Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best server solution for sound quality?
philchillbill wrote: > Are your Word documents any different if you load them from a Samsung > SSD vs a SanDisk USB Stick? :rolleyes: I don't care enough to find it right now, but somewhere out there is A Very Serious Article wherein someone claims audible differences depending on the brand name of the hard drive storing the bits. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114616 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hahahahahahahahaha
Apesbrain wrote: > If you've seen the inside of the NAD, you'd know it's more than a RPi in > a box. For some reason, I find that weirdly comforting. I guess I'm happy that that they aren't quite THAT dishonest. Apesbrain wrote: > What they were thinking offering -any- gear at that price point is > beyond me, but it seems they know that now. It probably bugs me more than normal people because I like DTS and AC-3. So I'd just be using the plain old digital out, completely bypassing any of the alleged super wonderful improvements. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hahahahahahahahaha
http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NAM502 "The hardware of the M50.2 includes the latest generation of low power, super high performance ARM processors. These have more computing power than a PC from just a few years ago, yet rthey un cool and do not require noisy fans." Would I be completely nuts to be suspicious that someone may have put a Pi in $3900 case? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.
Mnyb wrote: > That's solvable for RG tags simply don't have them in these files that > fixes it for LMS where you can turn of this completely. Yes, in LMS it's not a problem at all. I use RG on PCM and not on DTS or AC-3 and life is good. I was just commenting that I'd be irked if Roon calculated RG on that material with no ability to turn it off. Maybe this is another one of those audiophile things where No Serious Listener Would Ever Want More Than Two Speakers. :) atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106933 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.
Julf wrote: > Considering DSD might have been a good idea in the 90's, we might now > let it rest in peace... I don't really care one way or the other about DSD, I just like discrete surround music and much of that is only available as DSD. It's on my mind more at the moment because I'm ripping my SACDs via one of the naughty methods that technically isn't supposed to exist. Since LMS can convert it to PCM on the fly, I'm leaving it as DSD. LMS can't deal with the surround DSD, of course, but Foobar2000 can convert even the 5.1 to PCM on the fly. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106933 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.
ralphpnj wrote: > 1) is the replaygain defeatable since I don't use it nor do I intend to > use it any time soon. It would be a disaster for those of us with lots of DTS and AC-3 in our libraries, too. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106933 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.
pablolie wrote: > ... Let me also state, I would so hope that, over the next years, > someone picks up a next gen SB development... In my dreams, I envision > an SB OLED Touch v2 that offers... > > - HDMI output to send liner notes to TV And HDMI to output gapless 5.1 FLAC and DSD! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106933 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MUSINGS: Meditations on the limitations of hearing & listening.
ralphpnj wrote: > About the worst effect that audiophile silliness has had in the consumer > audio marketplace is the sales of Monster cables (all the other high end > audio cable manufacturers have no presence in the consumer audio > marketplace) and surge protectors. I used to have my doubts about surge protectors...until I had a surge. It's been 20 years or more now, so I'm not sure I remember everything that got cooked:' 2-Shortwave radios 1-Scanner 2-VCRs 1-Receiver 1-Clothes dryer 1-Coffee maker 1-CD player ?-Cheap clocks It was weird and confusing...I came home from work to find that some things worked, some didn't. I thought I had some bizarre power failure before something finally tipped me off...it might have been the visible scorching inside the receiver. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104401 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] generating free energy by using chrystal
ralphpnj wrote: > > If I sound overly pessimistic it's because the history mankind has shown > mankind to be really, really good at two things: > > 1) killing each other > > 2) turning abundance into scarcity 3) Making babies at a rate that provides fuel for 1) and exacerbates 2). atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104207 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I need a new turntable. Suggestions.
Archimago wrote: The Sony PS-X series with Biotracer arms are nice machines! I was looking for one locally last year but couldn't find any in good shape :(. I was a KID when I bought that thing...it's got to be 35 years ago now. It spent significant time in the shop after a few years but has been wonderful since (fingers crossed). I worry that no one will be able to work on it when the inevitable need eventually arises. I've also got a small, cheap linear tracking Technics SL-Q6 that sounds surprisingly good. I'd love to have a PS-X800, but they seem to go for $1,000 or more and would have the same service issues. Archimago wrote: Yes, check out a USB ADC if you can / curious. Noise level extremely low these days although your Roland R-05 I assume is already excellent. Also the Roland's price is great for a 24/96 ADC already! It probably is the price that makes me wonder if I can do better. I'm falling victim to the It cost less than my car, it can't possibly be any good! syndrome. :) One thing I'm really having shoved in my face lately is how frustrating analog could be. I just transferred a nice 7-1/2 IPS reel from near the end of the pre-recorded days when they really sounded good. The underlying sound quality is very nice indeed...but apparently something went wrong during the duplication and it's full of obvious wow. And now I've come to realize that my cassette deck is apparently running slow...or, more accurately, is now running slower than it used to. I don't know if it's wrong now or was wrong prior to its last trip to the shop...for all I know, the shop corrected a long-running problem, but now I can't play back decades of tapes accurately. I've experimented with digital speed correction and found it OK on what was a pretty bad recording to begin with, I don't know if it will still sound good on something more demanding. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I need a new turntable. Suggestions.
Pascal Hibon wrote: I can only say that my vinyl rips (recorded with my TC interface and Ableton) sound exactly the same as the vinyl. That is, as long as I didn't run it through 'clickrepair' (http://www.clickrepair.net/), which I only use when the record has a lot of pops and clicks. But I have no drop outs or anything. Everything is computer based these days. Ableton, Pro Tools, and many other software based solutions are very popular and are taking over the hardware mixers and recorders. I should have been clear that I really just use the Roland for the initial capture. The more or less cassette deck like interface and ease of connecting to any arbitrary component makes it easy to use. But I digitize vinyl (three turntables including one just for 78s), cassettes and reels, so it's much easier for me to move the little recorder around than the playback components. Once the initial capture has been made, I immediately copy the WAV to the computer to make it pretty. I'm also a fan of ClickRepair, though I've learned the hard way that you have to listen very closely to what it's doing. Sometimes it's so perfect it's almost like black magic, other times it wipes out as much useful signal as noise. I can't tell the difference between my captures and the records either (well, thanks to cleanup, sometimes the captures are better!) but I was curious if anyone with better ears than mine has any complaints with the standalone devices. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I need a new turntable. Suggestions.
d6jg wrote: I must have started in about 2009. The initial results were indeed iffy. Largely due to the PCs onboard soundcard. When I moved to USB soundcard the results improved massively. I've noticed noise at the analog output even on a relatively new computer. I solved that with a cheap USB to S/PDIF device, though it resamples everything to 48k. d6jg wrote: That said a lot has to do with TT setup and the condition of cartridge, styli and the records themselves. Ancient Sony PS-X75 with a brand new Audio-Technica AT440MLa. :) Maybe I should take a look at external USB stuff again just for fun. Thanks to everyone for the responses! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] I need a new turntable. Suggestions.
I'm curious if anyone has compared recordings made via their computers with something along the lines of a Roland R-05. My first attempts at digitizing were done in 1998 using a computer and were disastrous...too many dropped samples. I know that things have improved dramatically since then, but I've never tried again, finding it easier first to use a standalone CD recorder and later the Zoom H2 and now Roland R-05. I've heard lots of complaints about computers generating noise, yet it seems like the computer route is how the serious people do their digitizing. I've found the little standalone recorders very easy to use and, to my ears, they sound good. I capture and post-process at 24/96, then use SoX to downsample the finalized versions to 16/44.1. I also keep the raw files archived to Blu-ray in case I need to go back and fix something (which has definitely happened). Am I going to wake up some day and suddenly hate all my captures when I finally hear whatever sonic disaster I've apparently been missing all this time? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bootleg Recordings: Soundboard versus Audience
ralphpnj wrote: Gary I believe that you are correct and that is my understanding of the label pre-FM in that it was a live recording made for FM broadcast but the pre-FM version is one that is taken from the broadcast source (either a direct soundboard feed or a tape made from the soundboard) rather one that was recorded from the actual FM broadcast. I have a couple of original King Biscuit Flower Hour reels and consider them pre-FM for exactly the reason you state. ralphpnj wrote: I also have heard several very good sounding matrix recordings. There are some interesting multichannel ones out there that place one source in the front and other in the rear. One thing that fascinates me about some audience recordings is that they may not be all that great in a standard objective sense but what they lack in technical quality they make up for in ambience. I'm in the middle of Pink Floyd's 1970 show at Pepperland in San Rafael...it's certainly not a bad recording by any means, but no one will rush to officially release it. I just love the sound of it, though...well, maybe not when some genius' baby starts shrieking during Atom Heart Mother... atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103920 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl
Gandhi wrote: DETECTION dBpoweramp CueTools can also detect pre-emphasis. Just to make it more confusing, the flag can be (IIRC) in either the TOC or subcode. dBpoweramp and EAC detect one but not the other. I've got a Japanese black label pressing of The Dark Side of the Moon (one of the first CDs I ever bought, circa January 1985). dBpoweramp says there's no pre-emphasis, but CueTools says there is. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Moved to Squeezebox way of things... best strategy for my Hires/ DSD/ ISO files?
Wombat wrote: Unfortunately using higher compression adds slightly more stress on the Transporter that was imho false advertised. On a PC the small increase in decoding is hardly measurable but for the CPU and its decoder code with the Transporter it is on the edge. This was also an issue in the early days of the Touch. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103125 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl
pablolie wrote: i wonder if it's legal to start a public library of art cover and booklets, or if music companies would come after it. http://www.albumartexchange.com - just covers and no booklets, though. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?
I've got a dedicated computer in the living room that I turn on when I want to play multichannel DVD-A rips. Since I'm running Windows, I also have to keep the monitor on. Definitely not optimal, but I have yet to hear of any other way to do it that works as reliably. As for encapsulating DTS and AC-3 in a FLAC container, the spdifconvert.py script + DVD Decrypter used to work perfectly for me but at some point I started getting gaps when using it for AC-3. I've since started using AudioMuxer (free!) which is easier to work with and (so far, anyway) hasn't given me any gaps. I'm not sure why people feel the need to answer this question with I don't like it though I suppose I'm just as guilty for whining about that. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102992 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?
ralphpnj wrote: I believe that in my previous post (#10 above) I outlined why I don't think that multi-channel audio (and to a lesser extent, video) is at the present time basically useless. And that's fine, you don't have to like multichannel music (or anything else, for that matter). But when someone asks How can I..? it seems pointless to respond with a version of Who cares? To me, it's no different from responding to I have one Beethoven FLAC that won't play, any ideas? with Beethoven sucks! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102992 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?
ralphpnj wrote: Look I'm not trying to start some kind of flame war but I really, really think that you should actually read my entire post before you reply. It was not and is not my intent to single you out. I'm simply expressing consternation that a relatively straightforward question already has no fewer than four variations on What you want is pointless. If I appear to be picking on you, I apologize. The subject is important to me because I have lots of surround recordings that I enjoy and have wished for years now that the lossless ones could be integrated into the Squeeze universe. With a small but steady trickle of both new 5.1 mixes and old 4.0 mixes getting released in various formats, my desire to see a solution more flexible than Windows + Foobar2000 is only increasing. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102992 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Last words on PONO...
Mnyb wrote: I really loved the underestimated feature of discrete 6ch uncompressed music . That was the real deal with SACD or DVDA 2ch of the same master would sound exactly the same as 16/44.1 or 24/192 but the multichannel was something else . Totally agree. It's the only feature I think is missing from the Squeeze universe. By the way, there's been an interesting trickle of old quadraphonic mixes making it to DVD-A and (especially) SACD lately. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102976 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)
pablolie wrote: Integrity is relative. There are always corner cases where checksums will not be able to ensure it entirely (sorry to worry you). best practice, as always - early backups, ongoing integrity checks. ripping is such a brutal process... never ever want to do it again. Yes, there's a tiny, tiny chance that you'll hit a case where the checksum doesn't help. Buy it's something, as opposed to lossy formats which, as far as I know, have nothing. And I agree about the ripping...it took me a year and a half! I have onsite and offsite backups and now that I know how to automate the integrity checks, I just need to figure out how often I want to schedule them. I tested with a 40,724 track subset and it still took around 36 hours. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102391 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)
pablolie wrote: example: waltz for debby by bill evans. brilliant. one of favorite albums of all time. no way i can tell the difference between my original CD, which i ripped to both 320k MP3 and FLAC (and both sound the same), and the new remastered 24bit 192k version, which is just a bit louder, but provides no additional resolution. waste of money. There's one technical advantage to FLAC, though: Because each FLAC file has a built-in checksum, it's possible to validate the integrity of a FLAC library fairly easily. (Yeah, I was just playing around learning shell scripts and hit on that idea...) atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102391 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: iPhone 4 and 6...
probedb wrote: For example, try and get any 'audiophile' to accept that a FiiO D03K could possibly be any good because it's so cheap :) They'd rather pay £1k on something that does the same job. I just learned about that a couple weeks ago! Have built a Wandboard player/LMS for a friend with an old receiver with no digital inputs. As has been previously mentioned, the analog output of the Wandboard is nothing great, so I was looking for something better without going full-blown USB DAC and stumbled across the FiiO D03K. What a bargain! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102270 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What Would You Replace a Transporter With?
desertrat58 wrote: $1049. Logitech has balls. After what they did with SD, I will never buy another Logitech product. Although I hope the ones I currently own last forever... Actually, with an extra 10% off offer, the SE would be about $945. Still about 2x too much for consideration... But isn't the silver lining that continuing the sell the hardware--no matter how few units at however crazy a price--obligates them to keep going with the software and mysqueezebox.com? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100948 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New 24bit/192kHz Squeezebox Product
JohnSwenson;636378 Wrote: Of course there are no standards for any of this so one would have to be devised and then software and hardware written to support it. It COULD work but would take a lot of effort and would probably need some very enthusiastic group of people to push it through and probably provide the funds to implement things. Any of you that want this so much willing to take it on? In my case it's less a question of whether or not I'd be willing than whether or not I'd be able. It would be completely over my head. Really, I'm just dreaming about what (if anything) Logitech releases for its next generation product. It would be nice to have support for anything we're able to rip from a disc. I can currently play 5.1 DVD back from my computer into my receiver via HDMI, but it seems that sometimes it works and sometimes it stutters. Something as rock-solid as a Squeezebox would be most welcome, partly for the reliability and partly for the ability to maintain a single library with both standard and multichannel music. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88056 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New 24bit/192kHz Squeezebox Product
Am I the only one more interested in the ability to play multichannel FLAC than in high bitrates? Granted, the two more or less go hand in hand. It would rock my world if the next generation player had HDMI output through which I could play FLACs copied from DVD-A. And, while I'm dreaming, would respect the channel mapping tag so 4.0 and 4.1 material would output properly. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88056 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multi Channel Flac Streamer
vortecjr;492263 Wrote: The file was a download from itrac.com and there DTS 5.1 played great into my processor. I don't have a multi track flac file to test, but it should/could work. Remember that DTS just looks like a standard 2-channel file to the hardware. It's not attempting to decode anything, that's being done by your processor. A multichannel FLAC will require more thought on the part of the HDX-1000. Still, you've got me curious... -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72185 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The end of the CD player :-)
DaveWr;491135 Wrote: I have a third problem with this model - I do not intend to re-purchase the music I already have, and no service provider is going to provide it free. I have a fourth problem: I don't want something to disappear because a lawyer or revisionist decided to forbid it. (Currently thinking of Zanz Kant Dance and tons of censored Disney material.) -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71619 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ALAC or FLAC
andynormancx;489671 Wrote: The data size will pretty much the same, the SB3s will already be having FLAC delivered to them The amount of streaming data will be the same, but ALAC takes up a bit more disk space for stereo files and a *lot* more disk space for mono material. FLAC seems to do a better job of compressing data that's the same in both channels. Or at least this was true when I was doing some quick 'n' dirty tests a year or so back. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71882 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] 24/192kHz capability for Transporter
pfarrell;473359 Wrote: There is nothing close to a 50kHz signal on any vinyl record You're forgetting about CD-4 quadraphonic and its way-up-there-somewhere-or-other carrier. I suppose mega-crazy sampling rates would be useful for archiving those, though I don't know of any demodulators that would decode the quad from a line-level input. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69882 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Am I imagining this? Squeezecentre 7.3 sounds worse than 7.2.1?
darthkringle;389650 Wrote: In reading through this thread, I think that most of the perceived differences come down to settings; however, being an audio purist and being quite happy with 7.2.1, I am hesitant to move to 7.3.2 in fear of compromising audio quality in ANY way. Am I being paranoid? 7.3.2 plays DTS and AC-3 files without trouble in my setup, which tells me it's serving up the bits accurately and unchanged. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56591 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Am I imagining this? Squeezecentre 7.3 sounds worse than 7.2.1?
OK, maybe this is a dumb question, but wouldn't attempting to play back a DTS track be a pretty good test of whether or not the signal is being degraded or fussed with somewhere along the line? -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56591 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Am I imagining this? Squeezecentre 7.3 sounds worse than 7.2.1?
andyg;371666 Wrote: Absolutely, if you can play AC3 or DTS files then nothing has changed. Real-world example: I recently had to buy a new computer and sprung for one with on-board S/PDIF jacks, assuming that would allow me to break up some single-track DTS albums into proper tracks. I connected everything up to the receiver and got what I thought was perfectly good sound from normal stereo sources. So I played a DTS track and got...white noise. No matter what I did...white noise. After Googling around, I finally installed ASIO drivers and spent a bunch of time configuring everything. Seems like it took me half the day, but I finally got DTS working properly by jumping through hoops to get bit-perfect output. This and other past experiences lead me to believe that the DTS signal, crammed as it is with data and, I'm guessing, little error-correction, is ridiculously fragile. This was in fact one big reason I bought a Squeezebox in the first place--I wanted to use robust CD extraction software to get clean reads of some of my iffy DTS discs and play them back using something theoretically less prone to spurious errors. So far, my experience has been fantastic. In fact, it was the Squeezebox playing DTS files that alerted me to problems with my CD drive, as I whined about a while back in a different thread. I guess I'm just taking a very long road here to thanking you for confirming my assumption that if the Squeezebox is successfully passing a clean DTS signal, it's not doing *anything* to the sound. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56591 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Does the Transporter outperform SACD (2ch)?
pfarrell;311021 Wrote: I have never seen a serious attempt to compare high-wide PCM with DSD. Lots of comparisons of redbook to SACD, but that's not fair, its apples to oranges. It's too bad most (all?) of the hybrid SACDs from old analog masters (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd) contain DSD to PCM conversions on their redbook CD layer. It might have been useful/instructive to master each layer in its respective realm. Confession: I love SACD because I love surround sound. But for normal stereo, I've never been particularly blown away by SACD. I remember getting several of the Rolling Stones titles when they first appeared...I popped in Let it Bleed and was amazed at how great it sounded...then switched to the redbook layer and thought it sounded just as good. Even fully *expecting* the SACD to sound dramatically better, it just didn't to my ears. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48748 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Does computer influence Sound from Transporter?
tyler_durden;306396 Wrote: If you want a system that works reliably with minimal maintenance, get a Mac or run a PC with linux. The performance of SqueezeCenter will be better (faster serving of web pages, etc.) and you won't have to do nearly as much maintenance as with a windows machine. Indeed. I started out running SqueezeCenter on an XP Home machine with less than wonderful results. After a few weeks, I moved everything over to a less powerful box running the latest Ubuntu. Big difference! To be fair to Windows, I was running a lot of stuff on that machine. SqueezeCenter was just one of several things I [re]moved. The Windows box is happier, SqueezeCenter (and the two Squeezeboxes) are happier, and I'm happier. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48214 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
