This is totally off-topic for an audiophiles section, but my
recommendation for this would be to parts.
Step 1, get a an SPL meter. There are some out there with USB so you
could try and do data logging.
Step 2, Find out what volume level is loud enough to not be a bother
when the store is
tingtong5 wrote:
>
> The second time a track plays, it is read from the linux OS disk cache
> instead from disk. This means the track is played from RAM memory
> instead of from the hard drive that contains the file (track).
>
This is not exactly true. Linux always copies data from the disk
wortgefecht wrote:
> RE: crossed out bar codes: there are several German organic food
> producers who actually print the bar codes with a horizontal line
> through them, because their customers demand it. But they believe that
> bar codes are satanic in origin ...
>
> Gesendet von meinem Nexus
Baffling.
The opinion that there are still unsolved cases of where the difference
people hear can't be measured blows my mind.
We can tune in the 23W transmitter from the Voyager probes that are 5.8
billion miles away, but nope, audio is unsolved.
It's like they're willfully ignorant of things
Julf wrote:
> And what actual physical property of the valve rectifier would cause
> those effects, and how?
Here's a couple of interesting articles about tube rectifiers as used in
audio circuits:
http://www.soldano.com/amp-help/tube-vs-solid-state-rectifiers/
pippin wrote:
> "What happened when I did it 8 times just blew my mind!"
I wonder what happens when you take it to 11.
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With a room in the 40m2 size, maybe something like this would suit you:
http://www.peachtreeaudio.com/all-products/amplifiers-dac.html
It's a solid-state amp, but has an optional tube buffer to add a bit of
the tube sound analog noise that people like.
For your room size, the 65w model is
A long time ago I got conned into buying monster cable stuff by the
local audio shop. I mostly needed a long subwoofer line cable so that I
could get the sub properly positioned. I think I spent $150-200 (back
in 1999). That was a lot of money for me in my early 20s. The cable
was even
cliveb wrote:
Let me start by stating that I fully understand and acknowledge that
vinyl is a deeply flawed and inaccurate medium. ...
Even now, when a needle-drop gets played over the Transporter it somehow
grabs my attention that many CD sourced files don't.
There has to be something
Probably easier to just transcode to FLAC. Plus you get all the
metadata advantages missing from AIFF.
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USB cable differences tests. I seem to remember it was within the first
few months of the site opening. Gave up on it long ago.
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Genelec is a fantastic top of the line monitor company. I've auditioned
them several times over the years, but have always been just short of
buying them because it's such a close race between them, Dynadio, and
Adam. Due to the cost I've never been able to justify the upgrade from
my
Kellen wrote:
Hello I have finally got both hands on another Touch which I would like
to EDO up with the external USB DAC. I would like it to be an asynch USB
DAC which employ galvanic isolation. DSD is not a priority just
needs it to be 192k capable.
Any offers for suggestions under
heisenberg wrote:
When comparing side-by-side two versions of the same track, I tend to
invariably favor the quieter sounding one.
And this is where you're missing the actual point. You're comparing two
different tracks of different content. Sure, they might be the same
song, and even come
What do you expect from snakeoil sales people? Sorry, you got fleeced.
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Another observation or illusion (?), if I unplug all the power cords,
clean the prongs with just a clean paper towel and plug it in, the
system sounds very detailed. I check for this with very low volume
listening. What could be happening ?
Very likely the system is
ralphpnj wrote:
To me the CA site is no different from any the high end audio magazines.
The site's founder aka The Computer Audiophile, to his credit, has
managed to ingratiate into the elite regions of high end audio and he is
now unwilling to do anything which might rock the boat and
That's extremely good. Time to beat some of my analog friends with it.
:-)
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For people with a sense of humor, hit reload a few times.
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I have never used blind testing because I believe humans are best suited
to A/B testing
Only someone with something to lose (money, pride, whatever) would have
an opinion like that.
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The answer is:
Expectation
Bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimenter's_bias)
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I built a nice custom linux server/desktop machine. It does a number of
duties besides just LMS. It hosts files for my mac mini (still trying
to decide if I like XBMC or Plex as a UI for that). I also use it as a
primary desktop for browsing and photo editing. It also runs a number
of VMs for
You've found them. There's nothing you really need to change. Sorry to
disappoint the Audiophile tweaker in you.
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You could try Inguz room correction. Or buy a different DAC. Maybe a
Benchmark DAC-1.
http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/dac/dac1-series-overview
Or if if you want my honest opinion, get better speakers. I think ML
sound like shit. But that's an opinion on speaker voice not what you
get from the
NoRoDa;699172 Wrote:
No way!
This is the answer
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Nice, does it play FLAC?
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of data from the
server to the client buffer. Therefore they can not have any effect on
playback.
Because of these lies people are being mislead into thinking there is
to this. We (the community) refuse to stand by and let SBGK tell
blatant lies.
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I see the unicorn but somehow it's photons don't stick to film or excite
the ccd in my camera ?
This just proves that unicorns are vorlons.
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Yup, we've talked about this many times in this forum.
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is very high decibel levels at any
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I've thought about this before. You could use it to ABX test various
encodings/formats for lossy music.
The problem is all the stuff I want to ABX is physical
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I'll should sell a Dynamic Tuning Bullet that automatically adjusts
with whatever music you're playing.
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SBGK;686389 Wrote:
Just tried the Ingus DRC (never heard of it before seeing your
signature), pretty poor on my system, massive drop in resolution.
You mean Inguz? What microphone did you use?
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(Constant
Linear Velocity) means keeping the speed at which the bits are moving
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didn't seem happy to have measuring
equipment in the room, but atleast he left me alone with various
speakers for an afternoon.
I ended up buying a nice set of speakers that suited my acoustic,
aesthetic, and budget desires.
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Another option would be to try the inguz room correction system. Get a
good refernece microphone (like an earthworks) and USB transport to do
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Now, it's up to you what you want to believe.
This is why the only thing I tweak these days is the amount of herbs
and spices I put in my food. Also the quantity and quality of the beer
that goes with it. :-)
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files are mixed well.
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this kind of work.
It should only cost a few hundred USD to have all the caps replaced.
Personally I would suggest auditioning a modern power amplifier.
You'll get a lot more improvement from that than trying different
modern DACs on such an old amplifier design.
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Yea, I'm going to have to agree on the speaker issue. The Menuet rolls
off at 68 hz. You'll get a lot more life out of your music if you
picked up floorstanders or possibly the Mentor sub.
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will have
seriously degraded. You could always have the amp refurbished. There
are a ton of people online doing rebuild service.
If you really like the amp, it might be worth
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I have a set of welded from here:
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm
The 12AWG cables should be small enough to be tucked away.
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for the pain to
subside and continued climbing. Got to the top (3864') and drank a
whole bottle of gatoraid. Thankfully that was it for climbing for the
day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrn8wzPQ1U4hd=1
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I cycled up Mt Diablo in hotter than 40C/104F blinding sun last
Saturday. Sunday was all about sleeping in, having a beer, and
listening to a bit of music.
TP - Musical Fidelity M6i - Revel F32.
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speakers were decent for the size.
The only unfortunate thing for your situation is I don't remember if
the SE-1 was front or rear ported.
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think.
There is so much confusion around FLAC being compressed. How about
we say linear encoded. FLAC is compression like ZIP files are
compressed. If you put a word processor document into a ZIP file and
then unzip it, your document doesn't change. FLAC is the same.
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is to reduce your amp's gain or apply a passive
attenuation (simple resistor network) to limit the max volume of your
system.
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signal and have
reasonably good jitter there should be no detectable difference.
Check out http://www.libinst.com/Audio%20DiffMaker.htm
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earwaxer9;637351 Wrote:
Thanks for the input SuperQ - I have been thinking about using the top
end of the Transporter digital volume control. It makes sense that bits
off the top of the 24bit dont make a real difference in terms of the
noise floor. I also thought about running my Alps
an amplifier with a theater bypass mode that would allow it to
act as a not-volume-controlled amplifier.
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RG6 type cable is basically all you need.
You could order raw coax from http://www.bluejeanscable.com/
I would email their customer service and ask. They were very helpful
when I needed a very long HDMI cable.
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It sounds like they're using something like audio diffmaker. It should
be easy to reproduce their results.
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Possibly, maybe. Probably not.
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audio from both of your
sources.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CM140/
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JezA;619070 Wrote:
Add up all the money you propose to spend on fancy power supplies,
cables, NAS's and other voodoo.
Spend it on a Transporter.
Job done, right.
+1 to this
Also on my top list of audio improvements: http://www.gooseisland.com
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Perfect null on ADM.
Next up, magic amplifier isolating wood blocks. :)
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. But even then the effect on audio
frequency range is minimal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litz_wire
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was replaced by tinniness and splash.
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being compressed to the limit in the Jukebox era to get the most volume
out of the equipment.
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) on the squeezebox server
side.
The Squeezebox itself doesn't really have a DSP (with the exception
of the Boom). All it does is apply a simple linear volume adjustment
to the bitstream. The math for this is not as complicated as a DSP
filter.
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yourself without the computer help in
comparing.
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you're doing, it sounds like you would need 2 pairs. Or two
pairs and use only one of the TX side.
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thaw|resume)
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esac
The perl scripts could be included on all platforms as a plugin.
I don't know how MacOS's power handling works. It's possible that
launchd handles this. I'm not a MacOS expert.
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Which do you think will look better? That's how I'd decide.
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. This will get the overall volume of your music to be
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Nothing Audiophile will be 100. ;)
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about issues the faster 7.6 can get fixed
and released. :)
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are not making any difference to the
sound of their system.
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and
24/96 files i'd like to listen to in this fashion. is there a setting
in SC that will allow me to limit the bit rate of the digital out, but
NOT the analog out?
You could probably use SoX to force transcode down the tracks.
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approximately
matches your music selection.
I made a bunch of test noise files and put them on my server here: 15
seconds of pink noise at various levels.
http://ben.nerp.net/noise/
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between your sources is. With the voltmeter method you can do the
calibration without any speakers attached. Just measure the open
circuit voltage on your amp (harmless).
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are very very small. It takes very close proximity or very
strong/moving fields to make them flip. The permanent magnets/voice
coil used to actuate the read/write heads are very strong, inside the
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Dynaudio BM5a speakers meet this requirement perfectly.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BM5Amk2
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) is arguably better (and is going
to be better stereo matched with bi-amped monitors) than the control
done in the analog domain.
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The Touch spdif output is supposedly better than the Duet. The is
probably not worth the money as a digital transport only. However the
Transporter is probably a better DAC than the one you have.
The Touch may also be a better DAC than the one you have as well.
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better.
All components are cheap, a few cents. Just because they're cheap
doesn't mean they're bad. And just because they cost more doesn't make
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Sounds like a bug to me, I would check the bugs database. If you don't
find anything about fixed volume when using digital inputs I would file
a new bug.
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Squeezed_Rotel;529363 Wrote:
Is this normal? Is there a way to increase the volume at the rip
stage?
Yes, use replay gain. It works really well and won't make your music
sound worse. Mostly it will mute down the loud stuff to match the
levels of quieter tracks.
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digital_input_toslink
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http://www.apc.com
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in the
squeezebox and transporter is transformer coupled. There is no direct
electrical connection.
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Yea, it looks like most of the accessories are gone from the Logitech
store that used to be on the slimdevices store.
More amusing is that the Squeezebox Radio accessory (battery and
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Done. Plays perfect as WAV file.
You don't need to decode to WAV. If you just run the FLAC utility it
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