Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option

2017-05-18 Thread utgg
Golden Earring wrote: > Like Wallace (of "& Gromit" fame), I have found the need to break off > for some cheddar at this juncture. > Come on now, it's got to be Wensleydale. utgg's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing

2017-02-09 Thread utgg
foxesden wrote: > Any ideas why this might be? I had level matched before putting the > thing in the chain and it must be 10 db louder - I mean it hurt. Clutching at straws - something really bad was happening in the analogue chain via the ground connection before the Intona thing isolated the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So they recommend Cat8 ethernet cables now!?

2016-12-13 Thread utgg
drmatt wrote: > Well, 24/48k would be less than twice the capacity. I'm interested to know what the typical FLAC file size is at 24/48k compared to 16/44.1k. I'd expect the 24/48k to be a lot larger than the ratio of the uncompressed bit-rates (1.6:1) might suggest. I only have 16/44.1k FLAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Euphony Audio

2016-12-05 Thread utgg
edwardthern wrote: > We are talking about jitter from the source. Explain what you mean by that and how it is relevant to audio quality. utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Euphony Audio

2016-12-05 Thread utgg
edwardthern wrote: > _ > > HERE_IS_SOME_INFO_FROM_REDHAT...[IF_YOU_CAN_BELIEVE_THEY_KNOW_WHAT_THEY_ARE_TALKING_ABOUT]_ > Newer CPUs may alter their performance based on a workload heuristic in > order to save > power. This is at odds with latency-sensitive workload requirements, > causing

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Study finds ...

2016-06-29 Thread utgg
cliveb wrote: > Anyone have any more details about this study? Full paper is freely available here: http://www.aes.org/journal/ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is anybody sick of the recent spate of threads?

2015-10-27 Thread utgg
darrenyeats wrote: > Thanks Mynb, > If the aim is not to truncate, the first numbers I expect to pop out are > binary roots of 65536 (i.e. powers of 2) e.g. 256, 512, ..., 16384, > 32768. Their absence indicates that avoiding truncation was not a goal > at all. > The table gain values of 2048

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] generating free energy by using chrystal

2015-09-01 Thread utgg
arnyk wrote: > At the least wind turbines can extract energy from wind without slowing > it, as they can extract significant energy by just making the wind > turbulent, thus increasing its entropy. The wind turbine can't extract any energy without slowing the wind down - as the wind passes the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] generating free energy by using chrystal

2015-08-31 Thread utgg
ralphpnj wrote: > On a related note concerning the lack of understanding of basic > scientific principles check out this article on batteries published in > yesterday's Christian Science Monitor: > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] generating free energy by using chrystal

2015-08-31 Thread utgg
ralphpnj wrote: > So please explain how STORAGE batteries are going to save the world from > climate change being caused by burning fossil fuels? On their own they aren't going do anything, of course. But most forms of renewable energy will also require huge amounts of energy storage in order

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] generating free energy by using chrystal

2015-08-31 Thread utgg
ralphpnj wrote: > Truer words have never been spoken or written. > > Sounds to me like you know EXACTLY what you're talking about :) I agree that changing to electric cars is a pretty stupid thing to do if we keep generating the electricity with fossil fuels. I think the article was about a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: PonoPlayer!

2015-08-15 Thread utgg
Archimago wrote: Just thought this spectral frequency plot looked interesting for the PonoPlayer! Lots of high-frequency gets through of course but not the usual Nyquist ringing. Linear with no phase shift in the higher frequencies. An interesting low frequency afterimage in the plot.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is anybody sick of the recent spate of threads?

2015-07-10 Thread utgg
jkeny wrote: I know it's 140/8 but where are you getting the 8 from? Oh dear. Again. utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is anybody sick of the recent spate of threads?

2015-07-07 Thread utgg
MichaelJ wrote: We? You don't care...don't presume to speak for me! Nor me. I do care, and have found the recent combative threads quite entertaining. There is also quite a bit of information coming out from Archimago and Arny that I find quite interesting.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is anybody sick of the recent spate of threads?

2015-06-22 Thread utgg
toby10 wrote: Seriously? Close the forum because you don’t like it? I find it entertaining, obviously others agree. If you are that offended by this forum then simply stop reading posting to this forum (which is the same result as closing the forum……. for you). Meanwhile leaving well

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] uptone audio regen

2015-05-29 Thread utgg
jkeny wrote: Do they? The structure of the digital signal I2S signal (the one that operates at chip level) is a serial stream of data bits, Right channel sample first then followed by Left channel sample. In modern DACs there are 32 bits in each sample. Each of these bits is clocked on a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Internet Blind Test: Linear vs. Minimum Digital Filters...

2015-05-19 Thread utgg
arnyk wrote: The literature related to doing this kind of listening test contains many examples of attention and inattention to the potential for nonlinear distortion (e.g. IM) in the monitoring system to cause false positives. This pair of sample-rate-testing files contain the results

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Internet Blind Test: Linear vs. Minimum Digital Filters...

2015-05-18 Thread utgg
I'm coming late to all these discussions, so forgive me if I'm covering old ground here. As an engineer that has worked for many years in all sorts of fields involved in signal processing, I've found the difficulties with wide-band high resolution systems are mostly to do with non-linearities. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-18 Thread utgg
probedb wrote: It isn'tand you just changed the goalposts. Let's take just one track from my collection: Artist Name: 65daysofstatic Track Title: The Distant Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties Album Title: The Destruction of Small Ideas ...just broke your

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread utgg
probedb wrote: 100 bytes is nothing though and if the tags are unicode then you just halved that. 50 characters wouldn't cover the song title + artist for many of the bands I listen to. I did say well organised. And I still maintain 100 is reasonable as an average - for all those long titles

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-15 Thread utgg
probedb wrote: It's nice that the SB/LMS system is being kept alive by projects like piCorePlayer too. I sold my original SB3 and bought a RPi with a HifiBerry Digi+ board for less money. I see no reason to use a Sonos player...so expensive in comparison. As a programmer the only reason