Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-06-01 Thread mrw
rbl wrote: > TBH I am a little surprised that the effect is so pronounced and am not > quite sure exactly what is going on, esp as I am doing a lot of > averaging! > I can’t help you there, I have no practical experience. It looks as if your process brings out some kind of low frequency end eff

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-06-01 Thread rbl
mrw wrote: > Perhaps your sampling frequency steps are too large to accurately > capture energy per octave at the low end. Also seems to show up with > your White noise plotted against octave. Good point! The FFT size and sampling frequency were set to 4k and 44.1kHz respectively (spatial reso

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-06-01 Thread mrw
rbl wrote: > > However pink noise and the "Octave" X-axis gives flat down to 500Hz (as > expected) but then rising below 500Hz. Perhaps your sampling frequency steps are too large to accurately capture energy per octave at the low end. Also seems to show up with your White noise plotted against

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-06-01 Thread Jeff07971
Glad you found the error, it would have been an extremely weird problem if not ! Jeff *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLite-X,PiCorePlayer x3 *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 8.0 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U3 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSw

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-06-01 Thread rbl
Apologies for not being clear in the OP and for the late response. I had to find time to do more tests. The upper half of the screen shot is the waveform and can be ignored. The lower half is the spectral analysis. Green is the SB3's headphone output, and red is the phono output. My understandin

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-05-24 Thread cliveb
I don't know how to interpret the screen shots you've included. What are the two plots? Is the top plot the waveform and the bottom plot the spectral analysis? What is the difference between the red and green traces? If the bottom plot is a frequency analysis, and you're using pink noise, then wh

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 Spectral analysis shows +9dB at 30Hz on phono and coax outputs

2020-05-22 Thread rbl
I connected the various SB3 outputs to my PC via a Tascam US-122L USB audio interface. The PC acted as a spectral analyser, the relevant results are in the image below (each Y division = 3dB). What I do not understand is why the bass response increases by 9dB at 20-30Hz on the phono and coax outpu