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 iwalker
gatzou wrote: I am feeding a preamp, so volume control is bypassed both in the transporter and the Mytek. I had made some interresting comparisons between squeezebox Touch / Transporter feeding the same Mytek DAC (through AES / SPDIF) : - TP vs Touch = Mytek on external sync (TP not

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 iwalker
gatzou wrote: Yes I have tried the Mytek in studio configuration with active monitoring speaker. Mytek Analogue should be the best option in this case. Thank you. The Mytek 192 appears to be competitively priced compared with other professional DACs, such as Weiss 202 and Lynx HiLo. All my

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 ?

2012-10-15 Thread Mnyb
Some web radios work at 48k or 32k . Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96457

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hifi fetishism

2012-10-15 Thread TheOctavist
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/zfetish.html sums up the view of the people i cant stand... TheOctavist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52700 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hifi fetishism

2012-10-15 Thread Mnyb
TheOctavist wrote: http://www.heretical.com/miscella/zfetish.html sums up the view of the people i cant stand... I think mr zelig is to optimistic . the hi-fi fetishist is not completely out of touch with reality, otherwise he would need to deny the existence of the laws of physics . They

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hifi fetishism

2012-10-15 Thread RonM
More than thirty years ago! Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96779

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

2012-10-15 Thread RonM
Archimago wrote: Thanks for the info guys, that's what I thought... I've said to myself many times not to bother with HDTracks until they provide more info on where the master comes from or at least provide some kind of review section for users/buyers to post their comments (like Amazon and

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

2012-10-15 Thread ralphpnj
RonM wrote: It's useful to note, though, that HD Tracks has many tracks available in basic CD 16/44 quality. For many recordings that's the only resolution available, for others, it's one of several available resolutions. On numerous occasions I have been able to download in CD quality