Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] just got new transporter, very disappointed with sound

2009-08-08 Thread Veggen
Yes. According to Sean Adams, the designer of these boxes, 100% variable and 100% fixed is identical. No difference in how the signal is processed. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Finally I can play my 2 Channel SACD's on Transporter

2008-12-04 Thread Veggen
DVDAExplorer can rip the lossless MLP files, downmix to stereo, and save as a 24/96 wav or flac file all in one go. DSOTM DVD-A sounds fantastic through the transporter done this way. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter playing 88 kHz files

2008-02-13 Thread Veggen
Phil Leigh;268874 Wrote: > I think that's exactly it. Not sure why it has to do it so often (or why > it couldn't be told to do it at 3am) OR why we can not disable the whole knob thingy completely. I never use it anyw

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Upsampling Plugin

2008-01-15 Thread Veggen
currently played file. Not that this is what you are asking for, but I would think that writing a simple plugin that uses SoX for upsampling should be possible. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.sli

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC decode - server or SB?

2008-01-10 Thread Veggen
Craig;253443 Wrote: > Is it just me or does anyone else think the file types page could do > with some labels indicating which player you are working on? > Craig I agree, it is confusing when wanting to have different configurations for each player in a multi-room setup -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Any changes to FW v.83 that would effect sound?

2007-12-04 Thread Veggen
similar available for the TP? I have extracted FW 33 from the latest 7.0 nightly. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Lockup

2007-09-25 Thread Veggen
I have also experienced freezing of my transporter a couple of times. Needed to unplug the power cable to reset it,. I am using fw 31 with ss 6.5.5. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

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

2007-09-25 Thread Veggen
Interesting, would you have a source or link to that blindtest? -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

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

2007-08-27 Thread Veggen
Mark Lanctot;223176 Wrote: > Nonsense. The SB3 supports 24/48 just fine. Exactly, but the Pace-Car does not. Empirical audio clearly demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the SB which does not give me much confidence in their product. -- Veg

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

2007-08-27 Thread Veggen
>From Empirical Audio website: > The Squeezebox3 application currently supports only 16-bit/44.1kHz > sample-rate, > because this is a limitation of the Squeezebox3. That pretty much makes this thing useless IMO. A growing proportion of my music library is now 48kHz and 24 bits.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Distorted playback with 48khz file

2007-07-13 Thread Veggen
t; Input sampling frequency: 32Khz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz (selected > automatically) -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Distorted playback with 48khz file

2007-07-13 Thread Veggen
Isn't the Shek on of those NOS type TDA1543 based dacs? In that case it is probably 16 bit 44.1kHz only. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this th

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amiga 500 power supply for SB3 - good idea?

2007-07-13 Thread Veggen
tyler_durden;214198 Wrote: > Why bother asking when you can simply plug it in and listen to it? If > you like it use it. If you don't, don't. > TD Why bother replying when you have nothing useful to contr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amiga 500 power supply for SB3 - good idea?

2007-07-13 Thread Veggen
. Although the DC voltage is OK, the AC voltage most probably is not. Now I don't know if the Amiga power supply is the same as the C64 one, but I would check carefully before connecting it to the SB3. -- Veggen Veggen'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 and proper 96kHz operation

2007-06-21 Thread Veggen
) files only? -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 and proper 96kHz operation

2007-06-21 Thread Veggen
Ron, good work, seems you are on the right track. Youre just doing low pass filtering, right? So the stream will still be 96 khz? Would it be possible to add a "-r 48000" argument to do resampling as well?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 and proper 96kHz operation

2007-06-20 Thread Veggen
av" -r 48000 > "C:\Documents and Settings\All > Users\Programdata\InguzEQ\Temp\48000_00401FF2B1_Impulses_normal_direct.wav" > polyphase > 20070620143806: 00:04:20:06:71:21 Yes, that seemed to work. > 20070620143807: 00:04:20:06:71:21 EQ00D6FB

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 and proper 96kHz operation

2007-06-19 Thread Veggen
ied. Is that something that you would consider doing? -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthrea

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 and proper 96kHz operation

2007-06-19 Thread Veggen
SB3 itself, it seems the next best thing would be to implement the 96 to 48 conversion in slimserver with proper filtering included, before streaming to SB3. So what do you think? -- Veggen Veggen's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] How good is the DAC in the Squeezebox 3?

2007-06-07 Thread Veggen
jlmatrat;207469 Wrote: > I've also in the way some kind of SB+ from my own, by replacing the > PCM1748 with a pair of AD1865, wired through I2S. Bye bye S/PDIF! Interesting! Care to share some more details on this?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-03 Thread Veggen
est. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33156 ___ audiophiles mail

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-03 Thread Veggen
you use for your flac to wav conversion? As i said earlier using flac 1.1.3 with the flac frontend GUI with "Decode through errors" option checked worked for me. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-03 Thread Veggen
The Smokester;185068 Wrote: > Veggen, > I had similar problems. I emailed their customer service with my order > number. They immediately allowed me direct access to (a part of) their > server for 24 hours to download. This solved the problem. > So, I suggest giving customer se

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread Veggen
ning about end of stream corruption, and MD5 signature mismatch. This indicates a corrupt flac, probably due to encoding error or corruption during download. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/me

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread Veggen
miting is active? -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33156 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-01 Thread Veggen
Veggen;184419 Wrote: > Just bought the Dvorak violin concerto. Downloading now but it is slow, > only 60kB/s, this is going to take a while. > Hope it is worth the wait. > > Edit: It took around half an hour for a 100MB file, but you can > download several files in parallell

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread Veggen
Just bought the Dvorak violin concerto. Downloading now but it is slow, only 60kB/s, this is going to take a while. Hope it is worth the wait. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn Records Studio Masters on Tp & SB3

2007-02-24 Thread Veggen
her to WMA of course. > > The crash messages were a red herring. Dbpoeramp can not do the conversion in one step -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn Records Studio Masters on Tp & SB3

2007-02-24 Thread Veggen
not take more than a minute or two. Then go listen if you can hear any difference or degradation. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn Records Studio Masters on Tp & SB3

2007-02-23 Thread Veggen
r than than the other. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn Records Studio Masters on Tp & SB3

2007-02-22 Thread Veggen
doubt you will be able to hear any difference, and its fairly quick to do anyway. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn Records Studio Masters on Tp & SB3

2007-02-21 Thread Veggen
vinced. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32951 ___ audiophi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Linn Records Studio Masters on Tp & SB3

2007-02-21 Thread Veggen
, and reported the correct sampling rates. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Help needed: convert 24 bit WMA Lossless into WAV

2007-02-09 Thread Veggen
t). I assumed it would > downsample to 48k but no. Strange, these files both play and sound great on my SB3. Sure you have your file types set up correctly? -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Q:'quality' speaker cable

2007-02-05 Thread Veggen
The importance of cables is highly debateable. Have a look at this link: http://www.avihifi.co.uk/Important/cables.html -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this t

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: new Avi 'Active' speakers.. perfect?

2007-01-11 Thread Veggen
y has a DAC for the USB, so it shouldn't be much extra. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 -getting better with battery power

2006-11-30 Thread Veggen
d work, including NiMh types, just make sure they are quality high discharge cells. As to the sound quality, maybe a little bit better, but not night and day. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member