haven't spent time on blind comparisons yet however but
they do sound good at 24/88 on my Transporter.
Most rippers I see are using Saracon for these DSD -> PCM conversions
and thus filtered out most of the ultrasonic
l.
I for one am thankful that the digital SACD rips are available now so I
can finally get backups of my old SACD's collected since 2001 and play
them back more conveniently on the Transporter at 24/88...
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I really hope there's a "Lifetime Shame Award" for the likes of Vlado
Meller ("mastering engineer") to celebrate his deafness and ineptitude.
Check out this interview, sickening...
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090211master
nswer from the gurus.
I get my Stereophile cheap off Zinio on the iPad/Android - agree that
it's great for a few chuckles monthly. Almost as funny as 6loons...
er... 6moons.com :-).
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*measured* using a methodology like that in Stereophile (in room
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hru the other reviews as well and noted the
excellent performance of those you listed- many excellent measurements,
along with many questionable high priced units. It looks like about
21-bit resolution is the highest out there
Lovely answer Adam!
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as good! All for the paltry price of $2500. I wonder if you have
to sign an NDA agreement when you buy one of these to promise not to
crack it open and take some pictures for the Net :-)
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If the Transporter is connected
wirelessly, could you quickly try on ethernet and see if it works?
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Wondering if anyone else having any more issues with Transporter and
FLAC -8 these days?
For the last 2 years, I've been encoding everything - 16/44 to 24/96
with -8. No problems with sound as far as I can tell.
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tening levels, it's unlikely
that that level of "blackness" is noticeable :-).
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orter/DAC or does it spit out 16-bits?
Also, does the output remain as 44kHz or is there any upsampling to
88kHz/96kHz?
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audio room taming those bass peaks,
some of which were +15dB. The sonic difference at my listening sweet
spot has improved beyond any cables I've ever tried.
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LMOST EVERY CD player,
DAC, digital streamer these days are measured in the picosecond range
(except for strange boutique designs which almost invariably the
subjective reviewer still likes!).
I'd really love to hear Paul Frindle address this to get an idea of
what he considers as transpare
o create simulated jitter such as the thread above? Would love to
experiment to find my own auditory threshold.
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ull well the tendency towards objectivism with many of the
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potentially a much bigger issue
than in the playback? No matter what we do, if it's engrained in the
music, there's no way to fix...
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matters at the Steve
Hoffman site.
Wondering for folks who have looked under the hood of the Touch - what
crystal oscillator does it use for CD? Any idea how many PPM the
frequency stability is on that crystal? I'm curious as I want to run
some roug
panese Black Triangle)
- MJ - Off The Wall
- MJ - Thriller
- Wings Greatest
steveinaz:
I think so too. Don't know about "perfect sound forever" in the sense
that it can't be bettered, but a perfect digital copy remains perfect.
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DAC, speakers, CDP, etc. but where the equipment
decidedly sounds bad (not due to user error)?
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t; Also most Naim gear makes me flinch (not the stuff in the last 5 years
> or so though )
Phil, do you think this would be measurable today. For example, would
the Quads show poor waterfall results, and the old CD players
demonstrate accentuated high fre
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ersus possibly
where you might have the SET amp in a more audio setup with possibly
albums, CD's, etc, on the wall...
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good on any decent system. When auditioning, I always bring some
explosive classical, AC/DC or equivalent hard rock, R&B, and modern
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processed remake of "Rock On" from the Def Leppard album "Yeah!". Lots
of deep bass as well - should make quite an impressio
self.
As for variability in an audio system. To paraphrase Animal House: "All
audiophile components are equal, but some components are more equal than
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rted" to objectivism about
10 years ago and started to put my energy into enjoying the music rather
than the hardware (unless I know/prove there is a definite worthwhile
difference), collecting the tunes I love, and learning a thing or 2
about life either in the music or the artists, thi
us), all I'm saying is why fight it?
So prestige is important for choice of audio equipment, eh? I guess I
don't consider my audio equipment of high enough priority to seek out
the prestige... sounding great is good enough for me.
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ck advance (try
deactivating the remote controls from Settings -> Player ->
Transporter/Remote and see)? Maybe someone is also using your
Squeezebox network and accidentally controlling your Transporter?
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Remote" menu.
You should see tick boxes for "Front_Panel", "Slim_Devices_Remote", and
"jvc_dvd".
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11 I
believe which could mess up the Transporter more than Touch. Also,
hi-res 24/96 audio compressed at higher levels like -8 may cause
trouble (it's been reported in the past although honestly I have not
run into this problem personally).
Another "long shot" but worth thinking ab
OK, so the new firmware has been released for a few months now with this
option for Transporter users.
Which do you use? Do you notice a significant difference?
Personally, I'm currently still on the "sharp" filter and experimenting
with the Behringer DEQ-2496.
power
> consumption, eliminating the jitter effect. Of course this means that
> you can't use your computer, and that all fans run at full speed for
> cooling, but -the sound-... let me just put it this way: Blacker
> blacks,
H that can only be
achieved with the best hand built short pathway audio components
soldered by some sensei in Japan.
If you don't understand this, obviously you have not heard the Nirvana
from outfits like 47 Labs.
Sans serif friends, sans s
Yup, enjoyed The Audio Critic's work over the years.
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once we go through the science of it all...
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e often mastered at a higher level if the science is pretty clear
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al interests (surely this cannot be the only criterion for
adequacy to print). I really do hope many of the readership can see
through this nonsense; at least inundate TAS with letters if not
boycotting the purchase of such inte
TB (Ghost In The Bit) delusion being
perpetuated in mainstream audio?
I think it would be fascinating to survey how many 'audiophiles'
believe this nonsense. I wonder if reputable manufacturers ever
complain to the magazines?
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Ripping back then sucked without verification software like EAC.
Oh the anxiety every time I pressed the "OK" button to start writing
something - hoping that I didn't blow another few b
tion
from Audio Asylum:
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/10/103654.html
Using a transformer across the ground wire, eh? I wonder what kind of
score that got? Anyone see this issue?
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does that change capacity?
Misinformed? Fraud? or just plain Insanity? What's this guy's
background anyway other than marketing?
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h SOX. "So Far Away" DR value drops to 18 from 20 after
the de-emphasis BTW.
Pre-emphasis list:
http://www.studio-nibble.com/cd/index.php?title=Pre-emphasis_%28release_list%29
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sight, but at least many of us acknowledge that blind
testing is important).
A, whatever... Off to enjoy the night with the family and maybe
some tunes once the kids are sleep :-)
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ed... Surely
you didn't think I was referring to bit perfect sounding same on all
equipment...
Anyway, I stand by the assertion of TAS being intellectually dishonest.
As for your comments, they seem again to refer to lack discernment
be
x27;s
AK4396 slow-roll vs. standard filter?
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27;m digressing here). Oh well...
Bottom line: Enjoy Barry's work on producing good music with decent
dynamic range, etc. His opinions on audio otherwise should be taken
with large grains of salt / alcohol / hallucinogens.
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Cool link, will bookmark that one! Got 10/10 for 72dB with my old
Emu0404USB and Sony MDR-V6's... Didn't bother with 78dB - as you said,
annoying. Might want to give the Sennheiser HD800 a try later tonight
but since they're not closed back cans, mig
s at -90dB and inaudible. I can see many non-technical folks
will point to this and say just how bad 16-bit music is compared to
24-bits; hogwash! For actual audible material, the waveform will look
nothing like this as Phil noted.
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s clearly inferior and noisy and I didn't feel
the SS output was any better than the Transporter.
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achieve it.
>
> I'm very interested in the Simaudio Moon 380D when it becomes
> available. It's way more expensive, but I really love my 600i
> integrated and want to see what they do with Sabre DAC. Plus it will
> have a streaming music option.
Sou
of the MinMax to see how it
stacks up.
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us.
Realize that a lot of this depends on the hardware you're running the
server off of. In my case, it's a Core 2 Quad at 2.4GHz.
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Album/Tracks or [first letter of
> artist name]/Artist/Album/Tracks.
Mine is a very flat structure. Artist/artist-album. Seems vey fast!
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No problems here either with 44/48/88/96 and back and forth. Have used
numerous DAC's over the years from inexpensive "Zero DAC", Benchmark,
and various NOS DAC's.
Worse come to worse, you can upsample everything to 24/96 with a
custom-convert.conf f
Hi everyone... I hope by asking this question I'm not being "ageist" or
some such label. It really is out of curiosity and hopefully
interpretation of what is said and published in a public fashion.
We all know that audio reviewing is a subjective affair, therefore it is
reasonable I think to k
ralphpnj wrote:
> For the major US audiophile publications, Stereophile, I would venture a
> guess that the average age of the reviewers is somewhere around 50 to 55
> years old. However if one doesn't count the oldest and the youngest
> reviewer then the average age is more like 55 to 60 years o
ralphpnj wrote:
> That is only my guess and by no means accurate. A kind of like what
> Soulkeeper wrote only more tongue in cheek. Is there a smiley for
> "tongue in cheek"? To answer my own question, yes there is: :-J means
> tongue in cheek.
>
>
>
> That's true but I've yet to see a meaning
cliveb wrote:
> So your current connection is: Airport Express digital out > Transporter
> digital in.
>
> (Side issue: I don't see how you're using Inguz in this setup. Is there
> some kind of plugin that allows the Airport Express to appear as a
> Squeezebox player to LMS, and therefore allow
Over the years of building my digital music server, I've been adding
5.1/5.0/4.0 FLAC's along the way as I rip DVD-A and SACD's (haven't done
any Blu-Ray yet). They're either 24/96 or 24/88.
I looked at the directory today and see that I already have about 100
albums at this point of multichannel
Hey guys, thought I'd crosspost a little test I did last night which I
put up on Audio Asylum's Computer Audio section since it involves
SqueezePlay.
Can anyone tell me if the Mac SqueezePlay will actually play 24/96 or
will LMS SOX convert it to 24/48 or 16/48 when it's streamed to my Mac?
Orig
Mike Sargent wrote:
> Why not just use a $400 laptop (with HDMI out) and foobar2000 to drive
> it?
Cuz it'd be nice to integrate all the 5.1 music into one system like
LMS... Mainly though, it'd just be cool :-)
Archimag
Wow, that's a sad picture of ol' Stevie. Nonetheless, I really do like
his forum for general music discussion...
Did he ever try to clear himself of that "endorsement"??? :-)
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alfista wrote:
> By what method have the jitter been measured and how much did it
> improve?
Even without bringing out the 'measure' word, I'd like to know how the
OP KNOWS the mods affect jitter at all? I've tried all these years and
have never been convinced I've actually 'heard' jitter...
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SBGK wrote:
> I would be more persuaded by this torchured logic if the main proponents
> immediately saw the error of their ways and sold off their multi
> thousand $ dacs etc
>
> xx
Personally I know of 3 audiophile friends give up on expensive cables
and convert everything over to excellent
RonM wrote:
> So the question is why you or anyone else needs anything other than the
> SB device DAC (aside from the headphone amp). I suspect the Touch, and
> certainly the TP, is superior to the $200 China-made DAC.
>
> R.
For me, I have a DAC/headphone amp because the MacBook Pro's audio o
lachy.au wrote:
> Long time reader, first time poster.
>
> I'm a sound engineer from Australia, living and working in Hong Kong.
>
> Recently I've been working with a lot of hifi companies regarding a
> loudspeaker tuning system and have learnt a lot about audiophiles and
> the crazy gear avai
cliveb wrote:
> Using the word "fashion" hits the nail on the head. Extreme compression
> and peak limiting is the currently fashionable way to master recordings.
> But as we all know, fashions come and go.
>
Alas, this "fashion" has been going on now since ~1995! I was shocked
recently that t
Excellent answer Mnyb...
On a side note, is anyone still experiencing crackles and pops with high
level FLAC compression up to the standard level 8? On my server system,
I generally encode with dBpoweramp at FLAC -8 including 24/96 and
haven't noticed an issue in years that I would attribute to
Good question and one I've been curious about (simply because the plug
is there :-).
I can imagine with a complex studio setup, wordclock sync could be very
important... But for a straightforward playback chain, I'd love to read
any articles advocating this.
Here's an interesting article from a
Hey guys, it certainly seems like there has been a move in the hardware
world over the last few years towards having multiple filters on DAC's.
Looks like most of this is towards having a choice of intermediate and
minimal phase filters over the standard linear filter - everything from
relatively
Cool! Thanks for the SOX config line folks...
Will try tonight with the Transporter and have a listen. So far, do you
guys hear an improvement?
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JohnB wrote:
> It would work fine if 96000 was used, however, IMO if your music
> collection is mainly at a 44.1kHz sampling rate (e.g. CD derived) it
> makes much more sense to use 88200. Little if anything will be gained
> from using 96000 and the computational complexity of resampling from
> 4
Do you mean music streamers?
If so, I assume the Linn DS series must be high on the list. These will
play hi-res files up to 24/192. Have no idea how good the interface on
this works...
IMO, I still prefer the Transporter for its flexibility, capabilities
and very cool display :-). I'm also one
jh901 wrote:
> The top digital players are manufactured by dCS and their "ring DAC" is
> pretty much the king. For redbook only, the Naim CD-555 is world class.
> Those and many, many other players (excluding the many outboard DACs)
> have sound quality that will surpass the sound quality of the
michael123 wrote:
> Yes, I did it..
> It is quite simple..
Hmmm, Michael I'm assuming you recompiled SOX. Care to share it? You
can E-mail me at: psydoc2...@yahoo.com
Thanks!
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Hi everyone, I've been wondering this for awhile...
Is there any point in downloading 24-bit hi-res music IF the music is
already significantly dynamically compressed?
For example, I bought a couple recent HDTracks releases and ran them
through the DR meter in Foobar.
Ringo Starr - Ringo 2012 =
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
essentially every repu
Yup. Some of that gear IMO sounds different but not necessarily
accurate.
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I display the sample size and bit depth with my song titles...
server settings -> interface -> title format I use the string "TRACKNUM.
TITLE (ARTIST) [SAMPLESIZE/SAMPLERATE]"
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>
> That said perhaps the Sooloos system is equal to or even superior to the
> SB Touch/LMS system but at $10,000 I will never find out. In any event
> the Sooloos system is far less flexible on the computer hardware side.
Ralph,
Curious what's so special about the Sooloos stuff
ralphpnj wrote:
> Thanks for the link - a very interesting and eye opening read. The link
> to the Meridian Sooloos site
> (http://www.meridian-audio.com/sooloos/index.php) features a very nice
> video of how the Sooloos system works, complete with a British accented
> voice over. For those of yo
Hey guys, just put up this same topic over at Audio Asylum (Computer
Audio section). Got into a discussion with a few of the inmates there so
figure I'd take the opportunity to collect some data and see...
Please participate and spread the link around the audiophile watering
holes; would love to
Julf wrote:
> Unfortunately there is still the possibility that people will look at
> the spectrum analysis of the files (that very clearly shows which one is
> the mp3), but claim they could hear the difference.
I thought of that too... Tried to mitigate this as much as possible.
Give it a tr
Mnyb wrote:
> Yeah , but being positive most will not cheat ? And if they cheat :
>
> 1. This will feel uncomfortable for the cheater as he (it is sadly
> mostly he in audio ) have to cheat to nail the test ,then maybe that
> experience will force him to maybe not be so sure in his position .
>
jimbobvfr400 wrote:
> Nice idea, I'm definitely going to try this.
>
> How have you tagged the files? Just so I can find them once scanned by
> LMS.
>
> Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
Sorry jimbo, didn't tag them simply cuz I didn't want to make any
mistake and just keep them nice as
azinck3 wrote:
> A similar experiment was conducted on a popular programming blog.
>
> The introduction:
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/the-great-mp3-bitrate-experiment.html
>
> The results:
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-great-mp3-bitrate-experiment.html
Just an observation so far...
Some of the harshest critics of MP3 are also the ones refusing to test
the assertion. Unfortunate.
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I like this article comparing PCM vs. DSD.
http://www.craigmandigital.com/education/PCM_vs_DSD.aspx
I think it makes the point very clear in pictures. Certainly fits with
the description of the nature of how DSD sounds.
Ar
azinck3 wrote:
> Yes, I found some software a few years back that did this. I tested a
> wide variety of source material on a very nice set of headphones at the
> radio station I worked at and found I couldn't distinguish anything
> above 160kbps VBR mp3s from the original WAVs.
Get foobar2000
ralphpnj wrote:
> I assume that everyone who has posted in this thread has read or at
> least scanned the Audiostream piece linked to in the first post. What I
> found most upsetting about the piece is that Mr. Lavorgna, who appears
> to be one of the few "good guys" writing for Stereophile, does
jh901 wrote:
> PCM (redbook), hi-res PCM, SACD/DSDwhatever!! When will any of us
> turn our attention to the mastering engineer? I'll bet dollars to
> doughnuts that I have dozens of good old redbook CDs pressed (and
> mastered) before 1988 which smoke that latest and greatest.
Absolutely
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