That isn't the sort of thing that got him banned.
_Please_ just stop feeding the trolls.
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Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
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nake oil.
Very true.
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Mnyb;693940 Wrote:
>
>
> In the meantime have a blackbody :)
>
> http://www.lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html
Wow. That is the most impressive professional looking bullshit I've
ever seen. They really have perfected the art of selling snake oil.
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andynormancx
Yes,
were
> identical!!
>
Pathetic. You could at least have included a leg via an RFC 1149 link
!
;)
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No one here has claimed everything expensive is a con. What has been
claimed is that asking for lots of money to polish your ones and zeros
so they are more shiny is a con.
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nsport ?
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richieleo;691524 Wrote:
> HmmI couldn't find that but I will look again... and no..I am not
> sure how to start a command window on a mac. :(
Just launch the Terminal application, easiest way it to hit cmd-space
and then start typing the word terminal.
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Yes, i
d
have achieved much the same result.
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h was modded or not for each test) ? If you didn't then it
isn't a great test, as it _could_ be that the two Touches sounded
audibly different (in a blinded test) _before_ any modding.
Apologies if that is what you actually did ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them
y be very
dogmatic about.
On this particular issue you are just wrong, very wrong.
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The very fruitiest of fruit cakes :(
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r was running.
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m/work.
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re you actually using AccurateRip, as advised, to make sure you are
getting 100% accurate rips ?
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
andynormancx&
Make sure you have got AccurateRip setup and working in EAC and you are
using discs in the AccurateRip database.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM
What is a Transporter2 ? As far as I am aware there has only ever been
one Transporter (discounting the Transporter SE that is just the same
with the knob removed).
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
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The SE is simply a normal Transporter without the expensive knob on the
front.
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has or will destroy musicjust what's
left of the record business."
Idiot, of the highest order.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
andynorma
magiccarpetride;626450 Wrote:
>
> So let's hear it from the Audiophile Assholes.
You're such a nice chap aren't you.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What
ved in
transmitting TCP/IP network packets from the server to the player.
The server sends the packets, the player receives them and sticks them
a buffer and then plays them out whenever it feels like. Entirely
asynchronous and jitter free.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of the
whoosh;620759 Wrote:
> Agreed 100% with firedog. This guy is definitely running the site as a
> joke.
You haven't watched enough of his YouTube videos then ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID
Phil Leigh;620744 Wrote:
> Total nutjob...
I wouldn't recommend visiting his "hidden" forum.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
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andy
I think a viewing of his YouTube channels demonstrates that it isn't a
piss take, as much as it is the output of a troubled mind.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LebakTFark
http://www.youtube.com/user/Patrick821
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. Wha
king between your NAS and the
player, zero. That article you linked to is complete nonsense.
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abled.
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ne on the night was
particularly good.
I wish I could say the same for his support act. It was Sheryl Crow,
who was truly awful. Shame, as I quite like a couple of her albums.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF
itor (assuming
DVI). It can in no way be involved with making your two images
appearing different. If they are different then it is because the Mac
is sending different 1s and 0s to the screen for each image.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SA
cess. Take the
screenshot, copy and paste the two different displays of the image into
their own Photoshop documents, save them as PNGs. As long as resulting
files are identical then you know that the two displays of the images
were the same.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes,
analogue conversion. If there is a difference then it is likely down to
the two apps disagreeing over color profiles, all of which is happening
in 1s and 0s in the digital domain.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze
amps. You do realise
there isn't any magic involved don't you ?
Either there is a real difference in the output of the amps and thus
the sound, which would then be measurable (either by listening to the
speakers or sampling the electrical output of the amps) or there isn't.
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perceived a difference ?
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s
unfoolable, double blind tests confuse my ears" and the "I can measure
everything" camps are so diametrically opposed in their "beliefs". And
yes, I exaggerated those descriptions for comic effect.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, S
-res to red book, you
were comparing two different masters.
Do you still not understand that ?
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andynormancx'
I've never seen so many pointless analogies used in a single thread
before without also involving a descent to Godwin's law ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID A
t get a measurable difference with a battery as the PSU,
then you aren't going to get a measurable difference with any fancy
PSU.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
-
the bus between the network cards and the CPU ? Then with less data
being transferred with FLAC it could be FLAC that sounds "better" than
WAV ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as we
t think anyone has stated that
they believe it is impossible that the different load of decoding FLAC
-could- somehow introduce some extra noise.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
Funny, but a flawed analogy. A PDF of a Word document is not lossless in
the same way a FLAC is compared to the original WAVE data. A Word doc
contains all sorts of data that doesn't make it into the PDF version.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well.
tion they manage. It is not a comparison to see how they sound
compared to each other, as it is TRIVIALLY easy to check that they all
decode to EXACTLY the same WAV data as they were supplied with to
encode.
What do you mean by "on the same website flac files are converted to
wav as an approximatio
ng. By using replay gain you
> can keep your accurate ripped file, and just add tag information about
> replay gain(if you use flac). This is what I now prefer, but let your
> EARS make the decision.
>
ReplayGain can in no way reverse any clipping that is present in your
flac.
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an
mswlogo;545236 Wrote:
> Meridian G68 > DSP6000, DSP5500HC, DSP5000
Given that the DSP6000, DSP5500HC and DSP5000 appear to have purely
digital inputs, how can the volume adjustments made by the G68 be
anything else that done digitally ?
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of the
I'm still eager to hear what "Digital Signal Processing Analog Volume"
means.
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uot;DSP Analog Volume" ?!? DSP = Digital
> Signal Processing, surely ?
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mswlogo;542736 Wrote:
>
> You spent too much, so you must be idiot?
>
That isn't what I said at all. There are plenty of very bright people
who lose all sense of judgement when it comes to expensive hi-fi.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as
mswlogo;542705 Wrote:
> This is on $10K to $300K systems.
>
I'm afraid I am naturally suspicious of the judgement of anyone who has
spent $300K on a hifi setup.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID
mswlogo;542703 Wrote:
>
> But it's not over compressed and the clipping is essentially non
> existent.
By which you mean the clipping exists.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SA
mswlogo;542703 Wrote:
>
> But it's not over compressed and the clipping is essentially non
> existent.
By which you mean the clipping exists.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SA
Curiously he appears to be having the same conversation elsewhere...
http://www.meridianunplugged.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=117190#Post117190
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF
acking system
itself.
Chris's comment was simply to explain that he had changed the Product
type to "SB Transporter" for you.
So don't worry, your bug is correctly logged, you need to wait for
someone to confirm it.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSq
https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/483
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rences that don't really exist in a
meaningful way.
That is what the clocks need to be synced for any meaningful
measurements.
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-
ck clearly show that any differences been
the WAV/FLAC playback, even if they exist at all, are incredibly,
incredibly tiny. But no, no one is ever going to measure, to the level
that it seems you would find acceptable that they are identical.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, So
drift issue with our ears/brains so the measured
difference when the clocks aren't synced do _not_ prove that there is an
audible difference.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well.
, it would be less CPU usage on the server.
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Louishlomador;484802 Wrote:
> Lets also not forget that flat doesn't give you the option to rip music
> in 24bit format, while wav does, in 16bit or 24bit, depending on the rip
> sofware.
Wrong.
- FLAC files can be 24 bit
- FLAC doesn't rip anything, FLAC is a file format
There is no difference in sound quality between wired and wireless.
Homeplug is typically more reliable than wireless, if you don't mind
the extra cost and want reliability then go for it.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF
inging...
Robin Bowes;380831 Wrote:
>
> This is soul:
>
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlQVhMAbwg
>
...now we're talking, that is singing, IMHO at least ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Ye
I trust my ears fine. Unfortunately my ears are connected to my brain
and it has been shown time and time again that you just can't trust the
human brain to not lie to you in the most inconvenient and convincing
way.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as
This forum never fails to put a smile on my face.
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ved audio quality.
Not forgetting of course that issue with Apple Lossless files where the
replayrain was being applied twice, thus making them sound even less
like the WAV files they were compared to.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, Sof
nopoly and Sky TV
(who are the only satellite provider) have their own non-Tivo set top
box. Sky do not allow anyone else to develop a decoder for their
propriety encryption.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I
ry track they play.
To know that you are ripping 100% accurately, at the moment that means
using EAC + AccurateRip or dBPowerAmp.
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Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
---
we've made to the clocks, power
supplies and analogue outputs, we've also carefully re-designed the
S/PDIF digital output driver, using a transformer-coupled balanced
output circuit."
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Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes,
BigTony;319555 Wrote:
> My SB3 is wireless, can't really wire it for anything bar testig.
>
Have you at least wired it up to test that the sibilance is there ?
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID
It is possible that you settings are slightly different on your new
install. Perhaps you how have automatic volume turned on ? (which would
make music play back louder and therefore sound better)
Or maybe you accidentally had bitrate limiting turned on before ?
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andynormancx
Yes, it will
ripper either yet. Yes I am using the latest
version with the 4 data sources, but I still have to fix up some discs
(though I rarely have to type any titles/artists in myself, just
overriding for some tracks which meta data source is used).
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, So
ts multiple tagging sources are far more
reliable than anything else I have used, they do still need some manual
cleaning up on some discs.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
e
go. I have dbPowerAmp set up so that it rips flacs into one folder, hi
bit rate MP3s into another folder and low bit rate MP3s for my phone
into a third folder.
All completely automatic once it is setup.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID
Themis;316268 Wrote:
>
> - The dac part of all that is about -let's say- 50-70 bucks.
>
> We get a -pretty- good 70$ dac. Did I get it all wrong ? :p
>
I think you'll find that the actual DAC in the SB2/3 cost something
closer to a couple of dollars, not seventy do
limdevices.com/index.php/HardwareComparison
It says that SB2 and later decode "MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA (except
WMA Lossless), AIFF, WAV".
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. W
Phil Leigh;316026 Wrote:
> Apple Aiff is not native to the SB - it's transcoded using MOV123 (or
> FAAD if you have installed that).
>
My "File Types" screen in SC says that AIFF is native.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. W
Amauta;314669 Wrote:
> I was more thinking of putting in some resistors in the line out. But do
> these affect the sound quality?
You'd better hope not, your DAC has got lots of them in it ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID
Is it possible that you at least partly prefer the sound of your
external DAC precisely because it has a higher volume output compared
to the SB DAC ? It wouldn't be the first time increased volume was
perceived as increased audio quality.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them
scanner
- chosen album starts playing on SB
The best of both worlds. Anyway, it was a flippant, humorous comment
not really intended to be taken seriously*...
* though no doubt some geek out there has already implemented it ;)
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze
try shutting down the SqueezeCenter server and
> going back to CDs for a week or two. You might be surprised to find
> that your listening habits, even (dare I say it) your satisfaction
> level, may be different.)
Nothing that a bar code scanner + database + a quick bit of code
couldn
Don't forget that the most expensive part of the SB3 is the screen and
the TP has two of them. Also, that knob must be a pricey bit of kit.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I
Nonreality;311680 Wrote:
> *sits back and shares popcorn with andynormancx*
You're welcome, could you pass the Coke please ?
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL
has enough CPU power to transcode their MP3s to
FLACs on the fly.
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darrenyeats;311574 Wrote:
>
> Going further, perhaps there are no major differences and pyschology
> alone is causing you to hear a difference, given especially that the
> listener is on a different floor.
>
*sits back and opens popcorn*
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, a
ause
the x86 version of madplay doesn't have the bug. So what would be the
point ?
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
andynormancx's Profi
coding options, though typically to
transcode to MP3. Is it possible to get it to transcode from MP3 to
FLAC ? At least then those few people who are really affected (MP3
users, with very good amps and music with quiet passages) could have an
easy work-around without having to convert all their MP3
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