OK I broke down and got sick of tuning all my equipment. I am putting
all my equipment for sale, including my Naim amp and speakers and
various cables, Benchmark DAC1 and Pioneer Universal player.
I am replacing all that with the Meridian F80 that I just bought, yes
the little clock
darrenyeats;250989 Wrote:
Personally I like the sound of accuracy. Low distortion and a flat
frequency response sound good to me, although I admit many listeners
find these create a flat, sterile sound. It appears you tend toward the
latter opinion. All these impressions are equally valid
Just got my Meridian F80 and found that its digital in is a mic jack
which also dual as analog in. I am used to RCA digital out from my SB2
to balanced in for my Benchmark.
I went to an A/V shop and asked for a digital coaxial cable with RCA on
one end and mic jack on the other. The salesman
NewBuyer;250238 Wrote:
In my balanced gear I've tried various attenuators, including the
Endlers and the Rothwells. If you do go this route, avoid the Rothwells
- they sound *terrible* compared with all others, by far. The Endlers
sound the best, also by far.
I guess it depends on your
If your digital input is an XLR connector, then it would be AES. Just
converting an RCA (S/PDIF) jack to a XLR (AES) isn't the right way to
do it, as there is an impedance difference. There are also different
flags in the digital stream.
A 'typical' mic cable will work for AES short runs,
This is Sunday-morning laziness talking:
Is there an easy flac command line to perform that down sampling?
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agentsmith;251103 Wrote:
(1) Is this true? (2) If it works, would the sound be compromised? (3)
What is the difference between an analog and digital cable?
1) Yes, for the most part. Almost all good quality video/digital/audio
cables can be swapped. The most important thing is to have 75
SuperQ wrote:
agentsmith;251103 Wrote:
(3) What is the difference between an analog and digital cable?
3) In general, there isn't much.
The price!
All cable is analog, but that's a nit.
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My rips are lossless. MPEG-4 files are NOT lossless, which is why I'd
never use them. Kim's comment about cables is valid -- I am using an
AES/EBU (balanced) digital cable from the CD transport, but a S/PDIF
unbalanced cable (albeit, the best one IMO) from the Transporter. But
to my ears, the
I'm confused. I thought that the OP didn't want to spend $2000 on a
Transporter? Now it seems he has one.
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musicinmind;251155 Wrote:
If anyone knows of a better (but not price prohibitive) way to get an
ethernet cable interface to a DAC (either balanced or unbalanced),
please let me know. Thanks for your input on this, and Merry Christmas!
You are asking this question on a SlimDevices forum.
Thanks for the input on attenuators.
I do wonder if the benefits (if any) of the balanced connections are
negated by the impact of the attenuators.
I will be trying balanced cables in my multichannel system this week,
so at least I'll have some empirical data...
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gregeas
gregeas wrote:
I do wonder if the benefits (if any) of the balanced connections are
negated by the impact of the attenuators.
They are unrelated, assuming you are using balanced attenuators.
All they do is lower the voltage. They do not break the balance.
The goodness, or excessive overkill,
thomsens;251193 Wrote:
I have no idea how expensive the gear is that you have bought, but if
you are willing to spend $4k on a DAC, I don't see why you'd have a
problem paying $2K for the streaming transport component of your
system.Fear the DAC will prove to have been overrated...?
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Ethernet has nothing to do with your problem. The weak link is in the
SPDIF connection. It looks like your cdp handles it little better than
SB - on coax. Try glass toslink and you may be surprised.
If you want to abandon SPDIF altogether and have high quality dac the
ONLY source available on the
gharris999;250984 Wrote:
... would be a distribution clearing-house (online, retail, download)
for all the hundreds of classical artists and ensembles who
self-produce CDs these days.
A gold mine for the blood,sweat and tears of those who go unrecognized,
thanks to the slash and burn
According to the specs, Aux2 is a 3.5m mini toslink so you will need
an Apple toslink or one of these:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=29296C=FroogleU=29296T=AliasMA=mini%20tos
Happy Listening
Phil
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