of this effect are wine snobbery,
audiophoolishness, and the price of California real estate.
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and (ugh!) tapes and everything went digital. If you really want
to be shocked, play a recording on your CD player then play the same on
a cylinder player. There is NO contest, the cylinder wins hands-down.
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called Positive Feedback publishes screwy stuff.
They're stuck in a loop and feeding back their own nonsense. Expect
wild oscillations and lots of annoying noise!
I want my 7 minutes back that I wasted reading that dumb article.
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How about asking at one of the thousands of ipod forums scattered all
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Thanks for the Herbach link, but I didn't find any 9v linear supplies
there.
Quitting while ahead is generally good advice. I never seem to do it
though.
Good luck to you, then!
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controlled impedance lines
at low frequencies (such as SPDIF) unless the line is VERY long.
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is as green as can be. A wind up motor and no
electricity. Zero carbon footprint!
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What a waste.
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for the offer.
Now I have to get back to studying for tomorrow's head and neck anatomy
exam.
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around a quiet room with headphones on. I
guess I need to work on a quality, small speaker project.
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amp that has tone controls from your
local garage sale. It shouldn't cost more than $10-20, depending on
its condition. Lift the treble slightly (turn the treble knob just a
little clockwise). Enjoy your music once again.
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caused by having wi-fi headphones! Such a product will really bring
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Was your SB3 sitting on a paint shaker before you put it on sorbothane
balls? When you say HUGE, do you mean GIGANTIC or merely STUPENDOUS?
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from dictionaries rather than audiophile
magazines and advertisements. I blame my parents! If only they had
steered me toward the right literature when I was a child I might not
suffer this loss of sensibility today. I wonder if I can get a
handicapped parking permit...
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. Try it and
see!
Did you try moving the SB3 off of the vibrating machinery? Try
swapping it's location with your DVD player...
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the experienced olive oil? Are the Italians
keeping it for themselves?
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TPost;238192 Wrote:
Is there a remote possibility of the contents of this post being true?
You are scaring me!:)
Why, do you have an implant?
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the effect is shy. If everyone
involved just takes a few deep breaths, suspends their critical thought
processes, and puts their attention elsewhere, the miracles will happen.
How much did this lesson cost you?
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. You can stop beating it!
That dog won't hunt!
Run it up the flag pole and see who salutes...
My detractors have misunderestimated me again.
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the feeling from that first time but
you keep getting farther from it.
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But where is the documentation that tells anyone that the capability is
there?
What else are they hiding in there?
How often does it turn on the built in mic and night vision camera so
they can monitor everything going on in my home?
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Besides, who listens to a CD player anymore when we have SBs?
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Make sure that you aren't streaming flac files as mp3. Then you'd be
comparing mp3 to mp3.
Don't expect much difference at high bit rates.
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tot;233199 Wrote:
They look the same, how could she be suspicious? :)
The old one would have a slimdevices logo on the faceplate and the
newer on would have the logitech logo!
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Yes, the SB runs warm. It is normal. If the supply provides 5V it
should not harm the unit or cause any other problems.
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on your believing what he says or believing what the MSDS says,
and what people who have handled the material say?
I think the public school system in this country needs to put a lot
more effort into teaching critical thinking skills...
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or replacing it
altogether. The damage will be done in just a second or two, anyway.
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) here:
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Read, enjoy and learn!
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An external supply can't eliminate the noise from the internal
switcher.
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I like to see DBT results for shielding equipment and cables. You
wrap your stuff up and expect to hear a difference, therefore you hear
a difference. Try is when you don't know if the stuff is wrapped or
not.
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I think that wireless connections in general have some reliability
issues.
That's why the signaling format is TCP/IP and why the SB has a large
buffer. There are no issues. Either it works or it doesn't.
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an interesting
question. When you know the answer please share it with us.
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it, but it's easy enough to test. Get yourself a
piece of CF cloth- any size will do. Flex it a few times, cut it with
scissors, etc. without using any protective mask, gloves, or goggles.
You will experience the joy for yourself.
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not be carcinogenic, but
it is most definitely nasty stuff.
The most obvious and undeniable (read the MSDS) issue is the electrical
conductivity of the loose fibers. Wrapping CF cloth around
electrical/electronic equipment is begging for problems.
Good luck!
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and vacuum the equipment thoroughly
before taking it back into your home. I'd do a lot of vacuuming in the
house where you were handling the stuff, too.
CF is not to be played with around electrical equipment.
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of the display and put in an analog supply for the audio stages
that are normally powered by dc-dc converter in the power supply. Use
N800 type device as the remote control/display.
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because you may be missing
much bigger momentary peaks in the current drain that may be occurring.
Ignorance really IS bliss!
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If you get a DVD drive make sure you get a dual layer capable drive.
That can come in handy for backing-up your DVD collection.
There's plenty of free software out there that makes it easy.
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so they can sell stuff to them in the future.
4) Someone wants to stroke their own ego - being able to hear things
others can't makes them better then those others.
Experience has taught me that 2, 3, and 4 often accompany each other.
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Phil Leigh;226103 Wrote:
That's a good point - maybe we could witness the birth of a new myth!
:o)
It could lie right along side the extant myth about CDs copied to CDR
sounding better than the factory pressed CDs.
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as well reverse the resistors in the SB and hope that the thing
will sound better when you're through. But which ones? All of them? A
few critical ones?
One guess is as good as another. Maybe you need a linear supply AND
reversed resistors...
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doubt a tad expensive,
but once youve bought it youve bought it!
Bad wolf
You're replacing a switch mode supply with a switch mode supply? Now
I've heard everything!
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devices are to that radiation.
You're going to get a what, $500 line conditioner to theoretically
counteract the noise made by a $5 power supply? In this context the
guys who spend $300 for a linear supply for the SBs look downright
sensible!
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Wonderful spam! Wonderful spam!
Spam, spam, spam, spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam...
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There is no standard for line level outputs.
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.
It's a quiet, unassuming little amp, with a cinnamony finish and
raspberry overtones- never offensive, and sometimes a bit too polite.
[not HIS quote, mine]...
Yeah, sure, you betcha! That's the guy I want telling me what to think
about audio!
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, but woman, amplifier, what's the difference?
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such as
suggestion and physiological effects such as reduced high frequency
hearing ability that comes with age? They truly are a super-human
breed!
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This thread alone should convince you that aspiring to be an audiophile
is the social equivalent of aspiring to be a pederast:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36503
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These days audiophiles prefer to buy expensive cables to modify the
tone- the cable marketing companies (yes, marketing, not engineering)
count this as their greatest success.
People can be such dopes!
If you like tone controls then use them.
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alZmtbr;215617 Wrote:
Hey! I resemble that remark!
CHEERS!
~a
For your sake, I hope not!
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What sort of audiophile do you want to be?
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You know, my car always seems to drive better when it's clean. I
wonder if it is the same phenomenon...
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with the dimpled cover because of reduced drag.
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signor_rossi;214186 Wrote:
@tyler_durden: The noise I refer to is a high frequency pulse emitted by
the PS that I easily hear and which is disturbing me during low volume
listening, since I am not far away from it when doing so ( I am always
talking about the DAC PS, the SB3 PS is fine
if you'll
get wet when you go out there.
Some things are easier to just try out than to boot up your computer,
start the browser, navigate to a forum, type the question, then wait
for answers.
And your invaluable contribution is...?
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effects of suggestion,
physiological limitations on hearing acuity, etc.
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in the overall sound of the equipment. If the
designers think an off-the-shelf supply is adequate, maybe, just maybe,
it is.
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Aw nutz!
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is 440 Hz. A 0.17% error in that
note is 0.73 Hz. I doubt even the most golden of ears can hear that
(though I am sure a few will claim to).
That's why the sonic implications are a non-issue.
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I think you need to have the 47 Labs DAC modded...
Which version of flac did you use when you ripped?
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. It's about feelings...
I can't wait to try it!
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the load on the motor so modulation of the power supply
voltage that feeds the DAC is reduced. Also, the focus coil for the
camera lens has to work less because the metal surface is much smoother
than the plastic surface. This too, leads to lower power supply
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Everyone assumes that a linear regulated supply will be an improvement
over the switcher that comes with the SB3, but no one seems to be
testing the idea that one switcher may sound better than another.
We'll never know if no one listens...
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http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/Free_Techniques/Free_Techniques.html
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Besides, the SB3 is already super-cool anyway.
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. It's like a bride's
veil has been lifted, and you are the groom, and her warm, moist lips
are waiting for your first kiss. Her ample chest is heaving with
anticipation and you feel a stirring in your nether region...
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(assuming it doesn't get destroyed by the cooling/rewarming processes).
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It's expensive, so it MUST be good!
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the great price
I got the Acopian for !
Maybe it's the power of expectation...
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transformers would shrink and smoothing caps in supplies would be
smaller.
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, and glue the pipe. Use schedule 40 PVC water pipe and
there will be no worries about the strength of the structure- I built
my son's loft bed from 2 schedule 40 about 5 years ago and he still
uses it. See it here:
http://mark.rehorst.com/PVC_Loft_Bed/index.htm
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Um, how about doing the obvious thing- screw the stands to the floor and
screw the speakers to the stands?
That wasn't so hard, was it?
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Most linear supplies have trimmers to adjust the output voltages. Look
for one (them) and adjust as required to get 5V out.
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to a 1000 more features that they don't need
anyway.
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someone whose eyes are fixed firmly on your wallet?
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( ) equalization
( ) Q-tips
( ) psychoanalysis
( ) trepanation
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at their will any time) or prior notice. Were those file ALAC
encoded?
Proprietary formats suck.
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Nobody answered my question!
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, maybe the saliva in my mouth, the electrolyte that is my blood,
and the titanium metal and mercury-amalgam fillings could set up a sort
of battery and the current could generate a magnetic field.
Any ideas if this is something I should worry about?
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catalogs? It might
be worth putting up with DRM for something like that.
Some sort of hardware standard would be helpful- like having flac
become the universal lossless encoding standard so files will play
everywhere. Record companies have the $ to push that if they want.
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to Paul Harvey, Rush Limbaugh, or big-haired weirdos begging for
money because God needs it, then replace the power supply. Don't expect
it to make the SB3 sound better, except by comparison of program
content.
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