Gentlemen, what matters is what you hear, and I hear a difference. Some
SACDs I own are from recording from the 50s -- do they 'sound' better
than a CD recording from the last couple years? No, but unfortunately
you can't hear Leontyne Price or Maria Callas or Thelonious Monk from a
fresh
Weeelll thanks for that everyone.
Ummm I have already had a pulse transformer popped in and a BNC
connector installed. I prefer BNC to BNC if possible.
Sean oh supremo one - any wiff of a 24/96 SB digital transport huh huh
huh??? Gleam in your eye? Or is that to be called a Transporter for all
cliveb;289492 Wrote:
Indeed it is. But the signal level is around 60-70dB SPL. So going by
your figures, the rounding error is at worst at a playback level of
-14dB SPL. Considering that the threshold of audibility is generally
accepted to be 0dB, I have to respectfully suggest that this
Phil Leigh;289459 Wrote:
I'm thinking it's that the error was not a rounding error in the 24th
bit, but actually rounding errors happening much higher upsay at
the 16th bit or even higher...that was caused by the maths involved in
the volume control stepping.
Sorry Phil - I never
It's called lossless not lossless. On other words, no quotes. It is
literally lossless.
If you hear differences, and I believe you do, there must be some other
reason (more/less network traffic or more/less processing on board or
placebo effect). They are surely not due to the format itself.
As
Obvious question: is the volume turned up on the SBR and is the output
not attenuated?
Press the controller volume up button or the web interface volume up
meter/button. Also go to Settings - Players - Audio - Preamp Volume
Attenuation (could be different wording, I don't have an SBR connected
This review compares the sound and finds the squeezebox to be slightly
better
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Maybe I've been into decent hi-fi for too long, but I still can't my
head round the numerous comments that the Duet is expensive.
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David Ayers
Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more
opaqueice;289810 Wrote:
Sorry Phil - I never responded to this.
Certainly it's possible that there was at some point a bug that
prevented the firmware from rounding properly, and if so the error
could be arbitrarily large. But if you round correctly (and we're just
talking about
I was looking for that forum but didn't notice it. Can a mod move this
for me?
Thanks
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you might want to move this to the Audiophile sub-forum.
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I think that the DAC is the most important difference between the SB3
and the transporter. So when you already use an excellent external DAC,
the difference will be much smaller than for others who buy a
transporter instead of a SB3.
Of course there are other advantages: faster processor, better
My experience is that the disk format is of minor importance. If you
really want to test the difference, go to Linn an buy the same sond in
high res and normal CD format. I'm sure that you will hear a difference
but this is only why the original master is of excellent quality.
Unfortunately you
As others have experienced, when I activate the digital inputs on my TP,
I get a horrible burst of volume. Issue was supposedly fixed in fw. 33,
but when i installed fw 36 w/SC 7.0, the issue persisted. I now have
been told that 40 has fixed the problem.
I want to install 40, but have heard
MacMini;289939 Wrote:
I think that the DAC is the most important difference between the SB3
and the transporter. So when you already use an excellent external DAC,
the difference will be much smaller than for others who buy a
transporter instead of a SB3.
Of course there are other
After extensive Blind Testing of streamed FLAC vs WAV (documented
elsewhere) USING AN EXTERNAL DAC with an SB3 I found no (zero)
difference in resultant sound quality. I'm quite happy for your mileage
to vary, I'm just reporting my findings. Personally this is a dead line
of enquiry. The digital
rhizomaticon;289727 Wrote:
FLAC may be lossless in a technical sense but an easy AB test through
your SB should illustrate the differences. At least they do on my
system.
Were you aware of the fact that slimserver, at least with default
settings, compresses WAV files to FLAC before
Be careful! Make sure you get the 75 ohm variant of the BNC cable, not
a 50 ohm type. A video cable will be 75 ohms. Not only is the cable
different RG59 (75 ohm) vs RG58 (50 ohm), but the plug is physically
different, although it should intermate without damage.
Mike69;289870 Wrote:
This review compares the sound and finds the squeezebox to be slightly
better
That review compares the Digital out, I need to know about the Analog
Out.
Anyone??
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Jazzyguy;289997 Wrote:
That review compares the Digital out, I need to know about the Analog
Out.
It compares the analog outs, starting on page 3.
Personally I wouldn't pay the slightest bit of attention to the
conclusions, but that's just me.
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Timothy Stockman;289994 Wrote:
Be careful! Make sure you get the 75 ohm variant of the BNC cable, not
a 50 ohm type. A video cable will be 75 ohms. Not only is the cable
different RG59 (75 ohm) vs RG58 (50 ohm), but the plug is physically
different, although it should intermate without
opaqueice;29 Wrote:
Personally I wouldn't pay the slightest bit of attention to the
conclusions, but that's just me.
Indeed...
neither the Wolfson chip in this player nor the Squeezebox 3 can match
the punch, timing and atmospherics of a similarly priced dedicated
separates CD player
Well, I don't trust this review...
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Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann
JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC
V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn
I have problems with the knob not working (it locks up). So I usually
don't use it, since the ability to play 24/88.1 files matter more to
me. (A simple cost/benefit evaluation). Otherwise I don't have any
problems - well perhaps it reacts a little slower to the remote some of
the time, but I am
Hi;
Thanks for all the good advices. I'm in favour of getting as Duet
combined with a DAC - I'll have to test a few ones in order to find my
favourite one. I think one of the main decision points are the
flexibility, that I get by combining Duet with an external DAC.
Once again thanks for your
Yes, I should have been clearer. I can hear a difference between flac
and wave on my TP when using the unbalanced analogue out. Oh, and both
my son and I prefer flac.
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David Ayers
Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more
GuyDebord;289960 Wrote:
Well... apart from the DAC, I believe the handling of the clock signals
by its crystal oscillators makes quite a difference. I find the
transporter a notch up from your tag combo
This may be so, but I have no intentions of replacing the Tag for some
time. And
DCtoDaylight;287823 Wrote:
The big problem though, is more likely to be source material. Most
people think MP3's sound good enough, which is part of the reason
SACD's and DVD-A's have never really caught on. The High res audio
market is really a small niche market, so there's little
It's been a while, but I finally did it :)
Special thanks to Phil for referring me to Dave @ hirezaudiovideo. He's
very nice guy, and it was a pleasure to deal with him. It took just 4
weekdays between my call to Dave and having this solid box arriving
straight from Korea.
Have to mention that
Anyone has any experience with Gemme Audio Tanto speakers? I heard them
at FES in Montreal, and was absolutely stunned. Unbelievable sound for
$5.5K mid-size floorstanders.
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sb3 || simaudio nova cdp simaudio moon i-5 revel performa m20 on
*skylan* stands via acoustic zen matrix
Some of my songs don't display a couple of characters (some of the
Kanji), what do I have to do to fix this?
I read some older posts about need unicode tagging and something about
putting font sets in the graphics directories such as code2000 and
cyberbit. Are these still required? Or is it's
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