beyond
the speakers for you, but that doesn't mean it will for me.
Which, of course, is why it's all so much fun :D
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95bcwh;163229 Wrote:
I recall they gave Squeezebox 5 stars too.
I think the only way not to is to beat up the reviewer's granny :)
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use this on
tubes, trains and on noisy streets. I can't really see that investing
a four-figure sum would make that much difference.
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, which has all
you need for about £20.
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. speakers), I
still like to have a long time to decide which I *really* prefer.
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I'd put these ahead of cables on your list.
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When I got my new speakers off ebay, unwrapped them and plugged them in,
my wife's response was and you got them for under £800? Cool!
The old girlfriends gently tolerated the music and the hifi, but I knew
which one to marry :)
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mr335;161710 Wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance but does that 220 VAC option mean it has a
selector to switch to UK voltage ratings? Or do I defintely need to
order it specially?
I suggest contacting Jolida, but it looks like a special order.
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and earlier - modern valve kit is
a different beast altogether.
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inherent in your system.
If you're looking at sub-£200 then Wharfedale might be a good place to
look, although spending a bit more (or hitting ebay) might give better
results.
HTH
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jhm731;161692 Wrote:
Are you saying the Transporter isn't revolutionary?
Of course not. CDs are revolutionary. FLACs just fly across the ether
cleverly; they don't revolve...
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and cabling
sorted though, but this shouldn't eat too much into your £200 budget.
HTH
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it driving
some old KEFs. It sounded great, much better than the
Audiolab/Cyrus/Rotel/Arcam integrateds that I tried, and it was loud
enough for a teenager into Hendrix (albeit one whose parents
weren't...)
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your lamb. I like this image :)
I have a chinese amp (a Ming-Da) driving a pair of Harbeth HLP3-ES
speakers in my kitchen system which sound great too. It doesn't go
that loud (the Harbeths are quite low sensitivity), but it's plenty for
my small kitchen.
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is to go to a DAC or digital amp.
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. They'll go for £100
or less, and will be far better than anything you can buy new for £500,
IMO. They are perfect for valves - easy load, nice and sensitive,
wonderful midrange.
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/prebudgetreport2006/story/0,,1966201,00.html
Ceejay
That's an issue because we don't have it already - there are no fair
play rules here in the UK. The US has them now, but seems hell-bent on
getting rid of them!
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ob_kook;160059 Wrote:
EVERYTHING else has been extremely low on the WAF.
Sounds to me like you need wife correction products. I recommend
shoes. And let her choose a nice rug for your hard floor, maybe?
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Get EAC to run the FLAC encoder, then you can add tags to your heart's
content. It can do this automatically as you rip.
Help is at hand:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACBeginners
HTH
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rate is.
Why not try it and compare the sound with the SB? Do post results :)
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a
picture of the TP, I got an 'ugh, boring' response. She actually likes
the look of my valve CD and amp, and was pretty unhappy about the tuner
when I got it. I'd struggle to get another black box into the system.
And Sean, please - lose the handles!
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includes all you need - easily available.
You might also like to try a contact enhancer, such as Walker's. WD40
is likely to be an insulator, so probably not the plan ;)
http://www.tweekgeek.com and don't spend too much...
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to the $$$ that you spend further up the chain... Welcome to
audiophilia :)
I would recommend that you get something considerably better than a
stock SB3 for that system - you'll need to mod and/or DAC it, or get a
Transporter. Have fun!
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adamslim's
a different mains cable to the
CD player.
Gary, you are clearly a lunatic of an even higher order than me. This
forum would be less without you, so please do post your comments on the
TP, modded and not. But perhaps in a new thread with an oddness warning
:)
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?
This could affect whether you get a balanced system now, or splurge out
on, say, the speakers.
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may not make a huge
difference. With 91dB/W, it'll be fine for a second system but not
loud, I think.
HTH
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don't know many that well.
Doubtless others will come in with some ideas too :)
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feet, tops, of cable.
Relax. You're making this way too complicated.
Seconded. If you can reliably call the difference on an A-B test on
the coax-coax vs coax-AES then I'll eat my SB3 :)
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Ruarks which are nice - I lived with a pair of
Equinoxes (spelling?) for a time, which were so gently authoritative,
lovely speaker.
Make sure you take some great music along, and have fun! Let us know
what you like there.
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, but threaten the high end, which a pair of Wharfedales will
never do. And if you don't like them, you can sell them at little or
no loss. This advice only applies if you truly want to join us audio
nutters though :)
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suppressed for
most readers. Slashdot is the best example here.
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not in the room. Come to the party and play.
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to their level.
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I posted a review earlier of my recent purchase - a Derek Shek d2 dac.
This cost £184 (about $320 or so) including delivery, and I'd recommend
it as a good improvement over the stock SB3.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30034
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in that respect).
To conclude, I felt that the d2 was a massive benefit to the SB3. It
makes it much more believable, albeit with a very different
presentation to the Shanling. Tragic opera sounds lovely - Puccini's
Suor Angelica really hits home.
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Robin Bowes;157157 Wrote:
God doesn't exist, so what does that say about audiophiles?
It says we are seeking a perfection that isn't there ;)
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troll, but sometimes they
do take something the wrong way, and get a bit excited. Some people
are more liable to do this than others.
- I respect the right of people to make an idiot of themselves.
Perhaps a slashdot-style scoring system rather than active moderation?
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any particular people for their
religious beliefs. Of course, criticising people's audio belief's what
it's all about, so that's just fine ;)
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give
more to charity than I spend on hifi, but when you take the music spend
into account, it's reversed). We audiophiles are a strange breed...
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, I am not convinced that the seller has to provide any
evidence if he is not actually forcing his product upon you. The
parallel with religion is good, isn't it?
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in the link).
As you spend more on your hifi... ;)
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Siduhe;157052 Wrote:
Congratulations. There was a moment when it all could have descended
into insults, exclamations marks and hyperbole. I've seen it happen on
a number of other forums with less cause.
Yeah but it sure as hell got off-topic. How was that then?
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placement is not a
good way to begin.
I agree. We live in a strange world where people prefer to spend
really large sums of hard-earned money, rather than spending the time
to try out important 'tweaks' like speaker placement, contact cleaning
and isolation. Odd.
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chinablues;156618 Wrote:
photon impingement on P-N junctions from outer space
You mean space aliens are making my hi-fi sound worse? Bummer!
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or
whatever their latest wheeze is
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tyler_durden;156803 Wrote:
Or maybe the people conducting the test actually changed something as
part of the test.
Schrodinger's cat is dead. No, wait, Schrodinger's cat is alive. No,
wait.
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my own cable
Was it fun to make?
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the same. Indeed,
it's possible that your DAC does this internally anyway. All you will
achieve is bloating of the size of your FLACs.
What you are getting is exactly the same as if you plugged a CD
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fun :)
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paint them white.
Sorry, probably no help at all :)
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; in a
balanced system this is not ideal, but if you have tiny speakers, it
could sound better...?
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OYEGRAL;153144 Wrote:
If you want to visit a good hi-fi show, no plasma screens, no surround,
just good ol' 2 channel, try the Heathrow High-Fidelity show, Park inn,
next March31/April 1 weekend
Seconded - and I'd be delighted to see Slim Devices there :)
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comments
;)
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liked
with valves (but maybe that's just me).
It would take quite a source to calm them down, methinks. What CD
player have you been using? You might do better by considering the
whole system; front end improvements may not be what is needed.
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; not sure but I'll eliminate it soon.
I am toying with getting a Derek Shek DAC (the d2), to see if this
helps. Any other ideas people come up with would be welcome!
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you seem to like, it might be worth looking at
the non-os DACs currently available - Derek Shek, Monica2 and mhdt, for
example. They are just £75-£200 ($150-350), so a bit of a no-risk buy
in the scheme of things. I'm thinking of getting one just to play :)
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just not as 'right'.
I did hear an upsampling dcS full monty system some time ago and it
sounded astonishing, though. It was a £20k CD system in a full system
worth well north of £100k all-in, so I suppose it should...
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, are all to obvious to
me!
Coffee: to quote, just click the quote button on the right. Unless you
are subscribing by email, in which case I don't know! You could always
put Quote and /Quote in square brackets. Try editing one of your
posts to see.
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opaqueice;151926 Wrote:
eats, shoots, and leaves - that was a panda, no?
Sigh... :)
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value for money envelope.
I need to have a system that I can enjoy for hours on end, not one that
sounds impressive in a five-minute A/B.
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it will be more expensive than you intended
:)
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Hey cool links. I got 11/12 'wrong', so am an overtone hearer. Fits
with my preferred instrument choice of violin and voice. Be
interesting to see how 'hearing' varies with equipment choice too.
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for the woofer would be
overkill, but that's a very broad brush approach.
Final bit of advice: listen to valve kit. My wife loves the look of my
system, which has allowed me licence to spend more than if I were buying
black boxes... In Japan, you're well served with such products.
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unhelpful.
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channel
and switching the kettle on. This might make a difference.
(Although I would expect that difference to make them closer when the
mains is better, if the reason for the difference is mains purity...)
Who knows, eh? :)
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tomjtx;150685 Wrote:
I've now made my position clear and don't feel a need to explain it
further.
I agree with your posts, but man you need to chill out a bit; there's
no point having perfect ears if your heart explodes before you're 40!
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or at the server though. I'll
do a sound comparison soon, once I have ripped in the CD too.
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you may have issues here in the UK.
Is just a bit of soldering not, well, fun...? ;)
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HTH
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sites for MLP, say. Get ready for
some 300MB files though ;)
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product
quality, but let's let time tell. I still feel very positive about
SD's products' futures.
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it must be separates - pre-power. Don't even think of using an AV
receiver.
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a decibel, so unlikely to be
audible.
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AV add-on, what a happy
day.
When the wife finds out how many amps, speakers and cables are going to
end up in the trash, she'll let you double your budget :D
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you to explain your objective
testing methodology, or is it a trade secret?
(This is a request not a dig - I think that the honesty that you have
shown throughout these forums is remarkable and really refreshing for
an audio company.)
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one for my nephew (to drive a pair of Snell Type
Es!), but everywhere in the world seems out of stock :(
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Kyle;146682 Wrote:
Check ebay.
Wow, they're so rare one shop is selling them for $100 (plus PP)!!!
I think I might give him mine and get a Charlize from
www.diyparadise.com - gives me something to do...
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be no
difference between SB3 and Transporter.
Tell us more about how your system is lacking and we may be able to
help more :)
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£100.
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for all, but it does sound really much better than my £1.5k
CD player, no contest). Just make sure that you spend a few quid on a
rooftop aerial.
Flamebait: better value than an SB3, I reckon ;)
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as the
difference between a sports car and a family estate. There is little
or no functionality difference - it play music, that's all (subject to
CD vs network, I suppose) - so your Ferrari/Toyota analogy is a bit
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Thanks guys, I'll look at getting one :)
One question: what impact would mains conditioning have on such a power
supply? I would have thought that it should be zero, as it itself is a
filter. Is that what people have found in practice? Or is my theory
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clean. I am most sceptical about spending on cables. I
just like lots of copper and minimal spin.
HTH
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they do
live relays it really is *much* better than CD. However, most radio is
just CD, so hasn't got much chance...
Frequency response is irrelevant - it's just a number ;)
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of grunt, probably solid state rather than
valve.
I think the passive attenuator is so you don't accidentally put full
power through your system. While the SB volume is digital (and hence
lossy), I don't think people have found too much wrong with it.
Adam
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Just do it, it is the route to audio happiness :)
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the results with some caution. However, I recognise that my
system of testing, by not being blind, cannot be scientific. Is there
a third way?
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We'll see if any Transporters turn up!
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CardinalFang;143566 Wrote:
Err.. this mod removes the headphone jack so you have to use it in a
home stereo or with a dedicated headphone amp - doesn't that make it
non-portable?
Indeed, so in fact the superior and cheaper version of this mod is,
err, the Squeezebox...
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highdudgeon;143651 Wrote:
Look at Dali, Harbeth, Quad, and Gradient for speakers with superb
linearity.
Although to calm him down again, I agree that you could do a lot worse
than any of these :D
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cables, some made myself, and
the situation with all of these has been that they appear to help, but
minimally, and the difference is small enough that it's not worth
changing back and forth dozens of times - life's too short.
Any thoughts?
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