[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter repair options?

2022-12-06 Thread gharris999
ports, etc, I'm thinking it's a problem with the original Transporter. Anyone think there might be a repair option for this? ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Repairs?

2017-01-09 Thread gharris999
Anyone know where one can get a Transporter repaired in 2017? The problem doesn't seem to be user-serviceable (like the fuse or wifi card), alas. gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Now where's that checkbook..

2015-02-08 Thread gharris999
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/09/perfect_your_mp3_listening_pleasure_with_this_bonkers_ethernet_cable/ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cat5 or not ?

2011-05-12 Thread gharris999
Depot. Worked great, though having cheap labor available to do the ditching helps. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] transporter balanced output?

2011-04-28 Thread gharris999
of the AT1502s drives a pair of Magnepan MG12s, the other one drives an old pair of MG3.5s. While this setup probably meets no one's definition of 'audiophile', it was cost effective. The AT1502s and the MG3.5s are all circa 1998 and still going strong. -- gharris999 ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Quality of digital outs from the Squeezebox

2011-02-05 Thread gharris999
diego;605305 Wrote: > Uh, no offense was meant... however, I use a brain switch off mod, > reduces load significantly and makes me happy :-) LOL! Let's have the script, please! -- gharris999 ---- gharris999'

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Good enough is the New Great

2009-12-10 Thread gharris999
Ugh. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/#g-2 -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Whole house Amp

2008-10-01 Thread gharris999
e in the MBR and one in the living room) to control everything. Oh yes, and a Boom for listening on the porch. -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://foru

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter V.43 with knob fix

2008-06-17 Thread gharris999
Yes, this seems to have completely fixed the excessive degaussing "burps" for me. Thanks! -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View th

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] xlr pinout?

2008-06-15 Thread gharris999
ables to using a Jensen ISO-MAX PC-2XR and have liked the results: transporter xlr to PC-2XR to ATI AT1502 power amp to Magnepan MG3.5s. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD red book de-emphasis?

2008-05-24 Thread gharris999
totally fail to detect pre-emphasis? Edit: Oops. Sorry. Should have read the whole thread. -- gharris999 -------- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.s

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FW42, and revisiting some FW40 bugs

2008-05-11 Thread gharris999
re upgrading to the nightly > builds? Did you try clearing your browser's cache? That usually fixes web interface problems for me without having to do any uninstalling, etc. I'm running today's 7.1 svn code with no major web interf

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FW42, and revisiting some FW40 bugs

2008-05-06 Thread gharris999
232, but I'd be happy to collect that, if it was, and if that would be helpful. BTW: I almost never actually use the knob on my transporter. It's still way-cool, though. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FW42, and revisiting some FW40 bugs

2008-05-06 Thread gharris999
onnected, networked via wire. SqueezeCenter: SqueezeCenter Version: 7.1 - TRUNK @ UNKNOWN - Red Hat - EN - utf8 Running from svn code, v19498 on a Fedora 8 box. Library: 99.% flacs with embedded cues. -- gharris999 ---- g

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] audio insanity

2008-04-16 Thread gharris999
Hey. Nice rugs! -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Not impressed with the Transporter

2008-04-14 Thread gharris999
performance. That same training is capable of absolutely killing the individual's chance of actually enjoying a recording. I'll take the ability to enjoy the joie de vivre of a performance over the ability to identify where

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Not impressed with the Transporter

2008-04-14 Thread gharris999
ingly out of tune from just intonation. -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Not impressed with the Transporter

2008-04-14 Thread gharris999
is where the black-art stuff comes in, and it's a matter of taste (and hearing) as to how flat to make the bass and how sharp to make the treble. In that case, you can be listening way up the list of partials to find a match or,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Not impressed with the Transporter

2008-04-13 Thread gharris999
ming out of the transporter disappoints you, then by all means take advantage of SlimDevices' return policy. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] firmware update for TP

2008-01-31 Thread gharris999
Did you try restarting the server / service? -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter paired with Squeezebox Controller

2008-01-30 Thread gharris999
t; > Have a look at your player to see what I mean "All Albums" > > MC That's exactly how I'm selecting my music these days with the web interface. It would be REAL nice to see that implemented in the jive ui. -- gharris999 -------

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Deutsche Grammophon

2008-01-30 Thread gharris999
How about a mailto link? -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best method & codec to get the 1's and 0's off the CD to the hard drive?

2008-01-20 Thread gharris999
f I hear a glitch in the rip, then I too fire up EAC. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42435 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!

2008-01-08 Thread gharris999
And yet, isn't most western classical music all about the creation, denial and ultimate fulfillment of expectation? (E.g. Mozart "works" for us because he is so clever at setting up multiple layers of "ahas!" for us.) To me, this poses something of a paradox. -- ghar

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!

2008-01-08 Thread gharris999
the performance totally enjoyable. So, for me, the lesson is not only about the empathy and emotional connection between the musician and the music, but also about the empathy and emotional connection between the listener and the musician, too. -- gharris999 ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!

2008-01-07 Thread gharris999
atas that I've got (John Ogdon, Ashkenazy, Håkon Austbø, Marta Deyanova, Ronald Smith, Jenny Lin) Ashkenazy's are the only recordings of the last 3 sonatas that I can stand to listen to at the moment. But I'll take your advice and try to pick up some more recordings by Kond

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!

2008-01-07 Thread gharris999
n the '60s, no? How about something a little more modern: Järvi, Mackerras, Zinman? That said, a quick SC search of my library for "Kondrashin" shows an obvious hole. Thanks for the pointer. -- gharris999 ghar

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!

2008-01-06 Thread gharris999
;m happy I have this CD. But I'm realizing that this is my only recording of this repertoire. Is there another recording you would recommend? -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Gimell Records offers Professional Quality Downloads

2007-12-23 Thread gharris999
This is Sunday-morning laziness talking: Is there an easy flac command line to perform that down sampling? -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Gimell Records offers Professional Quality Downloads

2007-12-22 Thread gharris999
wn catalog of recordings. It's got to be better for the artists than just giving their stuff away to Naxos. What I'd really like to see, I suppose, would be a distribution clearing-house (online, retail, download) for all the hundreds of classical artists and ensemble

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Gimell Records offers Professional Quality Downloads

2007-12-21 Thread gharris999
OK, I've talked myself into giving it a try. I'm downloading the "Allegri's Miserere & Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli" at Studio Master Pro FLAC 24bit 96kHz right now. -- gharris999 -----

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Gimell Records offers Professional Quality Downloads

2007-12-21 Thread gharris999
icult for me to image you lowering your prices given the state of the USD. We're already getting a discount. -- gharris999 -------- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this th

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: FF or RW using FLAC?

2006-12-20 Thread gharris999
PhilNYC is right on this. If your flac file contains more than one track (i.e. the flac file contains a cuesheet) then your flac gets transcoded "flac to flac" by slimserver and "intra-track" FF && RW is not

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: CDs burned from FLAC not working properly

2006-12-16 Thread gharris999
Burrrn works perfectly for me: http://www.burrrn.net/ ...and, it's free! -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: 'Wake On Audio' amplifier

2006-10-03 Thread gharris999
ailable these are now, though. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Sonic+Impact+T-Amp&hl=en&btnG=Search+Froogle -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thr

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter balance outputs; some questions

2006-09-30 Thread gharris999
7;m using it now to control my Transporter from a couple of SB3s. Works great! -- gharris999 -------- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.sli

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-29 Thread gharris999
Am I missing something? Does iTunes support FLAC now? Or are you guys talking about embedded cover art for ALAC files? -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-29 Thread gharris999
e. We'll see if some kind soul takes pity on us. -- gharris999 -------- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdev

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-29 Thread gharris999
The sources for the modified MetaFlac are available at the HydrogenAudio link above. I think it ought to be pretty straight forward to compile a mac version. Also, the souce to the base64 encoding utility is available at the gharris999 link above. Again, I think that code is pretty portable

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-29 Thread gharris999
[EMAIL PROTECTED];140485 Wrote: > Gharris999, how do you do this embedding trick, again?[/color] Slimserver understands jpgs embedded into FLACs in a COVERART tag if they are base64 encoded. About a year ago, Aurorix, a participant on the HydrogenAudio forums, wrote a modification to MetaF

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-27 Thread gharris999
se too. It's sisyphusian, man. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27946 ___

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-27 Thread gharris999
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-27 Thread gharris999
Will do. The UPS tracking page tells me that my Transporter is "OUT FOR DELIVERY" right now. -- gharris999 ---- gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View th

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter analog out questions

2006-09-26 Thread gharris999
e seen wire the XLR pins 1 (ground) and 3 (-audio) to the sleeve on the RCA connector. However, my DAC1 manual recommends just leaving pin 3 unconnected to avoid "very high levels of distortion." What is the prefered method for the Tran

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Using Transporter with DVD-A, SACD, HD DVD, Blu-Ray, etc

2006-09-18 Thread gharris999
e to pick up a not too expensive SACD player (e.g. Marantz SA8260 or Denon DVD-2910) and run its digital out into the Transporter's digital in? If I eliminate my pre-amp by going straight to the amp from the Transporter, can the Transporter, in effect, be used as a DAC and pre-amp for the SA

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: piano solos

2006-01-31 Thread gharris999
http://tinyurl.com/9h3l9 -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone using a Pre-Amp with their External DACs?

2006-01-19 Thread gharris999
lanced XLR analog ouputs on the DAC1 simultaneously? I have two amps (ATI 1502s) that I want to drive. For now, I'll keep the pre-amp in place as a simple way to compare and contrast the SB's internal DAC vs. the DAC1 vs. a modified Art DI/O. -- gharris999 ----

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice on sound quality

2005-09-30 Thread gharris999
$ than that $1000 DAC. -- gharris999 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice on sound quality

2005-09-29 Thread gharris999
ART DI/O DAC. So far, it’s hard to qualify the difference between the ART and the internal DAC in the SB2. I’m very happy listening to the SB2 analogue out. -- gharris999 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http