[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bryston BDP-2 as a squeezebox client

This thread caught my attention. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=110296.620 Anyone know more\had any experience with this? MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View th

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

This is a really interesting thread. For the Sox illiterate, how easy would it be to apply and test these filters on-the-fly within SqueezeCenter? MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

? Thanks MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

Thanks Phil/Micheal. I'll have a play tonight. Since sox is currently used to downsample hi-rez files for 24/94 incapable players there must be a way of flagging file handling on a per player basis. MS -- MadScie

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

case) and preferably to 16/44 files. I would be extremely gratful for suggestions (or the code) from the programmers out there as to how best to implement this? Pretty please. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

a given flac file. Am I doing something stupid? MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

well spotted! MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

michael123;506983 Wrote: > What is the output type? flac? Yes, flac of highly varaibale levels of compression which suggest that something is wrong. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

not sure I can give a considered opinion yet. First impression was that it sounded a bit harsher than the 16/44 control. There is definately something wrong with the encoding however! MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's P

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

d and the soundstage wider :-( Have you tried applying the filter outside of SC using a batch file similar to that used in Post 14? I'm interested to know if you get a constant file size in the output for a given input file? MS -- MadScientist --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

michael123;514560 Wrote: > I just tried what you asked for: 3 times out of 3 I got exactly the same > size > > -- Michael Thanks Michael. Could you please post the code you used for the batch file? Are you converting wav to flac or flac to flac? MS --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

Sorry, I didn't express myself very well. Where I want to get to is to adapt your filter from Post 79 for converting flac to flac. I want to do this via batch file so I can do A/B tests. MS -- MadScie

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Antipodal filtering

Thanks, I'll have a play tomorrow. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Firmware 83?

I missing? MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76151 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Firmware 83?

Thanks for the link - I should have done a search.From the log it looked like it was available MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3+ External DAC or Transporter...

sxr71;420155 Wrote: > Sounds like a quick and dirty downsample to 24/48. Those older posts are no longer accurate as 24/96 material is now properly downsampled in SqueezeCenter for the SB3 by a Sox application. MS -- MadScient

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter woes

(considered choice of words here), I feel that nothing is going to happen quickly. I hope my experience isn't typical. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter woes

Thanks for all the advice - I think I'm making progress on this one after discovering a few irregularities in the story being offered by my retailer. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter woes

You've got me worried now. I thought QC would be good enough on this sort of product to make the chances of getting two defective units vary rare. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimd

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter woes

Well, I finally got a functioning Transporter and it performing really well. The analogue output into my headphone amp is the biggest improvement over my SB3. MadScientist;421475 Wrote: > > The retailer (who are doing their best and with whom I have no > complaints) are now tryi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Q:Hearing Test

pment you are using to reproduce the various frequencies. If you do use your main system be careful not to crank up the volume in order to hear the higher frequecies as it's very easy to fry your tweaters. MS -- MadScientist

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Oh My, Is All WiFi Limited to 16/44.1

I think you have been misinformed. WiFi is not limited (Edit: within the restriction of bandwidth that it, but certainly not to 16/44.1) -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Help - distorted sounds!

back for an exchange which eventually happened. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apodizing Filters in Perfect Wave DAC and Hopefully Meridian Preamps

nd an easy way of getting the spdif output of my Transporter into the hdmi input of my HD621, I could test it myself. Very frustrating! MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter to pre- or poweramp

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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New filters for Transporter

Can't see it as a Transporter upgrade - such (apodising) filters require a not insignificant amount of processing power. There's a related, recent thread covering apodising flters on the PerfectWave DACs several threads below MS -- Ma

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: An audiophile forum without an Audiophile SB!!! Let's define our needs!

OK, two versions: a player with a high-end DAC and a transport without the DAC. I'd go for the latter as I could't do without the room correction on my pre-amp. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist'

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: UK Transporters

tened to it in his vest in a vain attempt to keep cool." So, you have to re-arrange the furniture for the Transporter to sound better than the SB3! Sorry, but this sounds like a load of audiophile b*ks to me! MS -- Ma

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

Well, for those who wish to try it, there should be available material shortly.I remain open minded about the format but if it encourges better audio mastering practices that has to be a bonus. http://www.audiostream.com/content/what-mqa#iWT9o5sylEKO2eO3.97 -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 into Meridian DSP5000's?

d.com/ubbthreads//ubbthreads.php/ubb/cfrm -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p