My turn... my name is above. I've been in the recording business for 35+ years spending a lot of time in the late 70s/early 80s cutting master lacquers (LPs) in Hollywood and Burbank. I also spent thousands of hours behind recording consoles recording every possible type of music recordable. I've worked on all types of classic analog gear in my career and navigated to mostly digital in the late 80s.
I quit doing music sessions in the late 80s and began focusing on post-production for Radio/TV & Film. The clients were much nicer and the hours were a lot easier on the marriage. I'm also a musician/composer/arranger where I used to score music for Radio/TV & Film projects that would come into our facility... mostly using MIDI, but with GREAT sounding samples. So, my listening environment at home is a little different than what we have at our current studios, but I do have Tannoy controlroom monitors in a 5.1 config. I've had a Transporter for a little over a month in the livingroom, and an SB3 (a bit longer than the TP) in the master bedroom feeding a pair of Genelec 2029b powered monitors via SPDIF. I've got a good selection of DVD-Audio and SACD discs and have digital and surround inputs available on my system to 'verify' surround mixes I'm currently working on. My current Slim server is a refurbished Mac MINI 1.83GHz Core Duo (Intel) with 2GB RAM and an external 500GB FW drive. It sits on a shelf in the guest bedroom with nothing but power and an ethernet cable going into it. I access it remotely using TimbuktuPro and rip files to it by mounting the 500GB drive via the network on my G5. Once the tunes are ripped (I use Apple's AAC @ 256kbps VBR), Slim rescans the iTunes library files and I'm ready to stream. I initially had big issues with syncing and hiccups between the TP and SB3, but did some network testing and discovered the SB3 was much happier by limiting its bandwidth to 320k, mainly due to the wireless signal strength upstairs. Because of my profession, I'd rather not comment on the effects of BLIND TESTING. Music is such a personal, subjective thing. No one else can tell you what's good or what's bad because you have the option of making your own choice!! Thanks, SlimDevices, for an incredible option to re-familiarize myself with my huge music library!! -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30141 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
