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shielding on a digital transport's interface.
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and the vast majority of users are more interested in maintaining an
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stock and modified
SBs to a high end transport this past weekend. All of them preferred
the transport.
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files be indistinguible from class A DAC?
What transport/digital source are you comparing it to?
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need to have word clock inputs installed on your
TCS 2.2XP and sync the whole thing to an iClock or something like it
to get the full benefit.
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at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TacTAudioUsersGroup/.
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needs one? Are you buying
a Transporter to use it as a transport?
I don't have DSL/Cable, so I have no interest in Internet radio or
creating playlists.
I don't have a coach in my listening room, and I don't mind getting
up to change the CDs in my transports or the LP on the TT.
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of
prowling through forums from which you've been kicked off and
periodically assailing forum members and owners with laughable vitriol.
George- I asked some simple question and you respond with a personal
attack.
I gave the SB to my son. He's an MP3 user and loves it.
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for
the logically impaired.
George -
I check this forum for updates that might yield higher performance, and
new product developments.
I read your posts when I need a good laugh.
PS- thanks for the feedback.
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playlists, because I have no want or need for them.
It has nothing to do with understanding how to set up a router, so your
assumptions were wrong.
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to give a reasonable reading of what I wrote?
Instead of accepting that you're wrong, now you feel the need
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you so much for ruining this thread.
Finally, I will not admit myself to be wrong simply because I don't
think that I am.
Once again, your assumptions were wrong.
If you can't admit it, that's your problem.
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Which ones? The ones about the English language?
You're the one that made the assumptions, so you figure it out.
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, have you tested the Transporter against reference
quality transports or DAC?
PS- JA, also raved about the $129.00 Apple Airport Express.
I'll bet he think it sounds just as good as an SB.
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digital optical out jitter:
~892ps
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on this forum that could see What could be lacking?
and make recommendations to mod/upgrade it's performance.
Since you've owned lots of high end equipment, I'm sure you know, there
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exactly what it looks like.
Are you using the Vitec 16Z5752? If so, it appears to be exactly the
same as the PE65612 made in Mexico 15 years ago.
Look forward to your screen shots.
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and eliminate the need for a
PC and SB.
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sbjaerum Wrote:
Just got my digital September issue of Stereophile.
It has the review of Squeezebox. JA concludes 'Very highly
recommended'. Well done!
Did JA do jitter measurements?
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the typical midbass room suck
out between 100-200hz, and allows you to cut the peaks, rather than
boost the dips.
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SD allowed these comments to be posted.
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. - cliveb
I'm still waiting for cliveb to explain what magic EAC is going to
perform if you've recorded a signal with ECCs.
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is probably going to contain ECCs.
If cliveb now runs this CDR through EAC, I'd like to know what
magic EAC is going to perform to recover the data that the CDP
couldn't read.
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Phil Leigh Wrote:
...but I have God (and physics) on my side...
Do you use holy water to clean your CDs?
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cliveb-
What magic is EAC going to do if you've recorded a signal with error
concealment codes?
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snarlydwarf Wrote:
ECC is Error Correction Code, not concealment.
Mahalo for the correction. My question still for cliveb,
what magic is EAC going to do if you've recorded a signal with error
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over at stereotimes.com and tell him to stop giving Stereo
Times 2006 Most Wanted Components awards to products that you feel
are misleading the public.
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if money was no object what music server would you buy? is olive any
good? what others would you recommend.
Here's the best:
http://www.memoryplayer.info/Memory%20Player%20Home%20page.htm
See stereotimes.com for more info.
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in their systems, found they made more of an improvement
between a digital source like the SB and their RCS, than between the
RCS and their DAC or digital amps.
After upgrading their PSUs many of these people eliminated these jitter
reduction units.
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CD player or
transport. He's planning to show it at the Rocky Mountain Audio
Fest(10/20/06).
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your Lavry.
Here's a great unit that will do the job for you:
http://www.salvagetech.com/products.asp?pid=106
It's built and sounds better than the Power One/Condors.
Better pick one up fast before jabberwockie buys them all...LOL.
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frame off the shelf linears pick up a 5V Condor Medical Linear. Digikey
# 271-1002-ND, cost $53.89. Much better
unit than the Power One.
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the SMPS or
linear.
I'm sure the stock supply has more than enough current to run the SB.
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a piece of
glass that most of us, in a blind A/B X/Y test wouldn't ever pick), or
original art, or whatever - without comment!
Strange ...
Great post!
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it will be excellent.
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mlihl Wrote:
Nice one! How much does it cost?
Regards,
Mike
Mike-
I don't know if Anthony has finalized the price yet, he just sent me
the specs/picture. You can contact him at Mauimods.com, if you're
interested.
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an SB source should have speaker and amp and
DAC and cable manufacturers salivating.
Hopefully a good review from JA will encourage other companies to start
developing PC/HD based music servers. All those big name
DVD HD recorders are music servers waiting to happen.
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, unless you have
someone modify the SB to add a AES/EBU output.
For best sound quality, I'd recommend the coax(RCA) output.
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to the sound of the
CD on the Ayre used as a transport, a better sense of extended low
frequencies.
In fairness to the SB, he had the Ayre connected with coax and
the SB with Toslink. Hopefully during his testing, he'll try more
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transports and CDPs that cost much less
than $6K, including the Ayre CX-7e which sound better than the
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had with the best
transport/DAC combo out there, to arrived at his guess.
Please tell me how I could have ask this in a professional and
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Mauidan, you caught me! I have never listened listened to a $6000 CD
player in my system. I haven't even listened to $1000 players or DAC's.
That's what you wanted to hear me say, right? I'm not sure why that
makes YOU feel better, but I certainly couldn't care any less
Ayre C-5xe is not a transport. I don't know anyone(other than a
reviewer) that buys a $6K CDP and uses it as a transport. There are
lots of good transports and DACs both new and used for a lot less.
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if these
transport/DAC combos were link to a central clock, what type of digital
connection/cable was used, were any of the components modified and
finally, what system was used to evaluate their performance.
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not the kind to
apologize.
Apology?
After you send me foul mouth private emails and belittle my work, which
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wished
I'd done it long before, before I'd invested so much in Shunyata
devices; and of course since he seems to share my enthusiasm for
Audience AU24 interconnects he must be a man of discernment :-).
Jeff,
Mahalo for your kind words.
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studio montors; they are very expensive
and are regarded as some of the best speakers anywhere, at any price,
speakers that's makes the SB3 sound good as the best transports/DAC
combos (ie- EMM Labs, Esoteric, Theta, ML, Wadia...etc).
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I thought the discussion was quite civil.. :-)
Once again, I agree.
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In stock systems like yours, I'm sure Toslinks help.
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at that).
Maybe the Lavry was defective, or maybe there are other colorations in
your system making it hard to notice the external DAC differences.
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BNC SPDIF to my DAC, under control of a master clock from my DAC.
Both clock and SPDIF should be coax BNC.
Contact:
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speakers..
Anyway, I'm not really in modding and find that most things out there
are expensive panaceas. QUOTE]
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the BB is no longer needed.
Assuming you're using an external DAC, if you hear no difference
feeding the DAC via the SB3's Toslink output verses the RCA output,
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. There are not a lot of 24/96 sources in the
commercial sector. Pity, though.
There's lots of 24/96 24/192 sources if you transfer an LP
collection to digital or do your own recordings.
Did you take those inside pictures of Lavry Black yet?
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came from the digital
interface.
My 14 year old CAL Delta transport was measure by Sterophile to have 50
pS of jitter.
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M3Rocket Wrote:
Yeah--just be careful clicking on the first Google result for tact
forum... :O
Sorry, here's the source of the jitter measurements:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TacTHackers/
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to easily add storage, open source, and the community here to
help idiots like me.
Interesting. Spoke to a friend today who's a computer specialist, and
he sent back the SB3 and ordered the cambridge.
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never heard a low jitter hiend system.
What system(s)are your SBs connect to?
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pfarrell Wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 19:01 -0800, mauidan wrote:
If you're happy with the sound you're getting from the SB, then
don't worry about jitter levels.
Perhaps you've never heard a low jitter hiend system.
What system(s)are your SBs connect to?
I'm not worried about
, you are wrong.
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, if the
frequency used is high enough, the switching PSU can act as a radio
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Mahalo for the kind words about the power supplies.
Jeff, wait till you hear the Aberdeen 2150 and the other RCS mods.
Anthony also has a BB on his bench, so I'm sure there'll be upgrades
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suggest SB2 users with an external DAC, try
feeding the SB2's digital signal thru a Genesis Digital Lens for
buffering/jitter reduction. The DL also converts the SPDIF to AES/EBU
for use with pro DACs. ;-) Dan
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