Anecdotal report:
Yesterday, I heard a short burst of white noise as I was browsing
around Live365 stations. Some Live365 stations defintely sound better
than others (quality-wise), so I would not be surprised if the bitrate
was changing between stations as I was browsing. I think I remember
This problem occur in my set-up too:
SB3 SPDIF Coax Out»Canare Imp, transformer
»Merging Sphinx DAC AES IN»
Sphinx AES Out
»DCX 2496 Crossover»Zacom Console »power amp.
Strangely the headphone output is OK,
I must turn off the Sphinx DAC to get rid of the problem.
This is the generated log just
Cleve Wrote:
Sean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I had been listening to an internet
radio station. Not sure whether they were 44.1 or 48 khz tracks.
I experienced the same problem yesterday. The device was connected to a
fairly basic HiFi system using the RCA output and suddenly the audio
This has also happened to me once, whilst listening to web radio, via
Alien BBC.
Pulsating noise which was way, way louder than the actual output from
the BBC source. lasted about 3-4 secs then went back to normal.
SB2 connected to Denon micro system via analogue RCA connectors, with
the SB2
If they died after 3 months, you should send them back and see if the
slim guys can perform an autopsy.
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What do you think I did - kept them and just bought new ones...?? ;-]
I sent them back to the vendor I purchased from in the UK, who I assume
sent them back to the UK distributor and back to Slim Devices
themselves, eventually.
If only I'd had the sense to take a note of the serial #'s before
This happened to me on my SB2 connected to my SlimServer Locally. My
collection is all MP3's and on a wired LAN. I couldn't say what song it
was unfortunately as I too, lept from my chair and dove for the power.
Radar442 wrote:
Cleve Wrote:
Sean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I
me too..using AlienBBC. the white noise repeated every 3mins or so.
I set a debug going which captured nothing of note as far as I can
tell.
If this happens again, any suggestions as to which debug settings I
should log?
JP
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seanadams Wrote:
Cleve can you tell me if your playlist had a mix of 44.1 and 48 KHz
tracks?
Sean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I had been listening to an internet
radio station. Not sure whether they were 44.1 or 48 khz tracks.
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Cleve
Two-channel system;
McIntosh MC2205 amplifier
seanadams Wrote:
The CPU is getting out-of-sync with the DAC and s/pdif interfaces - it's
unclear why at this point as we've identified no way to reproduce this,
or any unit that's done it more than once. Your call if you want to
send it in for replacement - there isn't enough data on this
Using the preamp volume control should give a good additional degree of
safety as this will limit the output level in the DAC itself - it will
also give the main volume control are more useable range. Still it's
bad practice in any system to feed an amp that can overpower the
speakers with no
You've said before that you don't recommend connecting a squeezebox
directly to an amp. I think I must have misunderstood this. I have
both my squeezeboxes connected to my integrated amp via analog
interconnects. How else am I meant to connect them, short of buying
pre-amps.
I've never had
seanadams Wrote:
Using the preamp volume control should give a good additional degree of
safety as this will limit the output level in the DAC itself - it will
also give the main volume control are more useable range. Still it's
bad practice in any system to feed an amp that can overpower
jonheal Wrote:
Sean (or someone), can you please tell me where I find the SqueezeBox's
Preamp Volume Control setting? Thanks.
Sean covered it in this post:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=55632
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mflint
seanadams Wrote:
The CPU is getting out-of-sync with the DAC and s/pdif interfaces - it's
unclear why at this point as we've identified no way to reproduce this,
or any unit that's done it more than once. Your call if you want to
send it in for replacement - there isn't enough data on this
Thank you. That's the clarification I was hoping for. I couldn't
really see how the squeezebox could suddenly make my integrated amp go
so loud that it would start to damage things. I don't think I ever
turn my amp up to even the half way point, so I'm hoping I'm in no
danger.
Max
fuzzyT
Unfortunately, with my older vintage gear, I had really enjoyed the
convenience of the remote control volume control. To use this, I had
turned the gain up on my preamp so that if the volume on the Squeezebox
was maxed, I'd be using nearly all the 200 watt per channel output of my
McIntosh 2205
Cleve Wrote:
Unfortunately, with my older vintage gear, I had really enjoyed the
convenience of the remote control volume control. To use this, I had
turned the gain up on my preamp so that if the volume on the Squeezebox
was maxed, I'd be using nearly all the 200 watt per channel output of
jonheal wrote:
Cleve Wrote:
Therefore, if the Squeezebox has this electronic brain fart, the
potential for equipment damage still exists. The only work-around -
defeat the SB3 volume control and go back to the old fashioned way of
getting up, walking over, and turning up/down the volume.
I
fuzzyT Wrote:
jonheal wrote:
Cleve Wrote:
Therefore, if the Squeezebox has this electronic brain fart, the
potential for equipment damage still exists. The only work-around -
defeat the SB3 volume control and go back to the old fashioned way
of
getting up, walking over, and turning
jonheal wrote:
This white noise issue has occurred so infrequently, I'm wondering if
it is an established fact that the SB3's Preamp Volume Control will
indeed limit the noise level if this problem occurs?
Hard to know. Would need to be able to test. As this isn't yet a
reproducible
jonheal Wrote:
This white noise issue has occurred so infrequently, I'm wondering if
it is an established fact that the SB3's Preamp Volume Control will
indeed limit the noise level if this problem occurs?
I'm 99.9% certain it will, because this is reported to affect both the
DAC and s/pdif
Cleve can you tell me if your playlist had a mix of 44.1 and 48 KHz
tracks?
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fuzzyT Wrote:
i believe that what sean is saying is that it may be unwise to directly
feed the analog outs of the SB directly into the unattenuated inputs of
a _power_ amplifier. particularly if that power amplifier, running at
full output, is capable driving the connected speakers to
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