Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

Hi All, After reading your posts, curiosity moved me to try, so i spent the long Week end (from friday to tuesday, was Holyday in Italy) lissening to different music and looking for differences. I was skeptic, becouse i knew and i'ìve personaly verified that you can convert from wave to flac

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

Hi! My Transporter has problems playing one, and just one 24/96 file. I have downloaded the album Retrospective with Rebecca Pidgeon on HDTRACKS.COM And consequently there is digital noise in track 1 Spanish Harlem. First I thought that the file was coruppted and I got a redownload. But exactly

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav and Flac sound quality issues

Hi All, i've just posted a replay in another thread about the same topic, i'm realy intrested in it, so could we close one and continue with the other? thanks -- marcoc1712 marcoc1712's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Time to fully replace my cd player

Hi Pat, i'm for sure OT, but i realized you are using a Notebook as 'remote', I do the same, just to have a 'large' picture display of the cover AND the ability to read some docs related to the disc (i.e. the scan of the booklet) or surf the internet (i.e Wikipedia). I'm wondering if someone

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

callesoroe;493838 Wrote: Hi! My Transporter has problems playing one, and just one 24/96 file. I have downloaded the album Retrospective with Rebecca Pidgeon on HDTRACKS.COM And consequently there is digital noise in track 1 Spanish Harlem. First I thought that the file was coruppted

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

We used to have problems where TP would run short of cpu cycles on certain 24/96 material but I thought that was not an issue any more. It may be that this material was encoded using the highest compression settings which results in slightly more CPU-intensive decoding. You might try

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

marcoc1712;493806 Wrote: Hi All, After reading your posts, curiosity moved me to try, so i spent the long Week end (from friday to tuesday, was Holyday in Italy) lissening to different music and looking for differences. I was skeptic, becouse i knew and i'ìve personaly verified that you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

I have just downloaded 2 tracks from this album - 24 Hours Of Love and Spanish Harlem. I can confirm that 24 Hours Of Love plays perfectly but Spanish Harlem does not play properly, I can hear digital noise/distortion while the track is playing. So this track definately does not like the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

Assuming there is truly blind testing going on here, I'd assume the difference is the typical case created when there is even a slight volume difference in the playback of the two files. It is well documented that this preference bias can exist with even tiny volume differences. In this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

garym;493955 Wrote: Assuming there is truly blind testing going on here, I'd assume the difference is the typical case created when there is even a slight volume difference in the playback of the two files. It is well documented that this preference bias can exist with even tiny volume

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

Please try disabling the native decoder as a test. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72413

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

Phil Leigh;493957 Wrote: I think that expectation bias may also play a part... RG (which has caught me out in the past too) would typically give quite large differences in output... Yep, agree on both counts. If this not a true ABX test on the part of the OP, then these results are hardly

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

garym;493960 Wrote: Yep, agree on both counts. If this not a true ABX test on the part of the OP, then these results are hardly worth discussing given the typical expectation bias. Re the RG adjustments, I do have some files (typically from older CDs) that have very, very small RG

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

Phil Leigh;493967 Wrote: My RG tag for the track mentioned earlier is -3.66dB - should be very audible? sorry, was not referring to one of the files mentioned in this thread (but one of my own files with a small RG adjustment). -- garym

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What outboard DAC do you use with Squeezebox?

So you folks who use the MF-XDAC-v3. Has the bug where the DAC would still sense a signal when the receiver was off preventing automatic input switching been fixed? Thanks, Ajay -- ajayrav ajayrav's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

Hi all, I do not use RG (disabled), so i think is not a matter of volume. By the way, every difference in audio is a matter of Volume difference depending on where and how the difference is, you have good or bad sounding devices! Anyhow, I think that IF there is a volume difference, it will be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

SuperQ;493959 Wrote: Please try disabling the native decoder as a test. When I disable the native decoder the song plays perfectly. So there must be a decoder bug. Is there a downside in having this setting disabled? -- callesoroe Callesoroe SB-duet, Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X digital

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

marcoc1712;494002 Wrote: IF for SB is exactly the same to play a WAVE or a FLAC converted to WAVE in the server side, why in the first case the FF/REW is disabled and is working in the second? Because transcoding makes it hard for the server to know where exactly it is in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

snarlydwarf;494018 Wrote: So FLAC - FLAC works with FF/REW. So does WAV - WAV. This sound like a good explanation to me, but... Actualy (7.4.1) you could not operate FF/REW in WAV - WAV (at least if you are using a .cue file, you can in a single wav file - just tried after your post,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Any audiophiles got a SB Touch to beta test?

Hello all, I don't mean to hijack the thread or lay off course, but this is the only appropriate thread I could find to post my question. I had read a post which is almost 2 years old at the AVS forum and it doesn't look like we'll ever have 24/96 on the SB3 due to the CPU according to Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Any audiophiles got a SB Touch to beta test?

SB3 will never support 24/96, that is correct. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70167

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

marcoc1712;494051 Wrote: This sound like a good explanation to me, but... Actualy (7.4.1) you could not operate FF/REW in WAV - WAV (at least if you are using a .cue file, you can in a single wav file - just tried after your post, strange, is'nt it?), but is possible in FLAC converted to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Very very strange Transporter problem

Yes, you can't fast-forward or rewind, and the streams use 2x the network bandwidth. Please file a bug https://bugs.slimdevices.com/ -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

marcoc1712;494002 Wrote: Hi all, I do not use RG (disabled), so i think is not a matter of volume. By the way, every difference in audio is a matter of Volume difference depending on where and how the difference is, you have good or bad sounding devices! Anyhow, I think that IF there