kcl;182826 Wrote: > > You mentioned -"so I use streaming audio via Slimserver and 44.1 kS/s > into an upsampler".- Do you mean through a Squeezebox or Transporter? > If so, what upsampler do you use and/or recommend? >
I did use a Sqeezebox first but the Transporter wasn't available (or even known) at the time so I eventually gave up on the SB3 because it couldn't handle external clocking (and balanced connections). I changed over to using a professional soundcard (a Lynx Two) which has all the clocking etc I was looking for. Transporter handles all this - but I didn't know that one was being developed (1-2 years ago). Then I used my SB3 as display, because it looks so good. I used a SoftSqueeze in the HTPC into the sound card and synchronized that player to my SB3 where I controlled the music. Drawback with that is that the synch isn't very reliable and I lost the gapless feature of my FLAC music. So in the end I left the SB3 completely and I now use a little handheld (IPAQ) as remote. I think I prefer this over a Transporter anyway, I have got used to having all this information, including a nice picture of the actual CD playing. The upsampler I have is a dCS Purcell. Mine is a Firewire version, but if you haven't got more dCS equipment, the FW is of little use to you. You can get an older Purcell - which is exactly as good audio-wise. It will still nicely re-sample your 44.1 (or 48 or 96 or whatever) to 192 kS/S (or 176, or 96, or whatever). These older Purcells can be found at around USD 1500 second hand (Ebay, Audiogone) and they are very much value for money. One advantage above the actual upsampling, is that it also re-creates the clock. This re-clocking is very accurate and it does improve on the sound even from something as good as SqueezeBox (and I presume, even from a Transporter). If you can find a Purcell with word clock in/out connectors (some of the older purcells had no word clock in I think - you need to investigate that in detail for each machine as they can have been upgraded) - you can experiment with clocking quite a lot. I currently have no proper master clock (a dCS Verona is on my wish list, but I refuse to fork out for a new and second hand ones are scarce). The second best option I've found is to use the clock from my soundcard to daisy-chain around the rest of the equipment as an almost-master-clock. It takes a lot of experimenting though. When I used the clock from my DAC as master (which would be the natural choice), I got funny effects (sound fluttering on certain sample frequencies but not all). In theory, I can see no reason for this but I have assumed it has to do with my daisy-chaining (clock out from DAC, into next thing and then out from that into next etc). The daisy-chain works better using the soundcard clock, I get very good sound but it does lose the synch once every half hour or so with a crack sound, silence for a few seconds and then re-synch. I can live with that because the sound is better in between than if I had not used this quasi-central clock. 'The art of streaming lossless audio to hifi equipment' (http://www.lossless-music.net) -- CarlOtto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CarlOtto's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3581 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32976 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
