Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Genius loves company

2013-05-06 Thread gatzou
Interesting thread... I am a big fan of Ray Charles (I know very well his records) and I am quite an old school ears guy (preferring old uncompressed (dynamically) standards to modern production). But I find this Genius love company quite well produced for a modern prod, regardless of artistic

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Which DAC to significantly upgrade the Transporter ?

2012-10-15 Thread gatzou
iwalker wrote: How do you control volume? I understand that the Mytek has both digital and analogue volume control options which can be bypassed. I am feeding a preamp, so volume control is bypassed both in the transporter and the Mytek. I had made some interresting comparisons between

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Which DAC to significantly upgrade the Transporter ?

2012-10-15 Thread gatzou
Yes I have tried the Mytek in studio configuration with active monitoring speaker. Mytek Analogue should be the best option in this case. gatzou's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57278 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Which DAC to significantly upgrade the Transporter ?

2012-10-15 Thread gatzou
Web radios (and streaming services like spotify) play fine with the TP slaved to the DAC (set at 44.1k). Setting up the wrong samplerate will affect playback speed for local music and radios as well (at 88.2k, radio plays twice as fast, with rebuffering periods...)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Which DAC to significantly upgrade the Transporter ?

2012-10-14 Thread gatzou
In the same league, I use a Mytek Stereo192 with pleasing results. All those Lavry / Weiss / Mytek converters are pretty neutral en detailled. In comparaison, the Transporter DAC sound slightly veiled / fatted I use the Mytek to slave the Transporter thank's to the worldclock input, making it a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-Res audio and low DR (ie. compressed) music...

2012-10-12 Thread gatzou
garym wrote: If the 24/x files are from the exact same master as the 16/x files, there is no benefit to the high res files (other than to the sellers removing cash from your bank account). Plenty of evidence from rigorously done experiments that people can't detect the difference between

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Clock in for Transporter

2012-09-20 Thread gatzou
I am using a Transporter slaved to a external DAC (Mytek Stereo 192) and it work perfectly. Clocking the transporter to the DAC (using worldclock) is an improvement compared to only feeding the DAC in 'sync' mode. I was quite surprised myself by the sound improvement, as this DAC is known for