Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transcode and upsample at once?

2012-05-06 Thread Kuro
Can we get back to the topic on how to upsample FLAC to 24/96 and outputs it in WAV? Whether someone can hear the sonic improvement is a very subjective thing. It depends on the gear, the plackback materials and your hearing.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transcode and upsample at once?

2012-05-05 Thread Kuro
lake_eleven wrote: > Do you mean decoding FLAC and WAV on the LMS server by setting Server > Setting -> Advanced -> File types -> setting decoder to disabled except > for PCM?. > > I heard setting decoding on server is really not beneficial. Yes, one can use File Types to disable native FLAC s

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transcode and upsample at once?

2012-05-04 Thread Kuro
I want to test the sonic quality of SBT+EDO. So far, server side decode of FLAC instead of client side decode on SBT has provent to be better sounding for redbook material. I want to see if taking it to 96K would make it sound even better. --

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transcode and upsample at once?

2012-05-03 Thread Kuro
I want to transcode FLAC to WAV and upsample the output to 96K. First I changed FLAC output to Disabled under Advanced->File Types, so that all FLAC files will be forced to transcode to WAV. Then I added a custom-convert.conf file. The content of the file is: flc pcm * * # FT:{START=--skip=%t}U:{

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyway for Transporter to support 24/192?

2011-05-25 Thread Kuro
Assuming it is a limitation of Transporter's processing power, can we relax the fw a bit to support 24/192 WAV or AIFF? Or FLAC with lesser compression level? PS - title should read "Any way" -- Kuro

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] S/PDIF cables should be (a) - >=1.5m or (b) as short as possible?

2011-04-14 Thread Kuro
ing edge for better performance. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthrea

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Popping noises with Transporter firmware 81 and 85

2011-04-11 Thread Kuro
andyg;624155 Wrote: > Sooner than you might think, I've just checked in updated 7.6 firmware > (v86) that should fix this problem. :) I tried 7.6-32271, fw 86, the bug is still not fixed. The same "Spanish Harlem" at 24/96 still chokes the Tr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Popping noises with Transporter firmware 81 and 85

2011-04-08 Thread Kuro
rever fix all the downloads we buy... -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Popping noises with Transporter firmware 81 and 85

2011-04-07 Thread Kuro
ight side) will prevent the popping. So it is definitely the CPU running out of juice trying to decode 24/96 FLAC file. Once it is decoded, I can seek back and forth and no popping sound is heard. -- Kuro --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter failed to play 24/96 files from www.2L.no?

2010-09-07 Thread Kuro
Thanks. FW 84 for the Transporter did fix the playback problem. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter failed to play 24/96 files from www.2L.no?

2010-09-07 Thread Kuro
.6 beta? Since Logitech has removed the slimdevices.com website, I can no longer find the beta software. If you can try 7.5.1, the fw there for the Transporter is unable to play the files. -- Kuro Kuro&

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter failed to play 24/96 files from www.2L.no?

2010-09-07 Thread Kuro
I suspect it is a bug fix with SBS 7.6/new fw for the Transporter. What is the rev of the fw for your Transporter? So where do I download SBS 7.6? -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter failed to play 24/96 files from www.2L.no?

2010-09-07 Thread Kuro
e Symphony, Op. 4" and see if you have the same problem. Other HiRes files I got from other places seem to work fine. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 Vi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-08 Thread Kuro
Phil Leigh;515201 Wrote: > You need to see that video that CliveB posted, then come back and we can > continue... Hi Phil, Can you point me to the video CliveB posted? Thanks. -- Kuro Kuro's Pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-08 Thread Kuro
Phil Leigh;515300 Wrote: > Andy + Krochat > Thanks - Yes, I'm familiar with that paper - I was seekimg confirmation > from Kuro that he was talking about correlated jitter, as it wasn't > clear to me from his post. > This paper is the basis for the "slaving transp

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-08 Thread Kuro
this thread is pointless. So it seems you're using the 2.2x on the effect loop on the Transporter? I'd be very careful not to rely on the 2.2x as volume control in this configuration. The 2.2x volume control on digital domain does

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-08 Thread Kuro
ic noise so as to make it easier for some of you to understand. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-08 Thread Kuro
myself with just one music track and be able to determine if that system is good or great. Many music tracks I'm familiar with are required to fully test the capability of a system. Using one test track on ADM is no different t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-08 Thread Kuro
g. It also allows you to upsample the output to 192K to a DAC, since most DAC's reconstruction filter works better at higher sampling rate. Go to Yahoo TacT groups and ask the gurus there. They'll tell you that 2.2x and 2.2xp are all ope

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-04 Thread Kuro
latest Mark-Levinson DACs have special purpose input buffers in them. I think Esoteric has triple clocks/PLLs buffers too. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
her msg that was a mis-read / mis-understanding of Sean's post. What's the big deal with you? -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
u do not call your paying customers trolls. I support the product and I'm here to share experiences and learn from others. I think you owe me an apology here. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
e cable. Certain cables will conduct less noise than others. However, once you kill your AC noise, expensive conductive cables will no longer matter much. Let see a hand of people who use audiophile grade cables for better sound in their systems. Are you saying these people are troll

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
ust go by measurement on freq response, both setups have flat response, yet the sound is very different. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
ation. The jitter is dealt with using linear PS on all components (my TacT 2.2xp and Big Ben). BB is really just the icing on the cake, it takes TP to the last little mile where it cannot do by itself. -- Kuro Kuro&#x

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
nced transformer with Faraday shield and a PS Audio PPP for AC regeneration. Without such devices, you won't be able to hear the difference offered by BB. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.ph

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-03 Thread Kuro
ence. I think this also boils down to the resolution of ones system and the ability to discern those small differences. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

2010-02-02 Thread Kuro
ally to feed the TacT with 48K, as the ASRC can do a must easier job with integer multiple of upsampling. 44.1K and 48K are nearly identical sounding if you're like me having an Apogee Big Ben in the loop. Otherwise, 48K is tiny bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-02 Thread Kuro
ain the meaning of "incoming data is "pulled" on demand"? Because this would imply you're doing it in packets and sudden movements in an electronic circuit can produce jitter. -- Kuro Kuro's Profil

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-02 Thread Kuro
earwaxer;512903 Wrote: > This description of sound improvement by Kuro is pretty close to what I > have experienced. Hi Waxer, Is it possible for you to try a different Wifi adaptor (say a USB 802.11G)and tell us whether the sound is different? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-02 Thread Kuro
2xp's sub out via Toslink. That sounds a lot better than using coax word clock in. In fact, a bit better than TP using its internal clock. I still cannot quite explain why this is the case, as TP using its internal clock should offer more jitter free output than an ext. clock, but it d

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-02 Thread Kuro
not as long lasting and is a bit more bright and brittle. Imaging is less precise. When I switched back to the TP, immediately, the sound is more engaging and relaxed. If all digital bits are the same, then why is TP sounding better tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-01 Thread Kuro
It is just not as perfect as some would believe in here. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-01 Thread Kuro
use this utility: http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml to check for high latency of your PC that is streaming data over Wifi. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 Vi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-02-01 Thread Kuro
reclocker, removing noise induced jitter on AC line by isolation transformer and power regenerator, etc. In my case, wired or wireless is the same, because I've a Big Ben with a custom made linear power supply for removing jitter from the Transporter. -- Kuro --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter over ethernet

2010-01-31 Thread Kuro
it may explain why your wired connection results in better sound. It maybe your Wifi router that has excessive latency, or the Wifi adaptor in your SBS PC. We cannot do anything with the Transporter's Wifi adaptor, but I beleive it is a good one that does not have latency issue. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter sounding better with clock sync on Toslink, why?

2010-01-31 Thread Kuro
sounds the best that way. I've added a Big Ben b/w TP and 2.2xp now. I've replaced the SMPS in BB with a Linear PS. It sounds much better. Now with the BB in place, I can tell TP to use its internal clock and there is not much of a difference if tell TP I use the clock from 2.2xp.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter sounding better with clock sync on Toslink, why?

2010-01-28 Thread Kuro
l implemented? BTW, if I sync the clock to TP's coax word clock input, that didn't sound good at all and it is to be expected. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter and word clock base-rate multiplying support

2010-01-16 Thread Kuro
liminating jitter arriving at the DAC. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73025 __

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter and Big Ben Clock

2009-07-26 Thread Kuro
Anyone using the above combo? Any improvement in sound? -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] You can say, "I told you so..."

2009-05-25 Thread Kuro
hat’s about as much as any audiophile can realistically expect > from most tweaks!!!! > > Sorry for the “false alarm!” -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this threa

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The best power-amplifier for Logitech's Transporter?

2009-03-09 Thread Kuro
y the supply voltage rail. So you get the full "unscaled" / original digital signal, not one that is scaled down using the volume control on the TP. The scaled down digital signal will lose resolution at lower listening level. -- Kuro -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-09 Thread Kuro
cdmackay;404778 Wrote: > Kuro wrote: > > cdmackay;404725 Wrote: > >> I wonder if that model supplies power normally from the battery, or > >> whether the battery is only there for backup? > >> > >> It seems to me that a simple battery really ought t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-09 Thread Kuro
you'll hear nothing different. With PPP, the changes are very noticable. Also, try comparing the sonic quality of your system during the day vs night. If you find it is sonically better night time, then it means your line filter is not doing much to filter noise. -- Kuro ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-09 Thread Kuro
, for low-power > > sources, at least? > > cheers, > calum. But APC does not make audio equipment. They only need to generate a useable AC for your computer equipment. So how clean the AC waveform can APC generate from the battery

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-08 Thread Kuro
ease correct me. > Darren The inductor core does not work well. It is far from the performance of the PPP. If PPP scores 100, your power filter probably scores a 5. Just my $0.02 -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-08 Thread Kuro
e TP's AKM 4396 DAC, once PPP is in placed. Otherwise, you may hear Benchmark being inferior to the TP's DAC, all because TP has a better power supply than the Benchmark. This is because TP's super regulators helped reduce

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-08 Thread Kuro
cdmackay;403521 Wrote: > > Kuro;403381 Wrote: > >> You do not hear noise per se in your music, the noise manifests > itself > >> as loss in micro dynamics, less sound stage depth, loss of bass > >> tautness, loss in harmonics and increased high frequency

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile power supply / conditioning

2009-03-05 Thread Kuro
peakers in order to hear those improvements. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Duet PSU upgrade..?

2009-02-10 Thread Kuro
I'm about to do an experiment by using 8 1.2V rechargeable AA batts to power the Duet. I want to see if it can bring the digital section close to the Transporter level... -- Kuro Kuro's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter + TacT RCS 2.2XP - how to hook up?

2009-02-02 Thread Kuro
stage for one is not was wide as the Benchmark DAC1... -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevi

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter + TacT RCS 2.2XP - how to hook up?

2009-01-30 Thread Kuro
o TacT for room correction, and then take the TacT's (room corrected) digital out and feed it back to the Transporter's DAC. Is this possible? -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Loss from Ethernet Cable?

2008-10-22 Thread Kuro
rything later for a bit accurate rip. -- Kuro Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41268 ___