if you're squeamish, because there's gonna be a lot of
audiophile hyperbole happening here. It is not every day that one gets
so much improvement for free; no wonder emotions are running high!
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magiccarpetride, can you compare your OSX server setup to a W7 system?
I have just obtained the newest, beefiest Mac Mini (which I intend to
harness as a media server).
This Mini is headless, and I'm currently shopping around for the
affordable HDMI cable so that I
to hear
subtle nuances in the decay of the cymbals, but since when is that a
bad thing? Also, since the dynamics are now considerably improved, a
violent cymbal crash is gonna hit you where it hurts, but hey, that's
life in the big city! Ever been close to a real drum kit?
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thanks!
I'm using a regular 16 bit/44.1 kHz CD rip. Sounds freaking amazing!
(but 16/44 CD rip of Abraxas for some reason sounds even better; more
about that hopefully later:)
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it sounded even better: it *is* better.
I agree. But why is it better? Do you know anything about that?
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containing 16 million colors.
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but this new liking-the-Beatles thing is scaring me.
I hear you. Turns out that the Beatles are to be blamed for the present
economic fallout in Greece. Go figure.
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version sounds very different. Not sure if I'm crazy
about the sped up She's Leaving Home, though.
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yourself into that role
quite well, and are now enjoying the fruits of your labour. The last
thing you'd wanna do now is admit that you can actually hear
differences where your measuring dexterity is incapable of detecting
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by the day (thank you, torrent community;), however the
time available for enjoying music is not growing. Rather than obsess
over the excruciating minutia of bits and bytes, let's enjoy the fruits
of Klaus's labor, which he so generously shares with us:)
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that better or worse are subjective
terms and no one can measure those? You are contradicting yourself big
time here. You'd need to develop a bit more intellectual rigour if you
are to play this game.
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of textures, colorations, presence. More
natural, but not quite as pretty as NAIM.
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is witchcraft and voodoo, but just give
it a try and sit down and listen. It will cost you less than a cup of
coffee, and the results may delight you. If in the end you don't detect
any difference, no big deal -- you're only short $1.29:)
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my Mini via Touch with TT3.0
into a dream digital transport machine. Any suggestions on how to do
some further tweaking would be welcome.
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teflon tape, the coffee tweak is
not a one time cost.
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An excellent idea! And you're not going to break the bank trying it.
There's only one slight drawback with this seemingly faultless
suggestion: - it's bollocks.
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musicality of the track remains.
Congratulations, I think your approach was overly successful:) But as
Guido said, it is all too dependent on how are other components in your
system balanced. In my case, this change hit the sweet spot, so thank
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are marvelous in reducing the EMI and the RFI glare, and
Shunyata power cables are world renowned for their exquisite 'liquid'
sound. Believe me, it's worth a try, because it will get your system
sounding like a high-end vinyl rig.
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of Agent Smith, if you get my drift...
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to sound a bit dry and clinical), but now all
of a sudden we're bringing it up again.
I have a feeling that we have barely scratched the surface of what's
possible when it comes to digital sound. The future looks very
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to truly enable the
potential of the box. And once you kill the deamons, you cannot do tt
-rbt.
Doing critical listening without removing the deamon jobs is not doing
justice to Klaus's mods.
Any ideas how to go about this? Is it even possible to circumvent this
conundrum?
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). SBGK appears to have similar taste as I do,
so I'm merely following his lead (for now, that is, until Klaus blows
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and the smacking of her lips she was making while singing).
The 12-26-2011 version was a bit dark and murky compared to the latest
one (at least to my ears).
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What are you going to report next week, when SBGK comes up with some new
values for priorities? ;):D :D
Nothing much, I think I'm just going to punch in the clock.
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How interesting that magiccarpetride and I seem to get similar sound
with different values . . .
It looks more and more like these mods are system dependent and, of
course, dependent upon what we like to hear! ;-)
Guido F.
I've spent some additional time doing
than Nordost.
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. This is a
dedicated music serving box, with nothing else running on it. I've
beefed it up to the max, and now am happy to report that I'm never
experiencing any hiccups while playing high definition (24/96)
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an issue? CPUs job is to crunch
the numbers, and that's what it's doing. I don't think that placing
more load on the CPU should necessarily result in increased
noise/interferences in the sound signal. But I'm open to be corrected
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between these 3 profiles I've mentioned
above, you should definitely sell that system and get some 'turn key'
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SBGK's mods to TT3.0, it is the sweetest
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Looking forward to TT 4.0 so that we can leave this thread behind.
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
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correct in your post above is that everyone's setup is
different, but don't expect to be given a gold medal for that type of
a 'discovery'. We knew that before you've decided to 'educate' us.
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with someone out
there in the real world). Leave adults alone to continue working on
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to reach new heights in the high fidelity of
the music reproduction, but also we can do it all for pretty much zero
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Of course, simple-minded people don't like to hear this type of an
answer; they expect everything to work by simply pushing an 'Easy'
button. Daydreaming and wishful thinking won't help you here, I'm
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,
which is perhaps why now I can take a lot of overproduced shit and play
it on my system and not cringe in pain.
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when
you crank up the volume, while in reality it's not really louder at
all.
It takes all sorts, I suppose...
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from the above gospel, we are in effect comparing apples to oranges --
not a very useful contribution. It's like comparing our driving
impressions while driving a modded Porsche, a hot rodded Chevy, etc.
Meaningless comparisons.
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to do to the poor old SBT? Just
Botox it, or do a bit more invasive surgery? Please share...
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bullshit. We only trust opinions of
people who have an engineering degree.
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People who chose not to disable w-lan, or not to enable rollick, or to
leave screen on, or not to kill daemons etc., cannot properly evaluate
what SBGK is trying to do here.
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material?
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for keeping the tabs, I'm using Mac Mini pushing bits from the
adjacent room via ethernet into SBT (TT3.0 + SBGK latest mods) into
Gatorized Beresford Caiman DAC into DSP 2000 preamp into DPA 200 power
amp into big old Magnepan MG-1 IMP planar speakers.
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that buffer 20,000 is optimal in this given
configuration, as it makes the piano sound freakishly convincing. I
think I'll be using and reusing that particular Fazioli piano track in
many of my future tweaking.
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That was my theory about MCR all along. Maybe SBGK is a new post-doc in
his lab.
You guys should get a job. Life in the real world outside your parents
homes is not really as scary as you seem to think.
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Oh, and the bit-perfection isn't God given, it's the result of the
system design.
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find that many performers have
'shrunk' by a few inches. Not sure what's causing it, but many singers
now appear shorter than before.
Weird...
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and forces me to rely on my hearing alone
only to detect whether I hear any changes or not).
I found this to be a very useful and revealing research methodology.
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Only if one believes in [a] God. Not everyone does.
There is no place for infidels on this forum. The arrow has already
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. The violins were so metallic, I had to take it off. But it's
the shoddy recording and mastering, not the SBT. No amount of face
lifting on SBT could ever make those violins sound less metallic.
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in there does the
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fatigue much faster than Touch does. Again, this may
or may not be a concern for you.
Adding an external DAC is in general a good idea, but which DAC? There
are many on the market, and they vary wildly not only in price but also
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to the sound, that is
just mesmerizing.
Anyone else has good listening experiences with contemporary/modern
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or no headroom for
post-prod manipulation. Add to that the nasty habit of mangling the
signal with those horrendous compression boxes that people nowadays
like to insert in-between the microphones and the recording devices,
and you end up with a completely brickwalled recording.
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coming out of speakers). Absolute lack of dynamics, the loudness
level remains identical no matter what song, or what part of the song
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guidof;683034 Wrote:
Some (most?) of the tweaks discussed in this forum may produce only the
illusion of improvement, but some may not.
The bottom line question is: who's to say? You? Klaus? Phil?
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price, I'm sure).
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Everything affects how we experience something, and whether we enjoy it
or not.
Same as it gets hard to enjoy good wine while drinking it from a baby
bottle, it gets hard to enjoy good music reproduction while sitting in
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and
enjoying life. And I see a lot of people in here crying foul over such a
hedonistic approach to enjyment. You do the math...
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on buying SBGK's tweaks. I'm
not made out of money, you know.
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, preferably with a closed membership of
two..
That is something that would improve listening experience
immeasurably..
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You still with me boy?
Objection: I am African American (read: black), and I object to this
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to be skeptical about any
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impressions regarding level 1 mods
alone (trying to figure out if it would be worth for me spending money
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is. And yet, somehow, you're managing to do it.
This is turning into a bizarro audiophile forum...
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anything possible to clean up your mains power
supply. At the end of the day, and with sufficiently resolving system,
you come to the realization that you're listening to your power.
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magiccarpetride;683738 Wrote:
I think I'll set some time aside this weekend to try this TT3.0 mod. In
case I don't like it, how difficult/easy would it be to go back to
square one?
So I took the plunge and applied the TT3.0 mods. What do you know, I
could not hear any difference between
threatening me if I report back how I went and
bought a $500.00 bottle and how it was, to me, money well spent.
So why are people getting so riled and upset if I do the same on the
audio font (i.e. I spend $500.00 on upgrading my mains conditioner)?
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, are therefore
still forced to live in their parents' basement, and are upset and
angry whenever they read that someone had successfully managed to tweak
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individual. I'm not sure
at this point whether you're a veritable psychopath or a sociopath (or
both)? Whatever the case, I sincerely hope that whatever your god or
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three to five feet behind the
vocalist, how to measure that and provide a reality check?
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recommended for those
brave souls who are not afraid to risk 100 bucks in order to get an
order of magnitude better sound.
I now have an additional problem -- I need to shell out another 100
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fitted in. Be honest and admit
this fact. As such, you're claiming to know something that you have no
experience in. Sad.
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and engineering
inventions. There are many uncharted territories to explore. Or, some
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for, and on this forum, all you get is a whole
bunch of free advice. So, do the math yourself.
And please, can we now stop, once and for all, with the el cheapo
sentiments and the lame attempts at protecting the 'endangered'
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There's a reason it's called Venom. Seems to poison everything it
touches.
How so?
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shoot the messenger (but they always seem to take the greatest
pleasure in shooting the messenger?!?)
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are interested in experimenting and furthering the research.
I'd like to ask you here to please cease and desist selling this quasi
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