Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?

2015-01-24 Thread Archimago
Yeah, just to clarify. No Squeezebox in the multichannel pathway for me either. The only place the signal intersects with the stereo gear is thru the preamp in home theater pass through mode to play the front channels. Sounds good. If anyone hasn't done so, check out some of the upsampled DTS

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?

2015-01-24 Thread Audiotic
Hmm, I do not use the Squeezebox for multi-channel at all. I use the SACD and DVD / BluRay - way for this. I have a lot of DSD files that in principle are multi channel files but have the 2 channel in them. This is played through Audirvana and a USB connection. As stereo. My DAC can only

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?

2015-01-24 Thread Mnyb
The only way to get multichannel is ac3 or dts files compressed as flac or wav . Thats what toslink or spdiff supports But with so many third party players aviable with hdmi capable hardware , Maybe its time to support 5.1 flac files ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Last words on PONO...

2015-01-24 Thread Archimago
Wombat wrote: Also Pono realized dsd is a growing market http://www.audiostream.com/content/pono-play-dsd Wonder if they stop selling PCM then of the ones available as dsd because they want only the best! I don't know if DSD is a growing market, Wombat. i actually know of nobody in my

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?

2015-01-24 Thread Archimago
Hi guys, wondering how you all are running multichannel rigs and what format you're enjoying? Like others have expressed, I also wish there were some way to integrate multichannel into the Squeezebox system. Awhile back I remember that if I tried to play a 5.1 song through SqueezeServer/LMS, it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel Playback - ideas and music?

2015-01-24 Thread darrenyeats
I am not a fan of multichannel. Ok for movies. Check it, add to it! http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/ SB Touch darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Last words on PONO...

2015-01-24 Thread Archimago
Interesting discussion boys... Lets open up a new thread on multichannel! I as well have been listening to more multichannel over the last year and slowly putting a library together. Would be interested in how you all are doing the playback side... Archimago's Musings:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Last words on PONO...

2015-01-24 Thread Mike Sargent
atrocity wrote: By the way, there's been an interesting trickle of old quadraphonic mixes making it to DVD-A and (especially) SACD lately. More on Blu-Ray than DVD-A (by a long shot). I'm really enjoying High Fidelity Pure Audio. Many are multi-channel, including some you wouldn't expect like

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Last words on PONO...

2015-01-24 Thread Wombat
Also Pono realized dsd is a growing market http://www.audiostream.com/content/pono-play-dsd Wonder if they stop selling PCM then of the ones available as dsd because they want only the best! Transporter (modded) - RG142 - Avantgarde Acoustic based 500VA monoblocks - Sommer SPK240 - self-made

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Last words on PONO...

2015-01-24 Thread paulster
The player doesn't natively play DSD or DoP FLAC, despite the DACs ability to do so. The version of jRiver converts DSD to PCM FLAC, which seems like a complete oversight. Two track 1's and no track 2 after a scan for new and changed? Please vote for serious scanning bug '17782'