Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best possible sound from "Squeezebox" - which way should I go

2020-11-10 Thread w3wilkes
Oh yes, some make it vodoo! We have occasional earthquakes and tremors around here and I've not heard any vibration when these occur, at least when my power stays on. I would think that some cables made of unobtanium would correct all the problems. Main system - Rock Solid with LMS 7.9.4

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Unused Transporter SE's on eBay.com

2020-03-09 Thread w3wilkes
The power supply for the Transporter is internal. Here's a lengthy thread that I believe towards the end it talks about a replacement option since the original power supply is NLA. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?100509-Need-help-for-broken-Transporter Main system - Rock Solid

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter vs Touch with EDO

2019-10-30 Thread w3wilkes
chill wrote: > He's a man of wealth and taste. Nice! I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul to waste An oldie, but a goodie. You can add this to your catchy tunes thread! Main system - Rock Solid with LMS 7.9.1 Official on WHS 2011 - 2 Duets and Squeeseslave Cabin

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter vs Touch with EDO

2019-09-18 Thread w3wilkes
garym wrote: > So I have no shortage of squeezebox hardware units. So my actual > behavior suggests that I really, really like my Transporter. So a fun experiment would be to do a double blind - set up by @Archimago - comparing the Touch to the Transporter. That "extremely cool" look could

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] levitating turntable

2019-06-25 Thread w3wilkes
garym wrote: > :D Oh my. Do I need a special super duper power supply. And what if I > want to use it in zero gravity while on the space shuttle? :confused: Don't know about a super duper power supply, but you might have a problem adjusting the tracking weight on the space shuttle! Main

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing

2017-05-08 Thread w3wilkes
http://www.stereophile.com/content/carver-challenge#dCs2fXBtH44WZqYc.97 Of course this is old, But I believe he could do it again. However, it appears he's succumbed to Audiophilia http://www.enjoythemusic.com/superioraudio/equipment/0512/bob_carver_cherry_180_tube_monoblock_amplifier.htm

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing

2017-05-04 Thread w3wilkes
Sorry for taking the thread so far off topic, but I didn't bring up "Big Bang". I did want to give my 2ยข on "Big Bang" though. Again, sorry! I'll return to lurking this thread. Main system - Rock Solid with LMS 7.9 on WHS 2011 - 2 Duets and Squeeseslave Portable system - Rock solid with LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing

2017-05-03 Thread w3wilkes
The Big Bang was actually the formation of a Black hole. That is how our universe was created and we're (our universe) inside that black hole. This allows time to go beyond the creation of our universe because the collapsing star that created our universe existed in it's own universe that our

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

2016-12-08 Thread w3wilkes
Apesbrain wrote: > Wow, $70 a foot! I recently paid $150 for 1000 feet of quality CAT6. I'll bet that CAT6 will make a lot of noise! ;-) 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS 7.9 on WHS 2011

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Guys... Get a load of this! :-)

2016-04-27 Thread w3wilkes
I want to know what kind of beer that is he's walking through the woods with? From the little I see in the picture it appears to be a nice amber color and holds a head. Of course beer tasting is totally subjective... 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS 7.8.0 and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiostream's "Silent Majority"

2016-03-13 Thread w3wilkes
ralphpnj wrote: > I don't know the exact stats for age related hearing loss but it would > be very hard to believe that a man in his mid-60s, such as Atkinson, > does not have some degree of age related hearing loss. The disgusting thing about age related hearing loss is it seems to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What The Future Of Audio Might Look Like In A Digital World

2015-06-25 Thread w3wilkes
On the flip side (I believe in an effort to promote CD) take albums like Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms (1985) where the CD is almost 8 minutes longer than the vinyl. Or the original CD of Tom Petty / Full Moon Fever (1989) where there's a short hidden track in the pre-gap of track 6 where Tom

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] How flame wars start

2015-06-23 Thread w3wilkes
arnyk wrote: Agreed. In the end there is Science and anti-Science. Oh, there's also Weird Science... +---+ |Filename: Kelly+LeBrock-Without+Makeup+13[1].jpg | |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Piss take or serious?

2015-06-18 Thread w3wilkes
Darnit! Wished I'd read this before I ripped all my CD's. I had hundreds of CD's in their jewel cases with un-masked bar code information sitting right next to my PC as I was ripping them. My guess is the bad information field has been inserted into my rips! Now I'm going to have to re-rip all my

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Now where's that checkbook..

2015-02-09 Thread w3wilkes
How can I turn down Free delivery? 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS 7.8.0 and WHS 2011 w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] PCWorld (IDG News) Reviews Pono Player

2015-01-18 Thread w3wilkes
I guess this guy didn't drink enough Kool-Aid. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2871956/neil-youngs-pono-a-ghost-in-the-music-machine.html#tk.nl_today 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS 7.8.0 and WHS 2011

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What Would You Replace a Transporter With?

2014-07-26 Thread w3wilkes
I too have had a very good experience with the Duets. Mine are both wireless and have been very solid. My wife uses the controllers exclusively, but I now use OrangeSqueeze or the WebUI as my preferred controllers. One of my Duets gets moved twice a year between 2 locations and I now have setup

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple, Beats and Neil Young

2014-05-13 Thread w3wilkes
Did anybody see Neil Young on Jimmy Fallon last knight? Maybe Neil will re-release all his music after it's been run through the Voice-O-Graph. I'm sure his new album will be extra hires being recorded in this box.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] INTERNET TEST: 24-bit vs. 16-bit Audio Blind Test...

2014-05-11 Thread w3wilkes
Found the answer in this thread... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?80798-Setting-up-Squeezebox-server-to-transcode-MP3-on-server-rather-than-natively-on-Touch 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS 7.8.0 and WHS 2011

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Car stereo with USB stick- off-topic maybe?

2014-04-02 Thread w3wilkes
My car plays in the order the songs are recorded. It has a multidisc CD/MP3 player so I am careful to burn discs with albums/songs in the order I expect to hear them in. The only other option I have is to set playback to random. 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Help! Should I move to another State?

2014-04-01 Thread w3wilkes
I would move to Colorado or Washington state. I understand that the cannabis music enhancement material will significantly improve your listening experience regardless of the power source. Some have reported that they actually believed they had the musicians playing rather than listening to their

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone used this... AudiophileOptimizer

2013-11-28 Thread w3wilkes
Just for grins and giggles, even though I would hope you all know which camp I'm in from other posts regarding whether these type tweaks can have a effect on the music... The test of disconnecting the SB player from the server doesn't really prove that tweaking the server can't affect the sound.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone used this... AudiophileOptimizer

2013-11-27 Thread w3wilkes
Here's one way of describing why reducing tasks on the PC won't have any effect on the music. The way Squeeze works is in effect copying a file from one computer to another either over Ethernet or wifi. If the number of tasks running at either end had a effect on the file our copies of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] my phk record cleaning machine in action. an OUTSTANDING piece of kit. CHeap too

2013-04-23 Thread w3wilkes
The best part is the way this machine converted the original label to a RCA Red label. ;-) w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Magico S1

2013-04-23 Thread w3wilkes
Marijuana would be okay in Colorado and Washington state since it has now been legalized, just not in other places. So this says that it would make a difference where the tests were conducted geographically. w3wilkes's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is louder always perceived as better sounding?

2013-04-18 Thread w3wilkes
I think Wombat hit the nail on the head!! w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98610

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Magico S1

2013-04-12 Thread w3wilkes
On the women I think both are wrong. I'd rather go with someone who's really smart and has a sense of humor like Hedy Lamarr (coinventor of spread spectrum RF which is still used today and in the day porn star) or maybe Asia Carrera (played Carnegie Hall by the age of 15, Mensa member and last,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Has the vinyl revival gone too far? - Interesting perspective...

2013-04-06 Thread w3wilkes
And before digital we had the direct to disk. I have a Umbrella label that I bought in 1977 that features the Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Mozart. A wonderful recording that was as good as you could get back then! http://s247.photobucket.com/user/evinyl/media/waxpoetic/umbdd6-1.jpg.html

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Any differences between using laptop HDD, USB stick or external NAS with the Touch?

2013-03-26 Thread w3wilkes
Given the same audio file on any of the mediums you're asking about you should not be able to tell any difference in the sound from the Touch. This is because this is just data being fed to the Touch which then passes this on either through one of the digital or RCA outputs. When you say laptop

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Supersonic Stereo

2013-03-20 Thread w3wilkes
No one mentioned whether this supersonic event was coming towards them, which would have blue shifted the music, or going away from them, which would have red shifted the music. w3wilkes's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] distorted sound - why ?

2013-02-22 Thread w3wilkes
The data is still being sent bit perfect. You have not altered the music. What you have done is inserted about a 10Hz stutter into the realtime stream, kind of like when you sing through a spinning fan. If you do this same experiment doing a file copy rather than feeding a realtime player, you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Can anyone tell me how the wireless protocol works?

2012-03-13 Thread w3wilkes
If you have a reliable wireless connection then there should be no difference in the sound quality of a wired connection. Bits are bits. If you have a bad wireless environment you could experience dropouts in the music from buffer underruns. -- w3wilkes 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Should one hear sound directly from speakers?

2012-02-03 Thread w3wilkes
. Does this mean the 60's were too good to me? ;-) -- w3wilkes 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread: http