SlimChances wrote:
> Who knew one doesn't have to spend 10s of thousands on audio equipment,
> just turn off the lightsIt's not like What Hifi to recommend blind tests
> [emoji1787]
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vco1 wrote:
> I'm plaanning on going the same route: Hifiberry Digi2 (Pro) + DSP
> Add-on foor room correction. But your post confuses me a bit if it's
> working fine with Squeezeplayer or not. Especially since you mention
> "Also, their (experimental) room correction feature didn't work for me.
matka wrote:
> I called Magnepan Technical Support (no wait time...) and they assured
> me that since speakers are 40 feet away form the microwave that it can't
> be magnetic interference.
> This leaves the power quality to the amp (temporary Denon receiver as
> I'm under renovations) that is dr
matka wrote:
> I've purchased my first electrostatic speakers, Maggies LRS
> https://www.magnepan.com/model_lrs. Very happy with the purchase.
>
> I have them in a temporary location in an open area that includes a
> large living room and a kitchen
>
> I noticed that the speakers starts to dis
d6jg wrote:
> Thats exactly what I use for day to day cleaning.
>
> One of these or similar to check downforce -
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoteck-Digital-Turntable-Backlight-Cartridge-Jet-Jet-Black/dp/B071G5QD2V/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=cartridge+downforce+scale&qid=1630944227&sr=8-1
I think Boris Johnson wrote the washing instructions for the microfiber
cloths that come with Vinylclear [emoji1787][image:
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Paul Webster wrote:
> Wow .. current model (PRC4i) over £2k
> https://loricraftaudio.co.uk/products/It's also enormous.
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d6jg wrote:
> We are in Audiophiles aren't we?
>
> Just checking because once we start getting into discussing "vinyl" we
> do open that enormous can of worms that is Hi-Fi.
>
> Suffice to say that in my experience when digitising vinyl (I have done
> about 1,000 albums - some more than once)
Grumpy Bob wrote:
> Techmoan has a 'couple of videos in his YouTube stream'
> (https://www.youtube.com/c/Techmoan/search?query=cleaning%20vinyl) that
> try out a few methods for cleaning LPs. As far as I recall, none were
> particularly effective.
>
> RobertThat's encouraging then [emoji2]
Sen
Grumpy Bob wrote:
> I have a University lab with effectively unlimited deionised water which
> has worked well on the rare occasions I clean LPs...
>
> RobertIf I see it on my weekly shop I'll grab some.
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d6jg wrote:
> If you are digitising Vinyl to FLAC it definitely pays to clean your
> records properly first and also to check the set up of your turntable
> throroughly - one of those mini electronic scales is a very good
> purchase. It is surprising just how out your counterweight can often be.
doctor_big wrote:
> The Spin-Clean record bath is arguably the best bang for the buck.
>
> https://spinclean.com/
>
> And distilled water is cheap... Doesn't leave white spots.I think distilled
> water is only cheap across the pond. In the UK I think
we can probably get deionised water for aro
kappclark wrote:
> Ha Ha - Dawn dishwashing detergent did it for me, with a slow rinse with
> warm water, then onto the dish rackIf tap water was acceptable I would try
> that but everyone recommends
distilled/deionised.
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kappclark wrote:
> I have tried a damp Mr Clean Magic Eraser for the Stylus -- just enough
> coarseness... also the vinyl washing does work - I remember trying on a
> sacrificial Lawrence Welk LP - improved the sound (but not the music)What did
> you use to clean your vinyl? Probably not a mult
ian_heys wrote:
> I've just come back to vinyl after a 20 year break where I tried to
> obtain replacement CD's for my favourite Vinyl as well as collecting
> loads of new music.
>
> I had, in the past, recorded my vinyl to mp3 and aac before the days of
> flac and decreased storage cost/capaci
Grumpy Bob wrote:
> What's in the cleaning wipe? Presumably some solvents/detergents? Are
> 'these' (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/268043953) the
> wipes?
>
> I once bought several box sets of old 1950s vinyl operas from an Oxfam
> shop. I decided they needed a bit of a cleanu
ian_heys wrote:
> I've just come back to vinyl after a 20 year break where I tried to
> obtain replacement CD's for my favourite Vinyl as well as collecting
> loads of new music.
>
> I had, in the past, recorded my vinyl to mp3 and aac before the days of
> flac and decreased storage cost/capaci
I think I've just had a bit of an epiphany [emoji3]. All the years I
have had LP records I always blamed a dodgy sounding one on a worn
stylus. The only cleaning I did was a carbon fibre brush before playing.
I was fed up with sibilance and a bit of surface noise on a Sting album
so thought I ha
P Nelson wrote:
> To me, this look like a solution looking for a problem.
>
> Did you see the US$100 125V 20 amp outlet!
> https://shunyata.com/products/accessories/sr-z1-outlets/
>
> Zooming in on the photo it is made by Hubbell. However, it does look a
> little different than this one:
>
WTF. I must get one of these [emoji1787]
https://shunyata.com/products/accessories/burn-in-adapter/
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d6jg wrote:
> BrilliantI had to Google it but I agree [emoji3]
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Grumpy Bob wrote:
> I think one of the drivers for MQA is harvesting licensing revenue at
> various stages of the MQA encoding/decoding process...
>
> RobertThat must be the only driver. Nothing else makes sense. Has anyone said
MQA is better than lossless?
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Man in a van wrote:
> I've not heard the MQA Radio Paradise stream but as the MQA process can
> be applied to Albums in a "batch process" I guess that this is done to
> the stream.
>
> Or, as Tidal is applying this "Batch Process" to all CD files it
> supplies, perhaps RP just uses that "conver
Jeff07971 wrote:
> I think with the advent of HiRes FLAC streaming MQA is a solution
> without a problemEven with CD quality FLAC streaming [emoji1787]
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d6jg wrote:
> Thats disappointing. I wont be getting an E30 then. That issue does
> not exist with my Khadas Tone Board nor with an Audioquest Dragonfly.
> Does anyone have a clue why the Topping cant react to sample rate
> changes when other USB Dacs can?The E30 works fine with a piCorePlayer
tank121 wrote:
> The E30 is arrived connected via the USB cable that came with it. One
> thing I've noticed that someone else mentioned, when the bit rate of the
> tracks change you have to cycle through the sources back to USB and the
> press mute and unmute.
>
> Do you know if it's the same w
Man in a van wrote:
> It's mpd v squeeze (or squeezelite)
>
> There's lots of stuff on't 'tinterweb :rolleyes:
>
> ronnieThere is loads of stuff but no reason. AudioDiffmaker sees a difference
but I have no idea why.
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> was it #4 ?:)
>
> ronnieIt certainly was [emoji3]. I am still non the wiser why Moode sounds
different to piCorePlayer.
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I tried using Right Mark Audio Analyzer to measure the frequency
response of my Pi-DAC source with some confusing results. I used a
Behringer UFO202 audio interface which is cheap but should do the job.
The first graph is a loopback test to show the response of the UFO202.
The second graph is Moo
DCtoDaylight wrote:
> Seems odd How did you do the file format conversion?See my last post. I
> thought both files were the same length and only the
sample rate was different but the 96kHz file was much shorter as I think
when RMAA generates the test files for each sampling frequency it us
slartibartfast wrote:
> I thought I would test Audio Diffmaker with a couple of test waveforms
> generated by Right Mark Audio Analyser. I generated
> File A=44.1kHz 16bit
> File B=96kHz 24 bit
> To compare them in Audio Diffmaker the format needs to be the same so I
> c
I thought I would test Audio Diffmaker with a couple of test waveforms
generated by Right Mark Audio Analyser. I generated
File A=44.1kHz 16bit
File B=96kHz 24 bit
To compare them in Audio Diffmaker the format needs to be the same so I
converted File A to 96kHz 24 bit.
When Audio Diffmaker calcu
Man in a van wrote:
> I will agree that there is a difference :)
>
> I have dallied with MoOde over a number of years and just this weekend I
> have started to set up a playback system as an internet radio.
>
> It's a faff to upgrade the urls for Radio France and the metadata is
> pants (I thi
Man in a van wrote:
> MoOde
>
> Audio information
> Input / Output
> Source http://icecast.radiofrance.fr/fip-hifi.aac
> Encoded at VBR compression
> Decoded to 16 bit, 48 kHz, Stereo, 181 kbps
> Output rate 16 bit, 48 kHz, Stereo, 1.536 Mbps
> Output mode ALSA Direct (hw)
> Output chain MPD ->
philippe_44 wrote:
> It might sound better in a sense that better can mean a lot of
> different things to different people :). A bit of signal processing and
> some equalization or even non linear transformation
That is what I can't be
> sure of. As far as I can tell all processing is
turned o
Man in a van wrote:
> I will agree that there is a difference :)
>
> I have dallied with MoOde over a number of years and just this weekend I
> have started to set up a playback system as an internet radio.
>
> It's a faff to upgrade the urls for Radio France and the metadata is
> pants (I thi
Another thread piqued my interest in Moode Audio for the Raspberry Pi.
Since I had a spare micro SD card I thought I would try it out. Now I
have a problem. I have a sneaking suspicion that MPD in Moode sounds
better than Squeezelite. I have no idea how this could be true and I
don't want it to b
Steve Agnew wrote:
> I've been enjoying one of these which looks like it would tick most of
> your boxes.
>
> https://heaven11audio.com/billie-stereo-intergrated-amplifier/?v=8e3eb2c69a18
>
> 35188
>
> They are currently out of stock but there is a waiting list on their web
> site.
>
> Cheer
zordaz wrote:
> Well, I'm afraid that only means that your are able to listen to the
> same stream with both normal equipment and with MQA equipment. In the
> former case you are listening to a 16/44 stream which simply is not
> lossless because of the MQA content is added to it. And as we now k
stosoorok wrote:
> Absolute waste of time. If you don't have the gear that is resolving
> enough (like in this thread, the commentators seem to have max 100-200
> bucks worth gear) of course it does not matter what you put into it. I
> have 3 different digital transports (NAA) at the moment (sim
philchillbill wrote:
> I think what they experienced was a -faster- system, not a SQ
> improvement. I was on a Synology DS916+ with 6TB WD Reds and switched to
> an Intel NUC7CJYH running Ubuntu with SSD and it's much snappier.
>
> My education won't allow me to even contemplate that there mig
Stratmangler wrote:
> Qobuz work with whatever the copyright holder submits, just like all the
> other streaming platforms.
> They're not the creators of the perceived issue.It does make a mockery of Hi
> Res content though.
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I bought an original West German AM+ CD of Even In The Quietest Moments
and checked the dynamic range using TT-DR offline and the first track of
my CD measures 13, while the 24/96 Hi Res from Qobuz measures 7. Not
even close.
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I am sure Hi Res content on Qobuz sounds great when the source material
is good. They (and others) have recently made available a Hi Res version
of "Even In The Quietest Moments" by Supertramp. You can read what the
Steve Hoffman forum make of it here.
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/super
Paul Webster wrote:
> screengrab
> 34190
>
> Perhaps ...
> Tannoy Canterbury
> 34191
>
> From
> https://auction.gorringes.co.uk/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=LJUNE15++139+&refno=10339460Estimate
> £200-300, sold for £4800, wow.
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cliveb wrote:
> Don't get me started on Virgin. I was with them at the previous house.
> The service itself was generally good, but when it came to giving them
> notice it was impossible to contact them. On hold on the phone for over
> an hour before giving up. On hold on their online chat for 1
P Nelson wrote:
> I found the quote above interesting.
>
> There are some people that can do exceptional things that most people
> cannot because of physical gift and training. We see it every four
> years at the Olympics. I do believe some people can actually hear the
> difference between a
cliveb wrote:
> I've just moved house and as a test of which ISP to go for decided to
> try calling their tech support numbers and see how quickly they
> answered. Zen picked up after a few seconds.
>
> In that time BT, Virgin or Sky would still be taking you through their
> initial menu option
ftlight wrote:
> One of the audiophile "testers" was switching ISPs, and determined that
> he could hear a difference in the sound depending on whether it came
> over the coax cable broadband connection of his old provider or the
> fiber optic connection of the new one.That's because he has an "
Zombie wrote:
> They pay because they can afford it. And the rest is expectation bias.
> Who says a person spending thousands on a switch is an "audiophile" and
> can hear a difference? I think most of them just have too much money.Buying
> the switch makes them an audiophile [emoji3]
Sent fro
chill wrote:
> aka 'buy wiring'.Do "Audiophiles" still think it makes a difference?
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> Might it be an idea to run TWO identical USB cables between the pi and
> the DAC and send an inverted digital signal along one of them so that a
> differential path like with XLR could be recreated? The pi has multiple
> USB sockets and there must be DACs with more than on
Fahzz wrote:
> I was hoping the cable debates would never find their way to this forum.
> This topic seems to bring out the worst in people, and quickly.
>
> OP: you might want to look at the audio hardware section on The Steve
> Hoffman Music Forums and also the Audio Science Review forum, as
Man in a van wrote:
> I would say Supra is one of the better commercial ones; from their
> website
>
>
>
>
> I have some oof the usb2 cable and its fine, I also have some of their
> speaker cable which I still use (It's, at least ,25 years old :))
>
> ronnie
My speaker cable is QED 79 str
Fahzz wrote:
> I was hoping the cable debates would never find their way to this forum.
> This topic seems to bring out the worst in people, and quickly.
>
> OP: you might want to look at the audio hardware section on The Steve
> Hoffman Music Forums and also the Audio Science Review forum, as
chill wrote:
> Some evidence that they don't:
> http://archimago.blogspot.com/2013/04/measurements-usb-cables-for-dacs.htmlSurely
> John Darko can't be wrong [emoji1787]
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slartibart
Is there any evidence at all that USB cables make a difference? John
Darko seems convinced even going as far as saying the idea that they all
sound the same is some kind of conspiracy theory.
https://darko.audio/2017/07/dont-worry-usb-happy/
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rootee wrote:
> I cannot find reference that shows what bit-rates/sample-rates
> _SB_Radio_'s can handle, does anyone know or can point me to a
> reference?
>
> Also, I haven't been able to stream anything higher 16-bit/44kHz FLAC on
> Qobuz (to SB Radio's).Max 24 bit 48kHz.
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garym wrote:
> Amen.Avoid anything with Jacknife Lee on the credits. I bought Collapse Into
Now by R.E.M. when it came out but never really listened to it. I put it
on the other day and thought there was something wrong with my system.
Tinny harsh and not much bass. I have no idea what they were
markiii wrote:
> first thing I'd do is add a linear PSU to the touchDoes it really make a
> difference though?
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didjean wrote:
> Very sorry - not sure I get that 2nd solution: so you would have a Pi
> with Squeezelite (e.g. picoreplayer - correct?). But how do you connect
> the pi to the DAC? USB to USB? No hat?
> For streaming service, he is using Qobuz via LMS.piCorePlayer is probably the
> easiest pa
didjean wrote:
> Ahahaha. Audiophools, I like that! :-) Thanks guys! You've just
> confirmed what I thought.
>
> I started doubting when I saw that there was that EDO addon for the
> Touch and therefore was wondering if "transport" could be potentially
> improved.
>
> on his side I think that
didjean wrote:
> Hi Audiophile chaps,
>
> A couple of months ago, I have converted an audiophile friend of mine to
> Squeezebox.
>
> He has the following equipment:
>
> - AMP: YBA ligne2 Alpha high current
> - Speakers: B&W CM9
> - DAC: TEAC UD 501
> - expensive cables :-)
> - LMS on Pi4 wi
marcb wrote:
> No offense but youre proving the old adage that a little knowledge can
> be dangerous. 99.9% of true stereo mixes (and even a great many mono
> mixes) are also not native and are exactly as you describe for
> multichannel mixes. They originate from multi-track recordings ranging
RobbH wrote:
> A very good piece on this subject by Mark Waldrep, who was mentioned by
> adamdea in post #8:
>
> 'The Truth About High-Resolution Audio: Facts, Fiction and Findings'
> (https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-news/the-truth-about-high-resolution-audio-facts-fiction-and-findings.
Wiredcharlie wrote:
> Thanks!
> Based on what you said I blanked custom-convert.conf and unplugged all
> of my players (actually I only have a few, most entries were experiments
> with squeezelite etc).
>
> So, I just had one player left - squeezelite on my computer. Inguz
> rebuilt custom-conv
RonM wrote:
> The Controller from the Duet pair is very dated hardware -- takes a long
> time to boot up, has a battery that doesn't last forever and doesn't
> have a great deal of flexibility. While it works to control the
> Transporter, I found it not very usable for that purpose.
>
> There a
ralphy wrote:
> The squeezebox receiver only support 48Khz max 24bit.
>
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_comparisonYes but like he says
> why doesn't LMS downsample it for playback on the
receiver?
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>
> My approach is rip to regular 16/44.1 FLAC and play with LMS. Sounds
> great. Early on, I created some 24 bit versions with dbpa HDCD DSP, but
> after realizing that they sound the same (to me) except take up a lot
> more space, I decided it was a waste of time. YMMV.
Only y
ftlight wrote:
> > slartibartfast wrote:
> > Yes but Stereophile like it.[emoji3]
> > https://www.stereophile.com/standsracks/206finite/index.html
> >
> > A bargain rack at only $6195 if you already have $100,000 of components!> >
> > Plus a few tho
Jeff07971 wrote:
> Did you see the last post in that thread ?
> :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:Yes but Stereophile like
> it.[emoji3]
https://www.stereophile.com/standsracks/206finite/index.html
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> Hey! So this is a dumb question about an old product, the SB3, that I
> still use. I'm running monster RCA cables out of the SB3 into the Aux
> port of a Marantz 2270. I just had the Marantz recapped, and
> everything's been great, until recently, I noticed a garbled static
> so
markolino1972 wrote:
> for who want to give a try
>
> demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLZcWjmkbwU
>
> download https://hotelattraction.wixsite.com/windowsaudiophile
>
> others shut up with stupid postsWhat is the YouTube demo meant to prove?
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> Thank you very much everyone. This is a lot to digest.
>
> First, the backstory... Hegel will have a software upgrade to the H190
> shortly that will enable the amp/dac as a Roon endpoint. I was planning
> to head this way after having been a loyal SB user since the days o
The power bank from RS you found in the other thread claims to supply
2.1 Amps. If one output draws 2.1 Amps the other output cannot be used.
It should be sufficient from the info in the installation document.castalla
wrote:
> Thanks more complicated than I thought!
>
> Okay here s
These seem to get good reviews.
https://www.bkelec.com
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Pascal Hibon wrote:
> Sure but that is not an equal competition. CD has the advantage; it is
> the better format. And when done right should sound better no matter
> what cart one uses.
> I'm just amazed how good that cart plays. It is very close to CD
> quality.
>
> Playing vinyl once and a w
cliveb wrote:
> To fit under a typical bed, the LPs are going to have to be laid flat.
> This is NOT A GOOD IDEA - storing LPs flat (and piled up on top of one
> another) tends to make them warp.
> LP records should be stored vertically, ideally with a small amount of
> side pressure.Maybe but be
Grumpy Bob wrote:
> Interesting - I've never owned many turntables in my life, but I don't
> recall ever feeling I've needed a detachable headshell - probably
> because I don't change cartridge terribly frequently. My venerable
> Planar 3 (something like 22-24 years old now) is still going strong
Jeff07971 wrote:
> Arnyk, Julf, Slarti
>
> OK I apologise, my reference to FFT was not very well though out.
>
> I should have said something like "To correctly pass a squarewave of any
> frequency an infinite bandwidth is required" can we agree to that ?
>
> and Arnyk I apologise specifically
Jeff07971 wrote:
> DC is in inverted commas for a reason, means 0 frequecy
DC soes not need to be in inverted commas to mean zero frequency. The
flat top is produced by adding the odd harmonics up to infinity.
Infinite bandwidth does not have to start from zero. In this case it
starts from the f
Jeff07971 wrote:
> The flat top of a square wave is in effect a "DC" it cannot be flat if
> you cannot pass "DC"
>
> The rising edge is effectively a very high freq nearly ∞ in
> contrast to the fundemental
>
> 2169721698
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wave
I'm not sure what you a
Jeff07971 wrote:
> I was trying to keep it simple so I'll rephrase
>
> "And mr fourier was also rigth any other wave form is made by sums of
> sinus waves." Yes but an FFT of a square wave would require sines of
> 1/∞ -∞ Hz to properly represent. Thankfully squarewaves are
> rare in music.
I do
pablolie wrote:
> From what I have observed it merely adds 2 tags MP3GAIN_MINMAX and
> MP3GAIN_UNDO. There are also REPLYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN and
> REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_MAX atgs - but I have to admit I am not sure if those
> were introduced by MP3GAIN.
>
> According to
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index
pablolie wrote:
> I run MP3Gain and normalize to a level that doesn't report clipping. I
> think I have it set up to 91dB. Unless it reports clipping at that
> level. I do dream about an automatically normalized/enforced loudness
> level across my library.
>
> And Smartgain doesn't work for me -
Wirrunna wrote:
> I have a pair of Klipschorns and occasionally visit the Klipsch forums
> and thought some of you may be interested in this thread.
>
> https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/topic/155096-the-missing-octaves-audacity-remastering-to-restore-tracks/
>
> You will have to registe
hen I found (I think) that a slight hard edge to the sound
which was more noticeable at higher volumes had disappeared resulting
in a much more natural and less fatiguing sound. I have no idea why
this should be true. Maybe my 0.75m coax was too short :-)
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