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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cords 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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f the power
cable leading to the SB3.
While we're speculating about possible ways to muck up the sound, what
do you guys use to protect against meteorites? One of those might
REALLY screw up the sound!
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listen 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 compari
ators. Slimdevices own measurements
have proven it.
The horse is dead already. You can stop beating it anytime now.
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he whole thing to become obsolete in a year or two.
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many feel that sounds best).
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Have you tried some inexpensive acoustic treatment of the room and
optimal placement of speakers and listener? That will make more
difference than almost anything else you can do.
And by acoustical treatment, I don't mean mpingo disks...
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y requires. That big supply transformer
has a much larger leakage field around it than a smaller one and the
only practical way to "shield" it is to keep it as far away from the
audio circuits as possible. This is why many resort to putting power
supplies in boxes separate from the audio c
utfit your living room with the stuff you'd end up throwing it all
away in a week. Maybe THAT is the point of the stuff.
It is someone's art project and that's all. Totally impractical for
actual use.
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bricks or lead shot. Tell people its there to dampen
vibrations.
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You need to use a box made by hand from exotic woods and finished with
violin lacquer to get the best sound. Aluminum is cheap, that's why it
is used in all the mass market junk.
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iant pebbles, clever clocks, bybeee this's and thats, SUVs, big
houses, play golf, etc. The faster we use it up the faster we can be
done with it all.
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Sure I am an optimist. I just have a longer time horizon than most
other optimists and that causes people to confuse me with a pessimist.
The real solution to all our problems will come when the sun explodes
or burns out. I can hardly wait!
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uot; of
crop circles.
There is a not so small segment of the human race that wants to believe
in nonsense and even some who will kill and die over such beliefs as we
can see demonstrated in the middle-east and other places every day.
You can't change it. Give it up. Those peo
Bybee? Is there anything to discuss?
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be updated (if you're using the latest slimserver).
If you use old slimserver to match old SB firmware you might have
problems with the newer SB3. Why not run the whole set-up on an old
release of SB firmware and old slimserver?
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oid your warranty...
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e it sound better
ensures that that is the result that is reported.
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jonheal;190876 Wrote:
> I thought the ear candling thing was a joke! It's real?!?
It's a real joke!
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I wonder if the same biomarker for placebo effect also marks a
propensity for religious zeal. THAT would explain a lot of things...
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I find the SB3 to be somewhat sweet, with cinamonny overtones, ending
with a subtle, chocolatey finish. Complements fish and spicy Thai
dishes...
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Dare I mention the .lossless newsgroups on usenet? Many .flac files
there... A nice way to sample music by different artists before you
buy their CDs.
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possibly make?
You want to see horrible power waveforms? Take a look at what comes
out of the rectifier in your power amp. It doesn't matter if you use a
power regenerator or not. That waveform is terrible looking. So
what?!
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P Floding;188495 Wrote:
>
> Seems the jokes never end on this kind of sites.
> Are those testimonials fake? I hope so, at least...
In this situation, the proper term is not "fake" but "schill&
> Of course, they all sound the same to me now.
Except the Harley's- I'll never figure out why anyone would pay good
money to ride around on something that sounds like a wet fart...
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If you didn't get the expected results, it is because you were either
too ignorant or too cheap to spring for a set of these:
http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina44.htm
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jmourik;188448 Wrote:
> But wouldn't that be the same problem as bringing out a new model? You
> just ordered the sb3, and a month later the new and improved sb4
> appears. Bummer...
> Or they could launch a SB3 Cryo, for $325?
>
> Dunno...
No, that would be different.
Read this to find out why Slimdevices doesn't freeze SB3 components
before assembly or whole SB3s before shipping them:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/PWB/message/162
Any comments, Sean?
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Yes, this is America's great shame.
The lunatics are running the assylum.
For more interesting info about how religion has had its influence on
American society, read this:
http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2005/2005-11.html
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Why are all the audio reviewers so far out of touch with technology that
they use things like apple lossless and windows media lossless files for
their tests? 99% of the world that isn't magazine reviewers uses flac.
Methinks they've been polishing their styli too long...
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isn't flat :-)
You oughta quit smoking that stuff; clearly it is NOT good for you.
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disposable income to throw away on junk,
so he provides the junk.
Here's an old saying that may help you through the rest of your audio
life: "if there ain't no numbers, there ain't no engineering".
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ound better after "burn-in" causes you
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ledge the YOU have no connection with the
guy selling the product. I guess that makes it all OK, then!
I think there are about 6 different logic errors buried in there...
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o tell from the photo, but I'm guessing Mpingo disk!
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to the
floor, drool dripping from his chin, then "Would you marry me?"
Women just don't get it.
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: Should there be a new forum for photos?
- yes
- no
- maybe
Are those brilliant pebbles in that champagne flute on the speaker? Do
they make the system sound better?
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Is it hospital grade?
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ra special!
Hanging a giant cap on the output of the supply probably does wonders
for the performance of its regulator, too.
Audio idiocy at its best!
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, or when one of the
speakers is connected and disconnected.
If Bob says the power supply makes a tremendous difference it isn't
YOUR SYSTEM that sucks...
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o build as many as anyone wants for $375
each.
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alization cues intact.
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impedance throughout the audio band. A 3-terminal LT regulator is a
$2 part.
$750 for this supply doesn't border on ridiculous, it climbs over the
fence, swims across the river, and marries your daughter!
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What does best mean?
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What do you hope to achieve by going from a switcher to another
switcher?
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0 -that is
cheaper than you can buy the parts to build one yourself.
Check Herbach-Rademan's power supply offerings.
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Anything is fine, the shorter the better.
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mode. I have a detailed
procedure for automatic tagging using flac on my web page here:
http://mark.rehorst.com/Audio_System/index.htm
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a
the other side would ever venture into the the other lair without
expecting to be eaten alive, and if they do, so what, they knew what to
expect before they went there.
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, but in other software that's sometimes
> enabled by default.
Replaygain does NOT alter the audio data one bit.
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hat was filled with sand because the sand was "harmonically
sympathetic" (or some such nonsense) to the glass envelopes of the
tubes- both are composed of SiO2.
One could easily get the impression that audophi
cognize and take advantage of it and voila! a new industry is born!
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pplies?
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Is that adapter gold plated?
;)
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it no longer has a display.
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ts, remove coupling caps from amplifier inputs, etc., to
"improve" their equipment, only to end up with blown speakers and
toasted amplifiers.
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It's a MARKETING BREAK-THROUGH!
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wshields;169437 Wrote:
> I got an RMA. Why would a company call something a "NO RISK Purchase
> plan" then charge a 5% restocking fee? What does no risk mean to you
> smart guy?
It means no risk to THEM, silly!
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Try here:
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can be done as a batch operation on as many CDs as you care to
rip. Ripping takes the longest and is the biggest PITA because you
have to sit there and change discs every few minutes and correct all
the freedb errors (if you care to). I had two computers with 2 CDROM
drives in each doing
come from the same album and apply album gain properly.
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. I can read NTFS in linux, which I have recently
switched to, but I can't write to NTFS, so when I want to rip another
disc to add to the library, I have to drop back to windows (I feel like
I need to take a shower every time I have to use windows).
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can get a decent recording.
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ayback and record are too much to ask of my sound card...
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large. Much larger
than anything you'll get by changing a cable, an amplifier, or even
upgrading your CD player.
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ooped through my
C-9, switching it on and off and post it to a web page for DL so you
can play it back and try it out. It will have to be digitized by my
sound card which isn't top of the line, but you'll still get the flavor
of what crosstalk cancellation can do.
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d the transmitter. They compress
> the hell out of music anyway. There is no reason to compress music for
> retail sale.
> Pat
> http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
Maybe the goal in compressing the CD is to make CD or mp3 playback
sound the same as it does o
Here's some good stuff on 3D sound fields. There is some good stuff on
loudspeaker crosstalk cancellation.
http://www.jvrb.org/3.2006/589
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this concept apply
only to audio equipment?
What is the origin of this urge? Where do folks who are often
unskilled/unschooled in electronics get the confidence that they can
improve on something designed by highly trained engineers?
Hm.
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noise floor along with the signal.
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d from the left speaker and the right ear mainly hears
the sound from the right speaker. The timing is critical, so there is
a very small sweetspot and position of the speakers and listener in the
room are critical, but it is really mind-blowing when it works.
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for you to find your
stuff. Simple and it works. I did it for my 600+ CD collection.
Of course, you may want to edit some of the tags, especially for
classical or multiple artist type discs, but those are a problem with
ANY tagging/storage syst
CDs that actually make use of the full dynamic range the disc is capable
of recording, so there is plenty to "throw away" for replay gain. IIRC,
in my collection, replaygain typically lowers the track gain by 3-5 dB.
Replay
of them. Very simple.
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errors. Maybe
EAC can be pointed at it instead of FreeDB.
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divorce, you'll be able to grab the transporter without a fight.
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My wife used to make her desire for attention known by sitting next to
me on the couch and subtly jabbing her elbow or knee into me. It took
me a couple years but I finally wised up and got rid of the couch. Now
all we have are chairs. No more pain...
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useable value.
Try turning the display on and see if you still have a noise problem.
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simplify your process...
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I find that doing so causes linux to change the path to the external
HDD with my music library and it stops working. One of these days I'll
go in and fix it so that the OS doesn't change the path like that...
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l to the SB3 and be fed from a linear
regulator instead.
Will it really matter? I have no idea. My SB3 sounds pretty good to
me as is. I can't imagine any change due to regulators being more that
slight. For me it isn't worth the bother.
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"Jung super regulator". It is about as close
to ideal as you're going to get. Check google for the circuit.
I believe the transporter uses Jung regulators to power the audio
circuits.
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ould be able to sell it for a pretty decent chunk of money then.
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tually looked
microscopically better with the stock switching supply.
In short, if you WANT to hear a difference, you probably will, and if
you don't really care, you probably won't. If you're listening to mp3
files, you probably don't care enough to hear a difference anyw
e voltage is too high. The SB wants 5V,
not 7.5. Second, that's a switching supply. You already have one of
those and that is what the whole linear vs. switching power supply
thing is about.
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r very low
prices.
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put it in a box because it is an open-frame
design.
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ing that generates sufficient power you may also cook
your speakers at the same time. That would be an expensive lesson.
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in your stereo do you (unless you want it to hum)? You need solar
panels and batteries to power the system. The electrons travel in only
one direction giving them a synergy that has to be heard to be
believed.
One final bit of advice: don't believe everything you read on the
internet (or
tyler_durden;159119 Wrote:
>
> When "burning-in" a cable, how do you decide how long is enough?TD
What is the difference between a good and bad signal for burn-in and
how do you know if what you're using is one or the other?
highdudgeon;159181 Wrote:
> Absolutely no worries -- it was a long day and I snapped too quickly;
> your joke was funny and indeed and, well, it has grown...
I think both you guys better just have some Junior Mints and relax a
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> Or possibly insert. I'm sure a cell phone could find a way into some
> opening, surgical or not...
Junior Mints are nice!
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Any or all of those scenarios will work equally well.
When "burning-in" a cable, how do you decide how long is enough?
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