Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Online source for sensible interconnects?

2008-08-10 Thread Mike Anderson
http://www.partsexpress.com/ -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View th

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Plug your SB3 into this!

2007-04-22 Thread Mike Anderson
;The improved SQ is not worth the extra cash,"- might they really mean, -"I can get a greater improvement in SQ by spending the extra cash on something else"-? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Plug your SB3 into this!

2007-04-21 Thread Mike Anderson
quot; = "better sound." Sure, there's some correlation there, but that's not a guarantee of anything. The Kaboom box costs much less than a Bose radio, but the sound quality of the Kaboom blows the doors off a Bose (not to mention all the extra features.) -- Mike Anderson 'FR

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Plug your SB3 into this!

2007-04-20 Thread Mike Anderson
the Ferrari gizmo only sounds 5% better? Or if some other expensive product gives even more bang-for-the-buck? Probably not. But apparently I'm a moron, by your estimation. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.co

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Plug your SB3 into this!

2007-04-20 Thread Mike Anderson
adamslim;196339 Wrote: > Totally man. Like CD players - why buy a Wadia when you can get a Tesco > DVD player for £15 and play DVDs too! Like, duh!!! Have you actually heard one? (The Kaboom box, I mean.) -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Plug your SB3 into this!

2007-04-19 Thread Mike Anderson
, but that's hardly worth thousands of dollars more. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter and digital signal processing loop

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Anderson
see it in action and compare for > themselves... Not exactly thousands of folks... but until this feature > is added, the transporter is a waste for them and they've stayed > away Add one more here. I'd buy one today. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter or Tact 2150XDM

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Anderson
hard-pressed to tell the difference between the DACs (and I'm guessing, the amps, depending on exactly what changes you're making). -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Thoughts on DEQX PDC-2.6P and Bi-amping

2007-01-14 Thread Mike Anderson
he idea of the DEQX is that it is supposed to give you EQ *and* coherent phase correction at all frequencies. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson&

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Thoughts on DEQX PDC-2.6P and Bi-amping

2007-01-14 Thread Mike Anderson
to know if anybody has any experience with the DEQX, however, as I'm really interested in all the features it offers (very detailed room correction with proper phasing, etc). -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) H

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Thoughts on DEQX PDC-2.6P and Bi-amping

2007-01-14 Thread Mike Anderson
Is there someway I can make sure the volumes are properly coordinated at all times? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: htt

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Thoughts on DEQX PDC-2.6P and Bi-amping

2007-01-14 Thread Mike Anderson
Right, on the 3.6Rs, the main crossover is external, and bi-amping pretty easy to do (and in fact it seems to be designed for that purpose). Not sure about tri-amping though. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free ra

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Thoughts on DEQX PDC-2.6P and Bi-amping

2007-01-14 Thread Mike Anderson
'm a big believer in room correction, so the DEQX is really intriguing. But I'd be curious to hear what people have to say about the sound quality. Is it worth the bucks? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (h

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: sound stage width

2006-12-31 Thread Mike Anderson
Pat Farrell;165528 Wrote: > Pot, hemp, weed, MJ, Acapulco Gold, etc. OH. You mean... (looks around furtively)... -Mary Jane!- -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: There are many questions about the use of preamps...

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Anderson
empty99;164722 Wrote: > I've done some headphone listening of specially recorded music using > microphones embeded in a dummyhead. Interesting, where can you find such music? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: There are many questions about the use of preamps...

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Anderson
mes into play -- primarily to deal with the nodes in the bass frequencies. I suppose it's possible to deal with those using room treatment alone, but for most of us living in real-world circumstances (with wives, and limited funding/technical expertise), that's not realistic. --

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Grado sr60, sr80 or something else

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Anderson
I have the HD650s, and my iPod drives them fine. Not ear-blisteringly loud, but then you shouldn't be listening that loud anyway. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of fr

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Grado sr60, sr80 or something else

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Anderson
ecomes uncomfortable in extended listening sessions.) -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 plus DAC vs Transporter with or without DAC

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Anderson
ence at that level (and by "golden ears" I mean "people with very active imaginations"). -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Ander

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Analog volume using Transporter

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Anderson
anks for any help. > > Walt Shields > > Transporter->MF KW500-> Wilson Sophia I agree with the above advice. BTW, I am running an SB2 into a Benchmark DAC1 and then into a MF KW500, then into Magnepan's. What do you think of the KW500? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICA

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Cable burn-in, does this work?

2006-12-02 Thread Mike Anderson
your cables sit on the kitchen countertop for a few days. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Effects of the SB on the "Hi-End" Audio Industry

2006-09-23 Thread Mike Anderson
joncourage;138546 Wrote: > Having recently invested a modest (very modest) amount of $ in a HTIB, I > then came across the Squeezebox somewhere (thanks I think to our very > own Mike Anderson who posts on another forum I hang at). You're definitely not the only person who bought o

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Squeezebox Class D!

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Anderson
;m very pleased with it. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View this th

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: High Bit Rate MP3 vs Lossless Compression

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Anderson
If you must encode with MP3 at anything less than 320 kbps, you should really be using VBR (variable bit rate) encoding. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Squeezebox Class D!

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Anderson
doubt any resulting improvement would be worth the money. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.p

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Any way to improve sound quality ?

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Anderson
ut the effect of room correction. You can hear it right quite obviously, and it's huge. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Pr

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: digital room correction

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Anderson
sn't, but then it only costs a couple hundred bucks. Works for me. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimde

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: digital room correction

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Anderson
generated until after the EQ is done and the signal is sent to the DAC1. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: I need a DAC !

2006-07-22 Thread Mike Anderson
ModelCitizen Wrote: > I'd be wary of the Benchmark myself (and possibly any oversampling DAC). > Some people think they sound clinical, cold, flat, lifeless and two > dimensional. Who says that? I love my DAC1, I don't think it sounds clinical, cold, lifeless or flat

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best Audiophile Music Server

2006-06-26 Thread Mike Anderson
There's an audiophile born every minute. You're right on time. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.s

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: An audiophile forum without an Audiophile SB!!! Let's define our needs!

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Anderson
Personally, I'm quite happy running my SB2 into a Benchmark 1. Anything capable of beating it would probably be pretty expensive, and I seriously doubt I'd drop the $$ on those kinds of diminishing returns. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) H

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 + high end DAC versus high end CD Player?

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Anderson
is would be the case, assuming you've got error-free rips of your CDs. Can any engineers or technophiles address this issue? thanks -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. -

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: digital room correction

2006-06-08 Thread Mike Anderson
radish Wrote: > Because inexpensive != free? Even if the Behringer costs $100, what if I > want to use DRC on every squeezebox in my apartment? That's plenty of > cash. Free is better :) True enough. But at the very least, you're going to have to buy a microphone! -- M

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: digital room correction

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Anderson
point? Anybody who's looking for an inexpensive, convenient solution should really check this out first. I stick my Behringer between the digital outs of the Squeezebox and the digital inputs of a Benchmark DAC1. It's all digital, and it sounds awesome. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE R

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: digital room correction

2006-06-06 Thread Mike Anderson
I've had very good results using the Behringer DEQ2496. Unfortunately, on the topic of room correction the manual leaves a lot to be desired. Here's my little primer: http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?t=16568 -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://n

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking to buy an intergrated amp and I need help

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Anderson
hy separates"? The only advantage I can see is that you can swap out one part without changing the other. But some of us like to buy gear and hold it rather than playing the musical chairs game. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking to buy an intergrated amp and I need help

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Anderson
ave to think my amp is a pretty insignificant source of environmental damage. But not joking, SUVs and large trucks are a different story. By comparison, my wife an I share a single Honda Civic between the two of us. So the amp is covered! -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADI

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking to buy an intergrated amp and I need help

2006-06-03 Thread Mike Anderson
joncourage Wrote: > I believe the following are all worth considering: > > Musical Fidelity > Another vote for MF. I had an MF A3.2 I got used for $700, and I loved it. Very clean power, and built like a tank. I just passed it along to my brother, and he loves it too. -- M

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking to buy an intergrated amp and I need help

2006-06-03 Thread Mike Anderson
My Pathos Logos has 220w/channel at 4 ohms, and I -still- have to crank it up to about 60% of max volume to get it nice and loud. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Pathos Systems

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Anderson
size, musical preferences, budget, etc. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 Vi

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Pathos Systems

2006-05-17 Thread Mike Anderson
rocky2889 Wrote: > Or should I get the their ClassicOne Amp and InControl Preamp. You don't need the InControl Preamp with the Classic One; it's an integrated amp -- preamp and power amp in the same unit. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd)

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Pathos Systems

2006-05-17 Thread Mike Anderson
again, and it's fine. Overall I'm very pleased with the amp. Don't know that I would have paid full price for a new one, but if you can one used for < $2900 or so, it's a good deal. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE R

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Benchmark DAC1, the next step ?

2006-05-17 Thread Mike Anderson
also like being able to put a 24/96 signal into the DAC1 (e.g. from a DVD player, not the SB2). That's a real treat. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SqueezePower final design Power supply

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Anderson
OK, but is it bulletproof? I need mine to be bulletproof. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/me

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Lighten up, this is supposed to be fun.

2006-04-14 Thread Mike Anderson
rostitution the oldest profession? Just thought I'd throw that out there. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://fo

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Power supply upgrade

2006-04-08 Thread Mike Anderson
> Small 4"wx5d"2"h BULLET PROOF extruded aluminum enclosure. What, are you planning on using it in a war zone? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Part 2 of Enjoy the Music SqueezeBox review

2006-03-11 Thread Mike Anderson
emain fairly agnostic about this stuff until these sorts of tests are replicated. Unfortunately, few people do them even once... -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-06 Thread Mike Anderson
16 bit 44khz if you wanted to make red book CDs. But it sure would be cool! -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forum

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Coax or Optical

2006-03-06 Thread Mike Anderson
es! So the coax is a bad influence even if I'm actually listening to > the optical. How do you figure? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone recommend decent speaker cable?

2006-03-05 Thread Mike Anderson
zooropa320 Wrote: > this one? > DAYTON GOC-1.5 GLASS OPTICAL DIGITAL CABLE Yup, that's it. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike And

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone recommend decent speaker cable?

2006-03-05 Thread Mike Anderson
> The only one I couldn't get was a toslink (optical out from my cable > box) because they don't sell those. I just ordered some of these from Parts Express: http://tinyurl.com/rl67b The glass optical cables work well, and don't cost an arm and a leg. -- Mike Anderson

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone recommend decent speaker cable?

2006-03-05 Thread Mike Anderson
they actually look kind of cruddy. You'd have to be be very careful with them to keep them looking smooth and pretty. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. M

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What Amp and Speakers Are You Using?

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Anderson
pfarrell Wrote: > One warning, any EQ that mortals can afford will > change the phase of the signal at some or many > frequencies. What would this sound like? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours o

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What Amp and Speakers Are You Using?

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Anderson
I'm not terribly worried about it. It doesn't cost a fortune in any case. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forum

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What Amp and Speakers Are You Using?

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Anderson
ant to soften them up a little to make the differences less dramatic. 4) Finally, adjust to taste (e.g. I like a little more bass, less brightness). That works pretty well for me. But I'll have to check out what's going on in the rest of the room. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What Amp and Speakers Are You Using?

2006-03-01 Thread Mike Anderson
SB2 digital out -> Behringer DEQ2496 digital out -> Benchmark DAC1 XLR balanced out -> Pathos Logos -> Magnepan 1.6qr -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Where is the incredible sound?

2006-02-20 Thread Mike Anderson
pablolie Wrote: > Fraunhofer institute has repeatedly lined up audiophile experts, and > they've never been able to reliably tell the difference between 320k > and 256k MP3 encoding. I'm interested in this research, but couldn't find it on their website. Do you ha

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Volume bug - can you really hear it?

2006-02-18 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ I should mention that I'm running Windows XP, with an SB2. I tried downloading the latest nightly, but I can't even get the firmware upgrade to work. It tells me to hold down the brightness key to upgrade the fw, but nothing happens when I hold down the brightness key. -- Mik

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Volume bug - can you really hear it?

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ I second that request; I haven't updated in a while because I have a stable version. So what's the most recent (and stable) version I should download that has the volume bug fixed? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

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

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Anderson
It was amazing enough that I got up to take the photo. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/memb

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

2006-02-04 Thread Mike Anderson
i-cables, bi-wired -> Magnepan 1.6QRs. [image: http://static.flickr.com/25/95506015_927d70d283_o.jpg] -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: 44.1khz...

2006-01-21 Thread Mike Anderson
ers - even cheap ones - have optical digital output. I take the digital out from my DVD player, and run it into my Benchmark DAC1 for super-high quality 24/96 sound without having to buying an SACD/DVD-A player (which is just money down the drain, in my opinion.) -- Mike Anderson 'FREE

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SPDIF - 16 or 24 bit?

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Anderson
olume on the integrated amp. Intuition had told me to keep the volume at max on the SB2 and the DAC1, but the above discussion confuses me. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of fr

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: How to make my system sound better by spending $1000?

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Anderson
e is harder to compress than comparatively pure tones. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best subwoofer for music under $1000?

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Anderson
. Or, you can buy them assembled for a little more. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone here got a $50 power cord?

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Anderson
you can only tell the difference 51% of the time, then you're going to have to do a lot more than 16 trials to detect that difference. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Advice on an amplifier

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Anderson
I like to walk around, and I also like to entertain company a lot, so for me it's a drawback that the sweet spot is so small. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. --

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Advice on an amplifier

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Anderson
good current, not necessarily a lot of power. It tends to be the case that high-watt amps can provide the current, so people tend to associate them with requiring lots of watts. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Advice on an amplifier

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Anderson
ant to, after four months you can trade them back in for full value towards a set of higher-value Magnepans. That's what I'm doing to get the 1.6qr's. Those people are just like drug dealers -- they give you a little taste of the good stuff, and you're hooked! -- Mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Advice on an amplifier

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Anderson
k DAC1, etc. Make sure you prepare your wife amply for your new hobby; now would be a great time to buy her some new jewelry! -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. -

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 - Benchmark DAC-1 versus Analogue Out

2006-01-09 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ That's hilarious -- I just bought a piece at Ikea yesterday using the same thinking! -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson&

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 - Benchmark DAC-1 versus Analogue Out

2006-01-08 Thread Mike Anderson
t five tries, that would be statistically significant at the .05 level. If you could only tell one from the other 51% of the time, you'd have to do a lot more than 16 trials to get a statistically significant difference from random guessing (which would be 50%). -- Mike Anderson 'FRE

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 - Benchmark DAC-1 versus Analogue Out

2006-01-08 Thread Mike Anderson
a $300 receiver + speakers setup than a serious audiophile rig. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Replaygain affecting sound quality?

2006-01-08 Thread Mike Anderson
s alone and set album gain to 0 > dB. Actually, what I want to do is this: Instead of having replaygain normalize everything to 89db, I'd like to have it normalize everything to 99 db. Is there some way I can do this with foobar or any other program? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Replaygain affecting sound quality?

2006-01-08 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ I take it I can do this with track gain as well? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Replaygain affecting sound quality?

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Anderson
Craig Wrote: > I was thinking about changing all my Album gain tags to 0db to see what > happens - I'll let you know. How does one do this? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone here got a $50 power cord?

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Anderson
listened to a large number of samples in a randomized, double-blind experiment under halfway rigorous conditions. The result? No difference. You didn't even need to calculate a p-value; it was extremely close to 50% guessing at random. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (ht

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: ReplayGain, sound quality and amp work

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Anderson
RichardG Wrote: > I changed line 274 in Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm to: my $db = ( shift ) > + 10; and was very happy with the result. This doesn't seem to work for me; anyone else have any luck with it? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Why doesn't Slim Devices create an audiophile version?

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Anderson
that the Squeezebox is, from a purely technical standpoint, a non-neglible source of jitter. Whether your average Joe can tell the difference compared to a $100 CD-plyaer is another issue - but it is at least measureable. In any case, it sounds damned well good enough for me, at the moment anywa

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-12-18 Thread Mike Anderson
an tell the difference -- but what's the point now? To find out whether I wasted my $28? Nahh I'm content to think I haven't! Ideally, somebody else would have done these tests before I decided to buy one. :) -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: A sudden thought...

2005-12-18 Thread Mike Anderson
ly nice GUI for the Squeezebox, I'm married to it for good. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "Audiophile" review of SB3

2005-12-03 Thread Mike Anderson
tomsi42 Wrote: > The noise from the linear PSU is 60Hz (50Hz over here) which affect the > analog outputs. Fortunaltely, it is reasonly easy to filter out. If I'm using analog outs, should I stick with the stock power supply then? What would I do to filter out the 60Hz noise?

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Accuracy of EAC

2005-12-01 Thread Mike Anderson
read offset. Somewhere on the hydrogenaudio forum there's a post with the instructions for setting up EAC properly. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mik

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-12-01 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ Thanks. Yeah, that's my plan at this point, get the 1.6's and then think about DACs. By then they will have dropped in price even further! -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-26 Thread Mike Anderson
rhaps folks tried the lower powered model and found it suitable as > well. I'm not an EE, but perhaps somebody else with sufficient > knowledge can chime in. If someone can confirm, that'd be very helpful, as I just placed the order for the 050 and would need to cancel it soon i

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-26 Thread Mike Anderson
mac Wrote: > Elpac model WM050-1950-760. > > http://www.elpac.com/uploads/documents/datasheets/WM%20REV%20A.pdf Thanks, found it. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours o

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-26 Thread Mike Anderson
mac Wrote: > Btw, the Elpac supply doesn't require any soldering skills. It's plug > and play. Are you sure about this? The text on the link you posted specifically says "kit" and requires soldering. And the picture sure looks like it's a kit. -- Mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
tion says: "Skill Level of Item:: (Kit - Basic Soldering Required)" -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: htt

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ Come on now, do you have to use insulting words like "audiofool"? Can't you make your point in a more respectful way? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ Thanks for the advice. Thinking about it more, I figure I ought to save up my pennies and think about trading up my MMGs for the 1.6qr's, because I'm not sure how big a difference a new DAC would make if I don't have true hi-fi speakers anyway. -- Mike Anderson '

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
^^^ Audiogon has used Benchmark DAC1's going for $600. I'd be interested to hear what others have to say about how much of a difference it makes. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
skvinson Wrote: > Did you ever get an answer about a pre-assembled version? Not yet. /// -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson&#x

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
Yes, I'm thinking about getting a used Benchmark DAC 1. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
Where would I get a pre-assembled version of that power supply? I don't even own a solder gun. Sorry I'm such an idiot; my expertise lies in other areas. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-25 Thread Mike Anderson
x27;t know if "hell bent" is the word, I'm just researching it at this point. I like the internal DAC OK, but the question is whether it's possible to improve on it, yes? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RA

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-24 Thread Mike Anderson
OK. What about upgrading the DAC, that's not likely to affect the sound? -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://fo

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best mod?

2005-11-24 Thread Mike Anderson
mac Wrote: > Neither! If you really feel the urge to modify the unit simply replace > the power supply with a linear one. > > http://www.electronics123.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.41/it.A/id.476/.f What does that involve, opening up the unit and soldering? -- Mike Anderson 'FR

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best mod?

2005-11-24 Thread Mike Anderson
They seem to be priced roughly the same.) thanks, Mike -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.ph

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: FLAC - Did it Compress Correctly?

2005-11-14 Thread Mike Anderson
single instrument sections can > compress much better than this and can even get to sub 50%. Noise is also a lot harder to compress than pure tones. My time series professor used to argue that if you look at the frequency spectrum of rock and roll, it looks a lot more like noise than classical mu

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Question for Sean

2005-10-30 Thread Mike Anderson
e punches me in the face and flattens my nose. Now it sounds even better. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles

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