*hifidan*: glad the Silflex worked out for you. It is a technically good
cable, all the important things are done properly and about as well as
they can be done. Some prefer fewer but larger diameter glass fibers,
that's pretty much the only real argument re other premium-constructed
types.
I do
Caad: I am afraid to open up and mess with my Touch's guts. I only
have one and can't get another for close to a reasonable price. I really
count on my Touch and value it a lot, wish I had got another, strictly
as a backup because I couldn't use two of them -at the time-, but now I
could... :(
IME the BDA-1's coaxial inputs sound significantly better than the
Toslink, with the Touch or anything else. Have used both, with varying
grades of coaxial and Toslink cables; you should use a quality one, but
don't have to get even close to ridiculous (e.g. Blue Jeans coaxial or
average glass
hifidan wrote:
Cfraser, I did the EDO update and I kept the TT3.0. I will do some
comparaison listening between the spdf and the toslink
and will let you known. Thanks for your comments .
Much appreciated.
I 100% understand why you didn't remove the TT3.0, as it's a bit of a
pain
^ Triode was responding to me there. I'm pretty sure I also had to
update the Touch's firmware to get the whole thing 96kHz to work
smoothly i.e. FLAC decoding on the server; your setup is correct for
that. It seems generally agreed that it's best to match the Touch FW and
LMS version as best as
^ This is not always so simple. I spent a lot of time with similar probs
about a year ago. Everything, and I mean everything, was set up
correctly if I had access to it (I'm not new to any of this stuff). As
somebody else said, the root problem turned out to be my PC's BIOS. You
should know that
^ Exactly; if the network interface is integrated on the MB, the BIOS is
what's controlling it. It was the growing demand/requirement for remote
corporate network management that caused a lot of manufacturers to fix
the WOL at the properly lowest levels of network interface, and not at
the
snoozer wrote:
and it works very well indeed !!. Just make sure you connect the
Touch via LAN instead of Wifi, otherwise you won´t have enough bandwidth
to stream 192Kb in PCM.
best regards
Pepe
Not sure if you were responding to me, but if so, yes I did get the
192/24 PCM streaming
donny619 wrote:
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I'm using the same DAC. I assume you're using S/PDIF from the Touch.
I tried the LMS nightly dated Jan. 13 and it wouldn't even play any of
the 192/24 FLAC test tracks I tried (2L demos) with decoding at the
server end. Never mind give 192/24 to the DAC via
I am using the last official release. Some of us were waiting for a
newer version that would reportedly allow us to stream 192/24 LPCM to
the Touch, rather than have the FLACs decoded by the Touch itself. I
vaguely recall that some beta (?) versions could already do this. Any
advice? Thanks.
^ Thanks Triode. Are you using a late nightly of 7.8 beta? Any caveats?
I don't really do any fancy or unusual things with my Touch, I just
stream LPCM from FLACs and internet radio.
cfraser's Profile:
^ Have you completely rebuilt your music library lately? Have you done a
music disk defrag lately?
I find the first one to be quite important for LMS. I do it whenever I
add a fair bit of stuff, seems to eliminate the bugs I got when I only
did a scan for changes.
The second one may be useful
Viventis wrote:
Thank you for the information. The specs of my Onkyo 809 say I have a
192Khz/24-bit Burr-Brown DAC.
This is what the DACs are capable of with 809 internal signals and
HDMI. It does not necessarily mean it will accept 192/24 signals via
S/PDIF though, unfortunately.
^ We are only trying to help you. Did you understand what that guy in
the link was saying? Now if you had asked about a quality USB DAC that
many have heard, maybe a W4S or even an Ayre (just 2 common examples),
then you would have got lots of encouraging responses. Or maybe consider
one of the
^ Cool link. It sounds MUCH worse in every way than what's built into
the Touch, so why bother? If somebody is new to external DACs, they
should know that there are plenty of them in the under-few-hundred-$
range that *are* worse than what's in the Touch. External does not equal
better,
BodieBill wrote:
Two questions:
(1) Can this be a problem with the DAC (in spite of its 24/192
compatibility), or am I doing something wrong with the app
installation/settings?
(2) Should I de-install the app or not? I am asking because I remember
there was mention in this thread that
What do large etc. mean numerically, as implemented, in the buffer
option settings? Somehow I thought we'd be able to set it manually or
choose among some specific size options (as a subset of each main
option). Not saying it'll matter here with EDO, but it certainly does
matter with some other
For pretty high quality internet radio sound, try Radio Paradise OGG
192kbps, or their 192kbps MP3 (get album pics/song title with this, but
not with OGG which IMO sounds a tad nicer). You'll need to use LMS for
the OGG.
Are you using the analog outputs? If so, maybe you got the R and L
crossed?
Sorry for the dumb Q, but how do we tell what EDO version we're running?
It seems to update whenever I select that option, so it doesn't check
what I already have. I'm just curious if I have the latest version, the
server problem had me wondering about that. Thanks.
Well, I also use 500x500 art which I scan myself. I embed the art in
every single track it applies to, so if I copy tracks here or there at
home I don't have to be concerned. I limit the size of art to 30KB
usually, 40KB if it's complicated, 60KB if it's really complicated
(not common with
Why is it that people always have to have ONE answer to everything? Must
be something we're kind of taught or brought up with (I won't go to the
R-word place), there's certainly no logic to it or demonstration of it
in nature.
I mean really, how trivially simple and fast is it to
Mnyb wrote:
I do understand that a screensaver such as now playing is not expected
to work wo server :) but showing the clock ?
If there is no server or internet connection the SBT can't know the
time, so it doesn't display it. This is the scenario of powering on
without that access, for
cfraser wrote:
Has anybody mentioned (or even found) that when set up for USB DAC that
the now playing display for internet radio can get totally out of sync
with what's playing? The audio is correct though.
Triode wrote:
Don't see what would cause this as the changes are completely
beetof wrote:
Yes, smoother, quieter, more relax, I recognize that. But did you notice
a difference in attack (of, say, a piano)?
Sorry, I couldn't say, not something I specifically compared, I don't
listen to much piano either. I can say that lack of transient response
is one of the main
^ This why I suggested something cheap to test the waters, before going
way out.
There is a fairly well-known DAC that is generally used with battery
power. I am not the only one who thought it sounded best with a
switching PS over a linear PS or different types of batteries (JIC it
made a
Seems to work with the Bryston BDA-1 DAC. Without the no-hub
workaround.
I am also happy that your app doesn't kill the ability of the SBT to
charge a PS3 controller lol [I think every device in my HT room has USB
port(s), yet only the PS3 and SBT will charge them].
I cannot see why anyone would
SBGK wrote:
Also, has anyone compared the quality of your mods via usb dac and via
sp/dif to dac ie if I get an asynchronous usb dac will it sound even
better ?
You cannot do that at this point. You must choose the USB DAC (or the
USB input) and leave it connected/selected. Though I read
It happened to me too. I usually have my screen disabled, but when I
turned the screen on the other day, no clock in standby (this is the
only time I have a screensaver enabled). It was there when I updated
to 7.7.2, but may not have survived the first subsequent power cycle.
I also noticed when
^ I'd say it's generally smoother, and a bit quieter. It has been so
long since I did my PS comparisons though, I can't remember the details
right now, but I did post them in one of the Audiophile forum linear
PS threads (maybe look for one I started, I'd guess last summer).
Background sonic
What's John's opinion of multiple regulators in series?
For my convenience I built my linear PS with stuff I had. Hammond 4.8A
dual-bobbin xfmr (I really like them!), Schottky diodes, LT1086 variable
reg, Panny FCs. No choke (see [ ] below), but resonance control on the
xfmr. That is the main
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