Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-07 Thread ebrandon
My dac has a display that shows the sample rate of the input signal. It showed 48khz. - Eric -- ebrandon ebrandon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10414 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-06 Thread agentsmith
ebrandon;185611 Wrote: I downloaded the samples. Did a FLAC-WAV conversion. My slimserver is set to send WAV as WAV, not FLAC. The SB3 played the files without incident, downsampling them to 48khz. My SB3 is hooked up to an external DAC and a very high-end system. I found the samples

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-04 Thread ebrandon
I downloaded the samples. Did a FLAC-WAV conversion. My slimserver is set to send WAV as WAV, not FLAC. The SB3 played the files without incident, downsampling them to 48khz. My SB3 is hooked up to an external DAC and a very high-end system. I found the samples fairly unimpressive both

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-04 Thread agentsmith
Veggen;185137 Wrote: What did you use for your flac to wav conversion? As i said earlier using flac 1.1.3 with the flac frontend GUI with Decode through errors option checked worked for me. I just used the FLAC Frontend latest version. I did not get any error decoding to WAV. But the music

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-03 Thread Veggen
The Smokester;185068 Wrote: Veggen, I had similar problems. I emailed their customer service with my order number. They immediately allowed me direct access to (a part of) their server for 24 hours to download. This solved the problem. So, I suggest giving customer service a try. Hi, look

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-03 Thread Veggen
agentsmith;185089 Wrote: However, I encountered the exact same symptons, the files all started dropping off consistently at certain spots, tried different connection methods and all that. This time I also tried to uncompress into WAV files with exact same results. What did you use for your

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-03 Thread Veggen
Eric Carroll;185071 Wrote: So how do people find the quality of the transfers? IMHO, they simply sound just great. Download the Saint-Saens free sampler and decide for yourself. I have heard 3 different recordings of this piece, including one sacd, and the HDTT version is the best. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread Veggen
agentsmith;184815 Wrote: One curious point is the HDTT 96Khz FLAC files are only streaming at about 600Kbps. That is definitively not right, my HDTT 24/96 files streams at around 2700kbps. Are you sure you have your file types set up correct, flac (built-in), and that no bit rate limiting is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread Veggen
OK done some testing. First I tried decoding the Friedman flac files to wav format using flac 1.1.3 with FLAC frontend. This gave me an error message and no wav file, so I then tried ticking the Decode through errors option. This produced the same error messages, but also wav files. These files

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread The Smokester
Veggen, I had similar problems. I emailed their customer service with my order number. They immediately allowed me direct access to (a part of) their server for 24 hours to download. This solved the problem. So, I suggest giving customer service a try. -- The Smokester

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Carroll
So how do people find the quality of the transfers? -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4 SB3-Rotel RB890-BW Matrix 805 SB3-Pioneer VSX-49TXi-Mirage OM7+C2+R2 ReadyNAS NV+ Eric

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread agentsmith
agentsmith;184815 Wrote: I just purchase and downloaded the Erick Friedman Violin Show pieces album and is experiencing drop outs on all the songs. I tried network test and it passed all the tests 100% up to the max of 5Mbps. Also tried different connectivity methods, including

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-02 Thread agentsmith
agentsmith;185089 Wrote: The folks at HDTT was kind enough to let me download a new set of files. I downloaded the whole album again, this time the file size and bit rate of 2,700kbps makes more sense. However, I encountered the exact same symptons, the files all started dropping off

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-01 Thread Veggen
Veggen;184419 Wrote: Just bought the Dvorak violin concerto. Downloading now but it is slow, only 60kB/s, this is going to take a while. Hope it is worth the wait. Edit: It took around half an hour for a 100MB file, but you can download several files in parallell so its not too bad.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-03-01 Thread agentsmith
I just purchase and downloaded the Erick Friedman Violin Show pieces album and is experiencing drop outs on all the songs. I tried network test and it passed all the tests 100% up to the max of 5Mbps. Also tried different connectivity methods, including connecting direct Fast Ethernet 100Bbps

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread agentsmith
agentsmith;184237 Wrote: Dear HDTT, May I ask the reason for taking down the sampler? I would imagine the sampler will help with sales. Low res would help to illustrate the performance, but it would be really helpful if you could put up a sampler with full resolutiom, even 30 seconds

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread HDTT
Back by popular demand the link is up, the link is on this page http://highdeftapetransfers.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATSCategory=14[/url] Thanks for the feedback guys here to help Bob -- HDTT HDTT's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread HDTT
I beg to differ the burning process is huge in the making of a CD, jitter comes into play, we use a Sonic Solutions CD.1 to burn all of our CD's and media and burner make a very big difference, you should run that question or thought by Steve Nugent of Empirical audio I think he will agree with

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread Codmate
HDTT;184261 Wrote: I beg to differ the burning process is huge in the making of a CD, jitter comes into play, we use a Sonic Solutions CD.1 to burn all of our CD's and media and burner make a very big difference, you should run that question or thought by Steve Nugent of Empirical audio I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread agentsmith
HDTT;184259 Wrote: Back by popular demand the link is up, the link is on this page http://highdeftapetransfers.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATSCategory=14 Thanks for the feedback guys here to help Bob P.S. Most are not online to buy (the samples) but they will give you a idea of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread HDTT
Not to familiar with that method, my server is quite big, so it should handle it, let me know if any of you guys get any major slowdowns on the downloads Bob HDTT -- HDTT HDTT's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
HDTT wrote: I beg to differ the burning process is huge in the making of a CD, jitter comes into play, we use a Sonic Solutions CD.1 to burn all of our CD's and media and burner make a very big difference, you should run that question or thought by Steve Nugent of Empirical audio I think he

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread HDTT
Not really following the logic of that method, I was talking of playing it on a CDP -- HDTT HDTT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10440 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
HDTT wrote: Not really following the logic of that method, I was talking of playing it on a CDP Yeah, but we're on the Slim Devices forums so I was talking about playing it on a Transporter or Squeezebox. :p R. ___ audiophiles mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread Veggen
Just bought the Dvorak violin concerto. Downloading now but it is slow, only 60kB/s, this is going to take a while. Hope it is worth the wait. -- Veggen Veggen's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread cvj
HDTT;184170 Wrote: High Definition Tape Transfers Download Center is now open, it features six of our releases in true 24/96 resolution ready for download, all files are compressed with Flac. www.highdeftapetransfers.net Thanks Looking at the selections you sell, I notice that they feature

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-28 Thread HDTT
Please visit our Faq's page it will describe our source, these are from reel to reel releases from the 50's and 60's all of our releases have been searched by a Goverment Liason Services for copyright, if you check also none of our releases has been reissued on SACD we are not trying to compete

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread HDTT
High Definition Tape Transfers Download Center is now open, it features six of our releases in true 24/96 resolution ready for download, all files are compressed with Flac. www.highdeftapetransfers.net Thanks -- HDTT

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread agentsmith
This is great news! I just read about HDTT on Tone Audio. They did not mention downloadability so this is a perfect chance to try it out. Question to HDTT: Have these recordings been tried out on Slim's devices? Also, I read about a sampler with extracts, but cannot find it on your web site.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread Eric Carroll
agentsmith;184181 Wrote: Also, I read about a sampler with extracts, but cannot find it on your web site. I downloaded the sampler and it worked fine on my Transporter. The SB3 will downsample it to 48 KHz and should play fine. -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread agentsmith
Eric Carroll;184185 Wrote: I downloaded the sampler and it worked fine on my Transporter. The SB3 will downsample it to 48 KHz and should play fine. Could you provide the URL for the download? -- agentsmith SB2/Pioneer DV-S733A - Benchmark DAC1 - Naim Nait 5i - Naim Ariva Speakers.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread Tbrooke
I downloaded the demos a while back but they keep cutting out on my SB3. Tom Brooke -- Tbrooke Tbrooke's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8045 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread HDTT
agentsmith;184181 Wrote: This is great news! I just read about HDTT on Tone Audio. They did not mention downloadability so this is a perfect chance to try it out. Question to HDTT: Have these recordings been tried out on Slim's devices? Also, I read about a sampler with extracts, but

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread Eric Carroll
HDTT;184208 Wrote: We have taken down the sampler it has been up for over a month, we are going to have previews to listen very soon, they will have to be played through Windows Media Player and of course they will be in low rez just for preview purposes. I found the sampler to be very

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread Eric Carroll
Tbrooke;184204 Wrote: I downloaded the demos a while back but they keep cutting out on my SB3. Tom Brooke Are you wireless? Did you check your signal levels? These do stream at higher bit rates. You might want to enable the network test function and try some high bit rate performance

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

2007-02-27 Thread ModelCitizen
HDTT;184208 Wrote: We have taken down the sampler it has been up for over a month, we are going to have previews to listen very soon, they will have to be played through Windows Media Player and of course they will be in low rez just for preview purposes. Thanks I've just read this thread