 48 for now, but doing some new diy mods to my Dac,
so will have a play again once my ears burn in with the new discreet
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That's what I thought, but I reckon better ask, just in case...
Yeah, no worries.
Hey, are you making sure your rebooting teh Touch in between every
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from that?
Sitting in front of the speakers changing the spdif value would be the
idea way to go about it I think.
Anyone done this kind of thing?
Seems the idea way to check the best value for your system if you dont
run Squeezeserver from a laptop?
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Klaus (Soundcheck)..
have you had a chance to try the new Touch mods yet?
Are your Toolbox 3.0 mods doing anything similar?
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eliminate switching nose Im getting with the Gator in place).
If theres enough space between teh cap and the PCB, can it be done just
wrapping the film cap wire around the legs of the caps?
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over on AOS doing nothing, so if I can use them somehow that would be
good.
(always looking for new effectivce mods you see!)
ta.
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some inductor filtering
film cap bypass of ac coupling caps (Is this different from the
Passive Mod, done on the original (non Gator) opamp board?
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not trying to be funny, but your stating opinion when you say you did
not hear any difference.
Others have tried it and find it worthwhile.
Its ok to disagree :)
I upsample via SOX in my setup, so all my conversion is done at the
server end anyway...
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how many of you cynics have done the mods?
(or at least tried and thought you heard a difference (Not necessarily
a big improvement...but something?)
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4000 here too.
Latest 7.6 beta with latest 7.6 firmware
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magiccarpetride;623495 Wrote:
It was a belated April Fool's joke! Lighten up, people;)
MOST of us knew that Alex... :)
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is a dangerous thing I guess... :)
So in the context of SOX (and thanks Phil too, saw your comment as
well) - its actually better on paper to go to 96 rather than 88.2?
Less lossy?
Thats the ideal I guess.
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I've heard that Touch sounds way worse than SB3. This is due to the fact
that Touch comes shipped out of the factory with a buffer size at
20,000.
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upsample in your own setup.
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better calms my audio OCD! :)
Seriously though, upsampling to 88.2 does sound better (to me) than
native redbook and 96khz.
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I've just rebuilt the TOUCH entirely in Wood. The results are
unbelievable!
paint the edges of the case green...makes for more organic mids.
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Don't have a Gator board so cant comment on burn in.
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B. himself says there is no difference sound quality wise...apart from
what I mentioned earlier.
Hope this helps.
Gaz.
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just enjoying yourself
too much on Hifi forums.
no more from me.
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with this bullshit.
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
its to do with evidence of paranormal activity - not hifi cables.
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Nothing wrong with that my friend, but it isn't my idea of a good time.
So no more from me on this.
have fun :)*
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the irony? :)
You do sound as though you believe what your saying, so I accept your
serious in that regard, its just what you are saying I dont take
serious.
But hey, each to their own isn;t that what they say?
I'll agree to disagree if thats ok.
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