[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Am I the only person who still wants a digital only Transporter

2006-11-07 Thread reeve_mike
the knob and buttons, but with the dual displays. And there's: May be I want to sync the source to a system wordclock (which I do) ... And add to the wish list: One without the handles :-O -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Suggestions for an up-to-date, available source for a linear PS

2006-11-01 Thread reeve_mike
low-power valves amps (QUAD). I don't find one better than the other, they are simply (very enjoyably) different ... [There is, of course, a Squeezebox amongst the sources in both systems :-)] Mike -- reeve_mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter, powering down unused bits of.

2006-10-02 Thread reeve_mike
factor, etc. ... Mike -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28198

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Squeezebox Class D!

2006-09-22 Thread reeve_mike
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-26 Thread reeve_mike
think that we are in serious agreement [even if we nit pick on a few details :-)]! -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread reeve_mike
introduced: http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/71654447AD1896_a.pdf Although, the audibility of such errors (or their side-effects) is of course another debate ... :-O -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread reeve_mike
an asynchronous sample rate converter (like the AD1896) to do the upsampling ... [Only a very few companies, such as dcs Wadia, implement their own upsampler ...] -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread reeve_mike
out the side remark in parenthesis ...] P Floding;130992 Wrote: IMHO any reasonable upsampling should be done in exact multiples of the original sample rate. Again, agreed! -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread reeve_mike
yields ... But are such errors audible (either directly or via side effects) ...? -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread reeve_mike
state of psycho-acoustics) for leading us to 20Hz-20KHz ... -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26685

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread reeve_mike
Pat Farrell;131153 Wrote: reeve_mike wrote: What I was trying to contribute was that the samples on the CD do not faithfully represent the musical waveform, they only represent a version of it filtered at 20.5KHz, which seemed to be relevant at the time but now I can't remember why

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: word clock output

2006-08-10 Thread reeve_mike
; you would use a Big Ben (or similar) to provide the master clock. If the DAC has a word clock output (e.g. dcs Elgar or some such) then you connect this to the word clock input of your source (and vice versa). Mike -- reeve_mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 + high end DAC versus high end CD Player?

2006-06-24 Thread reeve_mike
above to sync them to my dcs Purcell-Elgar-Verona stack, I have simply been able to plug each successive generation of SB into my modified Digital Lens ... -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 + high end DAC versus high end CD Player?

2006-06-19 Thread reeve_mike
frustrating is that the Purcell only has one AES input] CarlOtto Wrote: I have had thoughts of selling the Verdi I have close to 500 SACDs so I am keeping mine :-) Mike -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 + high end DAC versus high end CD Player?

2006-06-12 Thread reeve_mike
these feed a dcs Elgar+ via a dcs Purcell upsampler. The whole replay chain is synch'ed via a dcs Verona clock (the SB path is modified to include a word clock input). If I have ripped a CD I play it via the SB; not the Verdi, why would I ...? -- reeve_mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 + high end DAC versus high end CD Player?

2006-06-12 Thread reeve_mike
hand the causes of jitter and on the other hand the impact of the jitter on the audio signal ... Mike -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=995 View this thread: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB3 + high end DAC versus high end CD Player?

2006-06-12 Thread reeve_mike
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Active speakers for a large room to replace Quads

2006-04-21 Thread reeve_mike
... :-( [Clearly a biased opinion, but what else could be expected from the owner of both ESL 63s 989s (as well as BW Nautilus) - and, despite that, a still married one!] Mike -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB-3 and external DAC

2006-03-17 Thread reeve_mike
it to generate a 256x superclock in place of the SB's oscillator) the folks at http://www.db-system.ms/ do a word clock input for the SB - do a search on the posts of Michel Fombellida. Mike -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Power supply upgrade

2006-03-17 Thread reeve_mike
tomsi42 Wrote: Note that the PSU is heavily filtered, multiply rectified - this is quite different from the stock SB powersupply ... Which is why I (like you I presume) have linears on my SBs :-) -- reeve_mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB-3 and external DAC

2006-03-17 Thread reeve_mike
reeve_mike Wrote: If you don't want to do your own word clock mod [e.g. a simple way is to take an Apogee Big Ben and use it to generate a 256x superclock (synced from the dcs stack) in place of the SB's oscillator] And of course, if you are willing to use the SB's oscillator, you can use

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone using Quad 99 CDP with SB?

2006-02-20 Thread reeve_mike
etc. and I find its sound non-fatiguing over extended periods. I previously used a Musical Fiedlity X-DAC V3 in this system but the convenience of an integrated CD transport volume control made me switch to the QUAD DAC ... Mike -- reeve_mike

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone using Quad 99 CDP with SB?

2006-02-18 Thread reeve_mike
Yes - This is one of my current set-ups [I have 3 SBs :-)], and it works sounds just fine. And since the CDP has a built in analog volume control I drive the power amp (QUAD 909) directly from the CDP. Mike -- reeve_mike