Triode wrote:
Let's keep these discussions on tweaking to the audiophile forum please.
Odd, triode, because YOUR APP IS A TWEAK!
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I'm not really sure it is for you - its main target was usb audio and
192k support. By default it won't do anything differnet from the output
routing function of TT3 - all it will do is send the audio to the
digital output and not the analog output. This bypasses a software
Triode wrote:
Please post your feedback on this thread - I would like to create a list
of USB DACs which are known to work with it, we started that on the
experiment thread, but I think it would be cleaner to maintain a list
here.
I haven't installed your applet yet, but I do have a
Triode wrote:
I'm not really sure it is for you - its main target was usb audio and
192k support. By default it won't do anything differnet from the output
routing function of TT3 - all it will do is send the audio to the
digital output and not the analog output. This bypasses a software
. It will cost you less than a cup of
coffee, and the results may delight you. If in the end you don't detect
any difference, no big deal -- you're only short $1.29
Forgot to take your meds this morning?
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be quite easily and cheaply improved upon. Which is what I did, and the
results are very easy to hear.
So whichever it is, the fact remains that one can reap benefits by
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It's been very quiet recently- have you been on holiday?
No, the reason it's quiet is because I've upgraded my PSU. Much less
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Anyone else experience a buzzing from the supplied wall-wart that comes
with the Touch?
No buzzing at all, just in general more 'dirty' sound when using the
PSU that ships with the Touch. Upgrading that PSU clears up the
soundstage.
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Phil Leigh;636860 Wrote:
I believe there was a lunar eclipse last night...
You're wrong, it was on June 15.
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outboard DAC -- no change.
Finally, unplugged my Touch, plugged it back in, and voila! the sound
returned to normal. Full bodied, sweet bass, rich midrange, silky, airy
highs.
So what gives? Why did Touch end up sounding so toxic all of a sudden?
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or run Soundcheck's toolbox and save $3,000.
Or sell your gear and join the freedom fighters against Ghadafi.
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to playlists, and haven't looked back since. I just
keep maintaining my playlists, and let the baked-in tags take care of
the rest.
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tests are undeniable.
I would have to say that of all the Soundcheck's mods, this one offers
the most dramatic improvements in terms of sound quality. If you were
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generalization. Many cases share many common traits,
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order to continue our progress without being blindsided.
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. Something's
odd. Is it that the .cue is messed up? (how do I inspect that file
manually?)
Thanks for the tip, is XLD a free download?
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I've purchased a CD that got delivered as a single FLAC file plus a .cue
file. I would like to parse that large single FLAC file into its
constituent tracks. What's the best way to do it, so that I can play
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. And in the Music folder, it shows as one big FLAC file.
I'll rescan, and see if mysqueezebox managed to sort things out using
the cue file.
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Phil Leigh;612226 Wrote:
These folks are almost certainly one diskette short of a full install...
You mean floppy?
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a pretty bleak picture. I'm
sure that right now you have about 1,800 pounds of canned beans stashed
in your bunker. Do you have enough ammunition to last you while the
zombies are roaming the earth? When are you finally going to make that
call and run for the hills?
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households to store the backup of their precious
digital media in the cloud, with a reputable vendor (or, with a select
few reputable vendors).
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with maximum fidelity.
Thanks!
Run, don't walk, and get Touch. Touch is the best deal in high quality
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client's data. Read their S3 service level agreement -- it
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becomes: am I going to keep that digitized
music on my crash-prone HD, or in the cloud?
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etc. to PCM on the fly, before streaming PCM
to the Touch?
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some inane shit.
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the 24 bit/96 kHz FLAC and the same
FLAC downsampled to 24 bit/44.1 kHz.
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applying the 'screen off' mod, my Touch screen is indeed absolutely
black!)
Alas, the glare still persists, and despite the mod, I still find
myself wiping the screen off with the supplied black microfiber cloth
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4. Finally, should I install Linux/Ubuntu, or some safe version of
Windows on this appliance?
I know these are a lot to ask, but I'm hoping some experts on this
forum could guide me in my efforts to create a music serving
appliance.
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Better power supply could also help. I know, soon somebody will write
that a stadard ps is good enough :)
I agree, however buying $500 PSU for a $300 player somehow feels wrong.
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To these tight chested people I say a very loud and clear fuck you!.
That's high self-esteem for ya!
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to learn whether there are any audible differences between the two
OSs.
P.S. Earlier today I got quite upset when I found out that my dog
chewed through all my punched cards, so now I'm forced to go back to
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superior
digital streaming sound quality ever since I've switched to the system
operating on a batch of punched cards. Try it, you'll never look back!
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in the low columns (say,
between 00 and 09).
COBOL carries so much processing overhead it's not even funny. It
muddies the sound so much, that I don't know if it's opera that's
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him, and that the mod worked! (and
believe me, that old mutt is not that easy to fool;)
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*SOUNDCHECK:* Confirmed! For W7 and Vista
Good Lord! Just when you thought all OS 'sound' the same! ;)
Guido F.
Can anyone compare the same between Windows and OSX?
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be the
risks? Had the Microsoft OS matured a bit, and is it now less
susceptible to go bonkers than it was 5 years ago?
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that something is not possible before you give it a try.
If we continue in this idiotically scholastic fashion, pretty soon
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demonstrate huge differences between these two configurations, I will
remain completely unimpressed. Why? Because, to me, it means absolutely
nothing. If I can't hear it, I'm not buying it, period.
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to shoulder with many high
end digital transports. This incredible digital transport needs to be
paired with a high quality DAC.
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improvements. Such as
with this Soundcheck mods case.
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odd bottom
shape, and there doesn't seem to be a way of supporting it properly
from the bottom.
Has anyone tried these kinds of isolation/energy dissipation devices on
the Touch? Any feedback/reviews? How did you go about installing these
cones/blocks?
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likes being told what they are hearing is wrong and they are
foolish, controlling and manipulative...you know?
Same as no one likes to be accused of imagining things they can clearly
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something
special then;)
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Your analogy is flawed.
But lets keep at the beer table (us three - Klaus, magiccarpetride and
me) and see it from my perspective:
Me: Hi Magiccarpetride, Hi Klaus, how are you doing ?
Klaus: Quite well - look - here I've got two pints of beer. In THIS
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Mnyb;605380 Wrote:
If the digital output does not change it can't be any real difference
...
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As opposed to 'imaginary difference'.
What is meant by 'imaginary difference'?
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One that you think you're going to hear, and therefore you hear it, even
though it doesn't exist.
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Because you're imagining it.
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trying to manipulate and control you. Trust your own gut! Distrust
'authorities' and 'establishment'.
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' bureaucratic expertise.
What really matters is the human aspect of it. Machines and
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wobbly state.
Thanks Soundcheck, I'd say of all the mods you've given us thus far,
this one made the biggest difference in the sound quality on my system!
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on this forum so insecure? Why can't they trust
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But you ARE wasting your time on this forum! See the idiocy here?
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this, and hear for themselves. No need to
measure anything, or torture yourself with stupid double-blind ABX
tests. Just sit back and bask in the incredible clarity of the newly
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the
clarity of a modded Touch; because of that gratitude, many of us will
donate to his PayPal account).
Those of us who are not particularly appreciative should just ignore
the entire affair. Please be civil and be polite:)
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the other beers?
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a 3D TV without the 3D glasses. Switch to the modded Touch, and
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completely disqualifies the
'objectivity' of a double-blind ABX test.
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for giving us the ability to achieve such
staggering improvements in the sound quality.
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I'm using OSX 10.4 and can't seem to find the squeezecenter application
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Is there a way to examine the logs produced by Touch to determine which
songs I've played yesterday?
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what songs you played when.
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'), and voila! the Duet controller was able
to get in once again.
This is puzzling to me. Is there a logical explanation for this kind of
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remains in idle. Pressing pause and then right after
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Does the Touch actually play the music when the controller says its
playing? In other words is it just a Touch DISPLAY issue or is it a
PLAY issue?
John S.
Just a display issue; the music continues playing without any hiccups.
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Is there a proper way to reboot Touch (stop and restart)) without having
to do a cold restart (i.e. unplug it from the power supply unit)?
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is not considered
intrusive? What's the difference between that hardware reset and a
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I had a similar set up in that I replaced a Squeezebox Receiver with a
Touch, using the digital out on both devices into an external DAC (the
DAC in my Headroom Desktop amp). I completely agree with MCR
(magiccarpetride) that the differences between the two
when it will cost you more to store your
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. The next thing you know, you go out on a date with that
gorgeous person, only to find out she's not that great looking (upon a
closer look).
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What were you using previously as a transport to the DAC? I find it a
little hard to believe that the Touch is _that_ much better, unless the
old transport really stunk.
I was using Squeezebox Duet.
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less things on the menu to worry about.
Some people can't hear the difference in the sound quality when
presented with such tweaks. But then again, these are the people who
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able to hear previously hidden nuances on songs such as Glass
Onion etc. Flip back to forcing the Touch to deal with the FLAC
natively, and all those nuances get masked by the noise introduced by
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remasters).
I have ripped my entire library to AIFF (I'm on the Mac), so my
question is: are there any differences between AIFF and WAV when
playing through the Touch? Is WAV the only native format that Touch can
do knee-jerk, or is AIFF also hard-wired into Touch?
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AIFF is the same thing as WAV, it just has the bits flipped. They are
the same and both are supported.
Thanks Andy, that's a big relief for me. For a while there I was
thinking oh no, what if I have to re-rip my entire collection to
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-perfect signal from the
Touch into my Caiman DAC, as this DAC is proving to be phenomenally
musical.
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All I get when I go to order it is the click here to be notified
option. How can one purchase Touch in Canada?
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different in terms of just receiving, buffering, and pushing digital
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