Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Triode's USB 24/192 plug in - sound quality impressions

2012-08-10 Thread Beefy XXL
Teac A-H01 confirmed on the squeezebox. Method as per Headfi. Oh my god. Sound clarity, bas respons, resolved detail is improves a lot!!! When I first got my Squeezebox Touch and the TEAC A-H01 DAC/AMP (+ Taga F100 speakers) using RCA was sounding nice. Then optical and coaxial sounded

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Triode's USB 24/192 plug in - sound quality impressions

2012-08-10 Thread Beefy XXL
By the way. I used a standard Belkin USB cable with ferrite chokes. An other USB cable which worked perfectly with my external HDD fails in the Squeezebox-Teac combo. Beefy XXL's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-08-10 Thread lrossouw
bakker_be wrote: If you think Sweden is too small, what about Belgium, with it's 3 different language communities :D That said, I can easily see an EC-wide service being viable, especially as I look at the different nationalities present in the audience at Belgian music festivals. I'm in

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-08-10 Thread Soulkeeper
Borders are even more outdated than ipv4. But they're going to take much longer to replace. Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-08-10 Thread bakker_be
trott3r wrote: Lo, At 04:35 31/07/2012, Archimago wrote: cliveb wrote: Using the word fashion hits the nail on the head. Extreme compression and peak limiting is the currently fashionable way to master recordings. But as we all know, fashions come and go. Alas, this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Triode's USB 24/192 plug in - sound quality impressions

2012-08-10 Thread Stratmangler
Beefy XXL wrote: By the way. I used a standard Belkin USB cable with ferrite chokes. An other USB cable which worked perfectly with my external HDD fails in the Squeezebox-Teac combo. Sounds like you've got a mixture of USB1 and USB2 cables there. Chris :)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Triode's USB 24/192 plug in - sound quality impressions

2012-08-10 Thread SBGK
after hearing the sound quality of my nad m51 via hdmi from my laptop i am now resigned to the fact that the touch is a dead end in terms of sound quality improvements in my system. EDO is just a distraction it has higher resolution, but poor sound quality. i have not heard anything better than

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-08-10 Thread congole
cliveb wrote: Using the word fashion hits the nail on the head. Extreme compression and peak limiting is the currently fashionable way to master recordings. But as we all know, fashions come and go. ... And so it is with mastering these days. The herd mentality requires that they