derator will transport the chosen audiophools directly to
audiophool heaven where they will never have to hear a differing opinion
for all eternity.
Yeah, right.
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#x27;s
> Grey Album, then some Manu Chao...love that TP.
In the spirit of the upcoming holidays, may I suggest "My Life in the
Bush of Ghosts" and maybe Material's "Seven Souls"?
Does anyone in
I have comtemplated a while and now understand the real question to be
answered here. I put it to you thusly:
Is God an audiophile?
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There, you see. This is what religion leads to.
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fine cigars", and "the finer things in life".
>
> You are hereby banned from further access to this thread. Bailiff,
> whack his pee-pee!
>
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tomjtx;157005 Wrote:
> Don't forget the necessary hot, young girlfriend. You just can't listen
> without one.
They suck up too much money that is better spent on luxury automobiles,
watches, and fine wine... but I suppose if she comes from the right
family...
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hearing acuity, good-looks, wealth (preferrably inherited- everyone
knows that old money is better than new), and...?
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what people post in a thread to avoid the possibility
of offending anyone, there should instead be a test of "thickness of
skin" before one is allowed to read the posts. Easily offended,
bubble-blowing, double-babies will not be allowed access! If you can't
take the
surprise that they communicate on
higher levels than the average Joe.
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rums are populated mainly by highly
intelligent people with discriminating tastes and excellent finances
(just ask them!), so it should be no surprise that they communicate on
higher levels than the average Joe.
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I'd bet there are corresponding effects in audio...
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hanged something as part of the test. Why would my
friend say such a thing if something hadn't been changed, or if there
was no test going on? I don't know what to think any more. I couldn't
sleep last night for thinking about it. AArrrr!
tecting some difference between the
current setup and the original setup. Part of me wants to know what
the test is about and part of me wants it to continue to its conclusion
so I can get the results.
What should I do?
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can go into the power amp and install the resistors on
the input jacks.
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I be interested to know what sort of analog 5V regulator runs with just
6VDC input. Most require a couple volts drop to work, and when they
don't get it, they stop regulating.
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scover how bad we are at
> judging reality, and knowing that such errors are common is crucial in
> just about every aspect of life.
>
It seems some people are inherently better at recognizing reality than
others, and those who aren't, are not very good at learning to
your expectations. Human minds are easy to fool- ever see
slight-of-hand magic performed? If it is so easy for someone else to
fool us, imagine how much easier it is to fool ourselves.
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iever, you will hear a difference, and if you
aren't you won't. There's no need to get upset about it. It is human
nature and it applies to you even if you think it doesn't.
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there is no difference in performance.
If you want to hear a difference you will, so you should get the linear
supply and you will be happy. If you don't think you'll hear a
difference, then don't bother, because there is no difference to hear.
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Which is more likely to be "breaking-in", the device or your mind? My
money is on YOU.
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If you have trouble with broadcast reception, try looking up the local
station on the internet and see if they stream their audio. If they do
you can enter the uRL into slimserver and you'll be able to listen to
the local station via your SB3.
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ybe
just a cheap LCD- but then it will be like some of its competitors.
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p CDROM drive dumping the data into a
buffer.
The mechanism that moves the laser and focuses it is very slow compared
to the head positioners in a HDD. That is probably why DVDs don't use a
HDD storage/EC type scheme. Also, there is limited capacity in the
discs to store all that extra ED/EC in
like
"volume up" will it destroy my speakers? I can forsee many bands
having fun with SB listeners by writing lyrics into their songs that
trip the voice interface- sort of an audio trojan...
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y targeted this sensibility for years. It works
becauses it reinforces the insecure customer's need to be better than
others.
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ig
impact on the group average.
The study pointed out that the low scoring people overestimated their
own abilities relative to their peers, then when shown the actual
scores, continued to overestimate themselves even though all the sco
a cure is recognizing the problem...
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;re doing just fine- our society is clearly structured to promote
the low scoring people to the highest offices- just look who's in the
white house, congress, and senate...
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handicap of poor metacognition...
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I wonder if any of the modders have worked out the changes to improve it
even more!?!
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t-5 cable sounds best" because the high-end nutz have gotten
their education from people who make/sell things like "Bybee filters"
and "brilliant pebbles".
I only hope there's enough money in it for him to compensate for h
g crackpot audio product sales
literature.
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e is a link to a paper that you should read carefully- everyone
should- and really think about it while and after you've read it:
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
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speakers will make a large and obvious difference,
whereas the CD players will sound pretty much the same. This is true
for amplifiers and preamps, too. This is why I suggest you put the
money into the speakers/room treatment.
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nt
of the room to get best sound. You might discover that your speakers
are just fine if you simply reposition them, the furniture, etc.
Don't waste money on expensive cables.
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to errors in freeDB
data. You'll wish you had spent the extra $100 and done it right the
first time.
Don't forget to get an extra HDD to make a back-up copy of the library.
You don't want to have to rip AGAIN when
If you're not enjoying that SB3 yet, I'll give you $50 plus shipping for
it...
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That depends on what the definition of "is" is.
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d misuse
of the word "theory" can lead to all sorts of silliness, as we have
seen in the courts recently...
On the topic of this thread, I am pleased to see this sort of testing
being done. Someone once said "if you're not producing numbers,
you&#
ould appear that there is a DC
offset.
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Now go away.
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This is already done daily. Go to alt.binaries.sounds.lossless on
usenet. You'll find tons of .flac and .ape lossless files, sometimes
they are even tagged correctly...
You will have to make your own decision about the morality of the
issue.
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Mike Anderson Wrote:
>
> And isn't prostitution the oldest profession? Just thought I'd throw
> that out there.
Nope. Dentistry is the oldest profession- look here:
http://tinyurl.com/fws7q
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Robin Bowes Wrote:
>
> Do you understand *any* of the details of the specification?
> R.
I am an engineer. I understand specs when I see them. There were no
specs except that it works with 110 or 220 VAC in. The rest was just
fluff.
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g. I'll bet they set a
stoopid price like $500 for the thing too...
And Stereophile editorials keep speculating on the reason for the ever
decreasing size of the high-end industry? It is easy to see why when
you aren't part of that industry.
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ke that to
prove their benefit. Now if YOUR system costs $50k, and YOU can tell
the difference betwen a $500 bottle of wine and a $400 bottle of wine,
well MAYBE you and your system are sensitive enough...
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What? No Mpingo discs? No sticky dots?
Maybe they're saving them for the full review...
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I had an old ZIP disc drive that had a wallwart nearly identical to the
SB3 wallwart. It was one of the parallel port connected 100 MB stiffy
disc drives. Look for one on ebay...
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x27;t make the DAC output
inside the SB balanced...
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Hum is a low frequency phenomena. It is more likely to be caused by
improper grounding than by a squeezebox radiating at 2.4 GHz. Make
sure that your preamp and turntable are grounded together.
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fail quickly or last a long time. They are looking for
the fail-quickly devices. I'm sure their engineers would get a good
laugh at the notion of "breaking-in" the power supply. It ain't shoes,
you know...
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r
supply. That's a bit steep for a 5V 2A power supply...
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ifference (for some reason it is always an improvement) when they
switch to a linear regulated supply. Either they are right or they are
deluded. Take your pick.
I didn't hear any difference so I went back to the stock power supply
(it's much s
e 5V
switcher on the SB3...
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soon.
Stereophile is a joke.
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to
make a difference in the digital jitter as it is to make an audible
difference in the analog output.
Only you can decide if the digital jitter is audible in either case.
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about vibration, power line noise, and varying magnetic fields from the
fan motor and how they will all affect your sound.
You see, you can't win no matter what you do.
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hal9000 Wrote:
>
> ps it has been a challenge to get a sat installer to come out and help
> with this issue...must be a tough thing to figure out/fix.
Only if he doesn't know what he is doing, which describes 99% of them.
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appear because the cost of
storage will be so low everyone will go lossless, first with lossless
compression like flac. aac or wma, then in another couple years, you'll
just be storing .wav files (for CDs, until you need to store 24 bit 96
ksps stuff).
At the rate things are going, terab
;might" become proprietary some day?
You sound like you don't want to use a proprietary format but you're
affraid to use an open source format.
I'm confused...
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ystem.
Search for 75 Ohm isolation transformer and you'll find what you need.
Of course, if your have a satellite receiver on that coax you need to be
able to send DC to the LNA to tune the receiver. I think there are
isolating transformers that solve that problem also.
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The analog VU meter is definitely NOT accurate in terms of the levels
shown. I run test tones at 0 dB and -20 dB and they show up as
something like +10 and -5 dB.
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low by design.
An external linear regulated supply will reduce the noise going INTO
the HV switcher, but it won't make any difference on the noise coming
out of the HV switcher and going into the linear regulators that power
the analo
doing something
meaningful (or you might not).
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ere THAT
will get us!
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ounds like
it's coming from all over the place, one of your speakers is connected
wrong. Switch either one and listen again.
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n the absolute rightness of their beliefs, revel in their
ignorance. So it is and so it will be until humanity's ignorance
ultimately leads to the end of humanity.
The way things have been going lately, that may not be too far off.
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Question for you guys who are doing all this board cutting and
modifying-
Do you have a schematic and board layout diagrams?
Where can I get copies of them?
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Doh!
There it is!
I don't know how I missed it...
Thanks,
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both ways to access that function.
I have moved the dangerous files out of the library for now, but I'd
like to put them back because I often make changes to my system and
need to run some channel ID and phasing tracks to ensure proper
reconnection of all the gazintas and gazouta
it weighs around 25 lbs. I sort
of overbuilt the power supply with a 330VA transformer and 160,000 uF
total capacitance.
I'll have to do something about that volume control knob one of these
days...
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audiophil
and 15 kHz or so).
In the meantime I'll guess I'll move those files out of the normal
music library or stop using random mix...
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e their own replay gain, look out!
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be any physical medium
changing hands.
Sort of weird if you think about it. You pay with dollars you never
touch and you get a product you can't touch...
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(nothing standard is ever good enough for THAT crowd) and charges $500
or more to make the mods to your SB3 for you.
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may I recommend some reading that will help everyone on all sides of the
issue understand everyone on all the other sides?
Try this:
http://www.phule.net/mirrors/unskilled-and-unaware.html
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lso can't hear any differences between my speaker cables and
cheap, hardware store zip cord, but I went to the trouble of making
these, too, so I use them.
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hkfind Wrote:
> I like listen in the dark too but the purpose is to tunning the
> soundstage. Haha, I should enjoy more to the music. By the way, what
> speakers are you using now?
Quad ESL-63s.
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I do a lot of listening in the dark, late at night when the house is
quiet. I usually pour a glass of brandy or or bourbon to sip while I
listen. It does wonders for the sound-stage!
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p as an audio box when you can trick out
a PC for such use for $500?
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#x27;t going to be one setting that works for all music. You will
want to be able to bypass the thing sometimes.
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inout used in the C-9.
Don't pay too much for the C-9. The Behringer units are supposed to be
pretty good, and they don't cost that much.
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e how it sounds.
Here are links to the files, in the order listed above:
http://tinyurl.com/8parn
http://tinyurl.com/ddgvk
http://tinyurl.com/ba73u
Enjoy!
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et from
surrounding walls, and pointed at the listener, listener a couple feet
from nearest walls), which is going to be a requirement for any good
audio performance, with or without a cross-talk canceller.
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slow, and
used huge amounts of memory, but it worked. I'll see if I can find the
file on one of my old back-up discs...
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ng that a stereo that
doesn't work sounds worst of all.
If you're looking to replace the power supply I would stay relatively
close to the spec'd current draw of the device. I might go 2X the
rated current, but I definitely would no
x27;ll be paying more for poorer performance.
The SB3 marketing info specifically says they have separate linear
reguators for the audio stages. I have a hard time believing that
using a linear supply is going to have much effect at all, but if
changing power supplies is
eadwize.com/faqs.htm#access
The device includes speaker crosstalk cancelation, among many other
functions, and costs less than the original Carver thingy:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHDSP2024P
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library and you're ready to rip some more.
The flac tags will be fully loaded with correct info and you'll be able
to browse by year, artist, genre on your squeezebox.
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