Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-30 Thread tingtong5
I would like to share my initial impressions as well. But first of all I would like to thank Inguz for this amazing piece of work! :-) When using normal.drc from Inguz and flat.txt as a target curve, room correction sounds very very bright (way too much treble so to speak) Then I tried

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-28 Thread tingtong5
Hi Guys, I tried to create filters today but no luck :P Compiling drc was no problem but when executing ImpulsePrep nothing happens, no error, no messages, no progress, just nothing.. hammie:/home/ronald# ImpulsePrep.exe /L left.wav /R right.wav /copy ImpulsePrep v0.9.22

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-21 Thread Anne
I am maybe gonna go for the Inguz when I have time to spare, but, I wonder if I really need it a the moment. My appartment is fairly small, and the speakers are situated in a way that makes my toes bend, its against ecerything I have ever preached ! But thats life for the moment. I listen in

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-21 Thread krochat
Anne;203592 Wrote: Anyway, the Inguz can be switched off easily when using headphones ? Yes - Inguz adds a menu on the SB3 to enable or disable room correction. You have to restart or change tracks for the change to take effect. Regards, Kim -- krochat -- SB3 (+linear) - Big Ben -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-20 Thread tonyptony
totoro;203224 Wrote: The file in question is the _target_ curve, which could be flat, or one of the others (the one I use gradually rolls off in the treble-- if you open up one of the files, you'll see frequencies, followed by tab characters, then by numbers representing how far up or down

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-19 Thread tonyptony
totoro;153169 Wrote: 3. I neglected to modify the conf files for drc. The default microphone is _not_ the behringer ecm8000, which is what I used, and the default target curve wasn't the flat one, but a spline. The result was a somewhat hollow sound. Others have reported hollow sounds, as

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-19 Thread tonyptony
Figured out how to do it. But is there a general consensus that flat.txt is the right target curve file? -- tonyptony tonyptony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3397 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-19 Thread 325xi
A stupid question perhaps, but I'll try anyways. Is there any computer hardware having those specialized floating point DSPs, such as SHARC used in Behringer, that could take the relevant part of the load out of PC's CPU? We have video cards that do exactly this for video - that is, to take

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-12 Thread parrydave
So I just got Slimserver kinda working on vista premium, and have installed Inguz. To check the dsp was running, I tried some test signals. Yep, heard those. The trouble is I don't seem to be able to get menu selections made through the player interface to register properly and am now unable

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-12 Thread inguz
Oh no! Setting Off should certainly work... I'll follow up separately to try figure out what's broken. The quick fix is to open the squeezebox_id.settings.conf file (in the application data Settings folder) with NotePad, and delete the line that says SignalGenerator Type= -- inguz

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-08 Thread inguz
File types: just select the flac/InguzDSP entries. If you have more than one player, you'll see one entry for each player in the file types list, because of the way the transcoding is hooked in. No other plugins required. No, I don't think you see any change in the track details such as

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-07 Thread muski
Greetings from the newest Inguz fan. Inguz is the ultimate WAF-antidote... All of my music is in FLAC format. What is the minimal file type set that I need (server settings-File Types). Do I need FLAC (built-in) flac/InguzDSP or just the latter. Any other file types required? Also, do you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread parrydave
I'm just about to get a new PC partly so I can run InguzDRC. Would a 1.8Ghz core2duo E4300 be sufficient (with 2GB RAM)? thanks -- parrydave *modded squeezebox 3/arcam cd92t/arcam a85/arcam avr300 dynaudio contour 1.3mkii/dynaudio focus 200c/mk k-4/rel q150 pioneer pdp-507xd/sky+/harmony

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread Skunk
parrydave;199240 Wrote: I'm just about to get a new PC partly so I can run InguzDRC. Would a 1.8Ghz core2duo E4300 be sufficient (with 2GB RAM)? thanks I have the E6300, which is the 2mb cache version of the conroe core. With inguz running I can still rip or burn discs, use photoshop,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread parrydave
Skunk, I grabbed a bargain system earlier today which will be used for various things (e.g. Photoshop,video editing etc). It'll also run slimserver, but not often at the same time. As Inguz DRC seems to be fairly processor hungry, I just wanted to make sure that the E4300 was up to the job.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread opaqueice
parrydave;199297 Wrote: Skunk, I grabbed a bargain system earlier today which will be used for various things (e.g. Photoshop,video editing etc). It'll also run slimserver, but not often at the same time. As Inguz DRC seems to be fairly processor hungry, I just wanted to make sure that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread vdorta
Playing music with wide dynamic range (Elgar's Enigma by Boult), my Athlon 64 X2 4800+ averages below 10%, rarely peaking to 30%. I believe 1MB RAM is required for Vista; I have 2MB and normal usage is never less than 36%. -- vdorta Silent computer, Windows Vista Ultimate, dBpowerAMP

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread parrydave
Thanks for response everyone. Helped put my mind at rest (I haven't understood CPU speeds since newer versions started having slower clocks!). I'm moving from a 5 year old 1.2Ghz Athlon that runs close to 100% when I use InguzDRC. Just about keeps going, but the SB3 buffer stays at zero for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-05-03 Thread Skunk
parrydave;199297 Wrote: Skunk, I grabbed a bargain system earlier today which will be used for various things (e.g. Photoshop,video editing etc). Mine will run Inguz on just one of the cores, E.g. here inguz is linked to core 0 and not allowed to run on core 1 (on the right). In the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-30 Thread muski
Thanks. Reran DRC with the new RSSPL file. Will re-install and do some listening tests soon. muski -- muski muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-29 Thread muski
inguz;198107 Wrote: For DRC: Not quite, but I made the couple changes needed: here (http://inguzaudio.com/Data/RSSPL.txt). Edit the MCPointsFile= lines in your *.drc files to refer to this RSSPL.txt. For Acourate, I don't know, but I assume you'll be able to use one or other of these two

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-29 Thread muski
I noticed that the RSSPL.txt calibration file seems to start at 515Hz and go up from there. Elsewhere, I found a calibration file for a RS SPL that looks like it has calibration values from 7hz to 200hz. However, it only has two values per line, not three. It looks like this: 7.00-37.33

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-29 Thread inguz
Done. (The third column is phase, so I set those as zero) -- inguz inguz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29489

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-28 Thread inguz
SoftwireEngineer;197530 Wrote: Hi, I installed the Inguz plugin and followed all the instructions. But somehow, I feel the EQ is not making an effect at all. What could be the reason ? (I have checked the file types/decoders etc). The simple way to check whether the EQ processor is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-28 Thread inguz
muski;198045 Wrote: Indeed there is a calibration file available for the Analog Radio Shack SPL on the RPLusD sites. See: http://www.etfacoustic.com/support.html. I wonder if it is in a format that will work with either Acourate or DRC... For DRC: Not quite, but I made the couple changes

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-28 Thread SoftwireEngineer
Hugh, Looks like Room Correction was on by default. I switched that one off. Also, the flatness is set to 10, even though I dont see it in the EQ menu. Still 2.6GHz Celeron does not seem to be enough CPU or it could be the wireless. I will try to switch to my DuoCore Toshiba notebook and see if

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-27 Thread muski
Is it possible to get measurements using an SPL instead of a 'real' mic like the ECM8000? I have been looking at measurement sw such as Room EQ Wizard (http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/) and RPlusD/ETF (http://www.etfacoustic.com/RPlusDSite/index.html). Not sure if these are doing the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-27 Thread Mark Lanctot
muski;198007 Wrote: Not sure if these are doing the same thing as the Inguztools, but they both let you use a Radio Shack analog SPL meter as the mic (no preamp required either). I guess I am asking if I can either a) use an SPL with Audacity, or b) get useful measurements for the Inguz

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-27 Thread muski
Good news -- thanks for your response. Indeed there is a calibration file available for the Analog Radio Shack SPL on the RPLusD sites. See: http://www.etfacoustic.com/support.html. I wonder if it is in a format that will work with either Acourate or DRC... -- muski

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-26 Thread SoftwireEngineer
inguz;197601 Wrote: what do you see in the log.txt file? Inguz, This is what I have in the log file. This evaluation version will expire 11/1/2007 12:00:00 AM 20070423231915: 00:04:20:06:c2:2f Gain -16 dB 20070423231915: 00:04:20:06:c2:2f Tail 00:04:20:06:c2:2f 20070423231915:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-25 Thread SoftwireEngineer
Hi, I installed the Inguz plugin and followed all the instructions. But somehow, I feel the EQ is not making an effect at all. What could be the reason ? (I have checked the file types/decoders etc). -- SoftwireEngineer

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-25 Thread CFP
Maybe your room is perfect :) -- CFP Squeezebox 3 digital out Panasonic SA-XR57 Energy Veritas 2.4i CFP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6915 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2007-04-25 Thread inguz
what do you see in the log.txt file? -- inguz inguz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29489

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Inguz Audio tips and initial impressions

2006-11-07 Thread totoro
OK, I finally got it all set up, with some help from Inguz. The difference in sound could be characterized as night and day, with no exaggeration. I made a few stupid mistakes, which I think others probably have, as well. I'll list them here. If you don't make these mistakes, setting everything