Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-08 Thread Robin Bowes
Andrew L.Weekes wrote: -However, the thing about an opto/mechanical (CD) transport is that you have to deal with how well the, uh, transport itself is working - and that's a real-world error-prone process involving light, motors, and quite fragile media. I have several real-life, perfectly reprod

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-08 Thread Robin Bowes
Malcolm Wotton wrote: So in summary, the digital (network) link between the PC and SB2 and the digital link from SB2 to DAC both suffer from jitter, however in the PC/SB2 link the network speed and protocols allow errors to be identified and corrected. The approach taken for identifying and corre

RE: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-08 Thread Malcolm Wotton
Aylwin wrote: > I would be willing to accept Mike's -"good enough"- but I have trouble > with -"it's only a matter of having no errors"-. However, I think one > key point from the definition above is, -"The amount of allowable > jitter depends greatly on the application"-. I agree, and possibly

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-03 Thread Pat Farrell
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 17:43 -0700, kronos wrote: > earthbased Wrote: > > Get a Kuro Box. It uses 17W power and is very quiet. > thanks for the tip Dan, do i take your reply as a NO to my 1 - question I'm not Dan, but part of the confusion may be that you asked if you need "a PC" and the answer i

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: To right. The thought of all those hundreds of hours... ugh! $200 for a Ooops, call me pedantic but I did of course mean "Too right". R. -- http://robinbowes.com ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: I think your approach is fine. I dispense with the backup disk, and consider my 800+ CDs as backup. But I would rather not have to reextract and recompress them To right. The thought of all those hundreds of hours... ugh! $200 for a back up disk sounds cheap at twice the pri

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: "SB2" and "Audiophile" go together?

2005-06-03 Thread Pat Farrell
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:58 -0700, rich spengel wrote: > > I have some thoughts on music storage. I am ripping my collection to > FLAC at minimum compression, and it is clear that > about 1000 albums will fit on my 300GB ($150) hard drive. A minor nit, the flac compression control is for control