Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is External DAC What I'm Craving?

2008-11-07 Thread Toby Dickenson
ashmore wrote: So I love the SB3. It's hooked up to a Rotel RA 05 + Quad 11L + a KEF sub. Hi, I'm using a SB3, Rotel RA01 + Focal bookshelf speakers, and Rythmik sub. Not too dissimilar. But I notice from listening comparisons of CDs through a modest CD player that the SB3 has less range

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile Music File Protection

2008-01-21 Thread Toby Dickenson
Then, while you are at it, run the flac test on the flacs in your backup! ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Adding some bass?

2007-11-12 Thread Toby Dickenson
You should be able to connect any sub with a high level (speaker level) input to your amp. Effectively the output of your main amp is the input to the amp in the sub. Ive been using a http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/Sub_Woofers/XLS200.htm in a similar set up for 9 months now and am very pleased. On

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Adding some bass?

2007-11-12 Thread Toby Dickenson
Gibbo wrote: but i'm thinking cheap options, £100. is it possible? At that price, hmm, you could pay someone to slam your front door in time to the music. Or, to stretch the budget a little: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=645977 I hope that helps

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

2007-09-29 Thread Toby Dickenson
tonyptony wrote: I agree with mortod that you could probably do better by trying to correct that dip with moving the speakers around or maybe trying some room treatment. Or maybe moving the microphone/listening position. ___ audiophiles mailing

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

2007-09-03 Thread Toby Dickenson
tonyptony wrote: All of the stock target curves did leave the bass feeling a little weak, happily solved by adding a 0dB to 8dB ramp between 80Hz and 30Hz. Toby, how did you do this? Your .drc file contains a line PSPointsFile=somefile.txt. That file contains a definition of the target

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DRC/Inguz and Microphone Calibration

2007-08-26 Thread Toby Dickenson
tingtong5 wrote: 245KD6H (labeled X2 24.576MHz) The ratio might be correct, but the absolute frequencies are weird aren't they? 24.576MHz = 512 * 48kHz ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Another article on the loudness war ... talks about SlimDevices

2007-08-23 Thread Toby Dickenson
opaqueice wrote: One interesting point the article makes is that since many MP3 players implement some version of replaygain, the whole rationale for over-compression starts to go away. It also mentions CD changers as a reason for this trend starting. That makes more sense than previous

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DRC/Inguz and Microphone Calibration

2007-08-18 Thread Toby Dickenson
tingtong5 wrote: When using this calibration file with drc the sound becomes way too bright. So I reversed all the values (plus - minus and vice versa) but then the sound became too dull (lack of high frequencies). Ive just started trying drc too (family is out of the house all weekend -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DRC/Inguz and Microphone Calibration

2007-07-20 Thread Toby Dickenson
tingtong5 wrote: The amount of deviation from the ecm8000 response claimed by Behringer is so high that if this is really true this means this mic is totally useless without calibration. The graph posted above is not too dissimilar to another ecm8000 calibration posted here:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Nice feature on why modern music sounds bad

2007-06-30 Thread Toby Dickenson
Mark Lanctot wrote: Besides, it would be better to get them to stop doing this stupid stuff in the first place. If they won't stop that, why would they ever put RG correction data on the CD? And it is even less likely that they would put a *correct* RG value in there. it would just be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW

2007-06-28 Thread Toby Dickenson
seanadams wrote: This is about the same as complaining that you can't scratch on a CD player the same way you could on last century's phonograph... Hi Sean, Thanks for your great summary of how ff/rw work differently between CD and tape deck. It is clear that the designers of both of those

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] modding digital of squeezebox (boldercables)

2007-05-25 Thread Toby Dickenson
tricka wrote: Balanced XLR out's are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_audio ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Flac

2007-03-22 Thread Toby Dickenson
Jaco wrote: You can also give Magnatune a try. See http://www.magnatune.com/ I recently noticed flacs are available on http://www.bleep.com/ too. But Magnatune are great - visit them first :-) ___ audiophiles mailing list