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t, although the Touch's analog
output is very good, the Touch offers a much better upgrade path. Use
the Touch without a DAC to start and then add a DAC later.
The Touch's analog output is far superior to that of the receiver and
the Touch works great with a Controller. After you get the T
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if wired try this:
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Now don't you wish you had that button?
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n how to mitigate these very serious
issues adversely affecting the sound if we don't even know whether or
not you have salt or fresh water fish tanks?
On a related note: why can't we get a BS emoticon? It would save vast
amounts of unnecessary typing.
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>
> What's the maximum distance for cat5, can't remember ?
The maximum length for Cat5 (and Cat5e) cable is listed as 100 meters
(328 feet). Unless you live in a rather large house I would guess that
the run you describe is somewhat less than 100 meters. Go for it.
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100mbps maximum rated speed of Cat5e cable.
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the storage.
> I use Lime unRaid box, I have 60MBytes/sec on read, and 30MBytes/sec on
> writes
Exactly my point! 60MBytes/sec is a little more than half of
100MBytes/sec and nowhere near 1000MBytes/sec, which is supposed to be
the speed for Gigabit Ethernet.
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et (primarily Netflix) and it works great. Worth being
on your short list should you decide to the streaming video route.
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Tunes to recognize flac files, getting SBS to play high
resolution Apple lossless files and many other of the seemingly endless
problems I've read about in trying to get Macs to deal with high
resolution audio files.
Proposed title for the new section: Bad Apples
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ly released
digital version, particularly in the case of reason #3 above.
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overkill and more of a "because it can" rather an issue of sound
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planet who could pass such a
> test.
Absolutely DEAD WRONG!!! There are people who can hear the difference
(however I don't know if they could pass a DBT) and they are the same
people who buy this USB cable:
http://www.musicdirect.com/p-16241-audioquest-diamond-usb.aspx
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Phil Leigh;635457 Wrote:
> Hilarious :-)
>
> ... and do computers understand "nuances"...?
Only computers which operate at super high resolution. And of course
Macs only understand iNuance.
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ictures:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=536304&postcount=3
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;loosening off"
Only the British. I love the expressions you English gentlemen come up
with. Very colorful(sic) indeed.
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> ;)
>
> Chris :)
Yanks: pissed means mad or angry at something or someone
Brits: pissed means inebriated and ???
Please educate me on the Queen's slang.
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nk that are bigger differences
between Cockney accent and a Southern American accent than between some
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mon parlance,
> like wot I talks :D
>
> Chris :)
Once again you're quite right. I should have said British English
rather than the Queen's English. Now me I grew up speaking Brooklynese,
as in dirty tree or thirty three, as you Englishish would say. But I
types good Englis
4.1kHz) files? Both the Transporter and the Touch can handle up
to 24bit/96kHz resolution files so make part of the test be between
DVD-Audio and SACD playback versus high resolution wav/flac file
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laying back the same high resolution material sourced from a little
sliver disc. I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised at the
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ible to tell the difference between the
Transporter and a similarly priced, i.e. not a mega-buck,
SACD/DVD-Audio disc player also playing a high resolution, i.e. SACD or
DVD-Audio, disc.
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quality between a Touch running a full version of SBS and one running
Tiny SBS.
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;English Settlement" album. The best tracks for audio
evaluation would be:
1) "Senses Working Overtime" - ability to resolve fine detail as in the
background voices singing on the chorus.
2) "It's Nearly Africa" - bass, both initial attack and control, via
the heavy d
and actually prefers the wav/flac files over the CD. Then
truly justice would be served.
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I've been a very happy Simaudio owner for quite a few years so I'm a bit
partial to that manufacturer. Check their web site for detailed
information. Their Moon series integrated amps are very well reviewed
and recommended.
http://www.simaudio.com/moonaudio.htm
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Lock,
After you've read through that almost useless review check out the
comments posted on the Stereophile forum. On that forum my user name is
"jazzfan".
http://forum.stereophile.com/content/brystin-bdp-1-review
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96kHz! As I said, pure, unfiltered
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Wombat;638529 Wrote:
> Linn products are said to have an own signature. Some like it, some
> not.
> When your seller only offers the Linn for listening and says all others
> sound worse i´d look for another seller.
I couldn't agree more.
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0 PC sound card in an $1800 aircraft quality machined
aluminum jacket.
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some other type of
connection available. If I'm mistaken about any of this please don't
hesitate to correct me.
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omment!
That is my understanding as well. Why this fascination with and
fixation on USB? Could it have anything to do with Macs and Apples?
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ections and therefore should be avoided rather than embraced.
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> Based on my limited understanding, I agree with you. Which is why I feed
> DACs with S/PDIF
That's one. Anyone else care to weigh in?
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companies and the high end press) making sure that no one ever finds
out about it, with the cable companies leading the way.
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While each of us has their own favorite high end audio nonsense phrase
my personal favorite is:
"Front panel machined from a solid piece of aircraft quality
aluminum."
What's yours?
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hile forum (which, btw is slowly dying) and many of those
forum members hold the same misguided and outdated beliefs as Toy
Maker's golden eared friends.
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> The turntable w/o cartridge is a "bargain" at $30,000
Perhaps you mean "without a tonearm and cartridge" - now that's really
quite a bargain.
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Phil Leigh;639263 Wrote:
> ... enhanced micro-dynamics...
Wow a double winner since first of all what the heck are micro-dynamics
and just how does something enhance something that may not actually
exist to begin with.
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> "reach-out-and-touch the performers"
I'll make sure to buy that system right before I get the new Lindsey
Lohan CD!
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your friend's Touch. Perhaps you meant that the Touch could not
find an external drive connected directly to the Touch itself?
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arm and cartridge, setting up a phono pre-amp (moving
magnet or moving coil), cleaning the stylus, clamping down the record,
cuing up and lowering the needle and finally playing the record.
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;s it - now all those nasty noise particles will be sent into the
blacker than black audio abyss.
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bout just how great the "cloud" will
be. Then offer low prices to get people to start using the cloud. And
finally once people become dependent on cloud based computing raise the
rates for people to access THEIR OWN DATA!
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g files easily between my work
> computer, laptop, and ipad, etc. But still, I want my own copies!
You forgot to add: "...and to keep some of my own money!"
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magiccarpetride;639541 Wrote:
> iCloud?
Remember that iCloud is only one iVirus away from iDisaster.
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the "dot com bubble". I love reruns.
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cloud based system
is not a very good idea. Now tell me, just what teeny tiny percentage of
cloud users do you think will have any local storage, intelligent or
otherwise?
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> You mean Sony Playstation?
Not exactly but that's the general idea.
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spell "colour" with the letter "u"
they are British and if they don't, i.e. "colour" is spelled "color",
then they are not British. Everything else is just niggling.
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adamdea;639757 Wrote:
> Good luck explaining that in Cork.
Maybe but as an American I'm only concerned with how well it plays in
Peoria.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_it_play_in_Peoria%3F
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wer current would harm the digital
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TiredLegs;640520 Wrote:
> For speakers, my favorite nonsense phrase is "fast bass".
Don't forget "over hang", whatever that is supposed to mean.
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strument strings, such reverberations are
> desirable (even essential), but not for speaker drivers.
Got it but now does "a very brief pulse being sent to the driver, after
the pulse has ended, the driver continues to reverberate for a period of
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of the album title using the MP3Tag program. I do not keep the hi-rez
in a separate folder.
When I'm looking for something hi-rez I just search for albums with
"24bit" in the title. Works great.
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standard resolution CD?
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> ^^^ in other words...crap! ;)
Perhaps a big ripoff would be more and accurate and truthful.
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d is not
dynamically compressed. Or as you put it, is no longer crap.
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th paying for.
I like that idea. Too bad they will never do it.
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he vast majority of audiophiles
stuck in the land of myths. So how do we get this information into
their hands?
And finally why stop at 24/384? How about 96bit/6144Khz? Yes, onward
and upward to perfect resolution!!!
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Tunes will never support this extreme sampling rate so the
whole idea is dead in the water.
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&#
t of hard drives for 1 second of music!
But who knows maybe at that resolution even the standard audiophile
dreck might sound good. HP's super disc list might actually become
worthwhile, Nah, nothing can save that garbage!
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o these
hi-rez recordings also have crackles, pops and audible surface noise?
And last but not least does the dynamic range also decrease as the
resolution goes up? Maybe than digital will be the equal of vinyl.
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it's refreshing to head over to this forum to get a nice dose of
reality.
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HP is followed closely by Stereophile's own Michael
Fremer. Yes it is possible to demagnetize vinyl!
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B cables.
Old USB cable: zero = :(
New USB cable: zero = :)
Old USB: one = Z
new USB cable: one = 1
What more proof would one want or need?
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eone will come out with a hard or flash drive
specially made of audio and which "sounds" better than all other hard
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3) Other than speed and dropouts is wireless streaming sonically
inferior to wired streaming?
Please answer these questions and if possible include relevant links.
Also feel free to add any other digital audio myths that you can think
of, with or without an answer.
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ere you have to bring real prove
> according to their TOS and Mods watching it, not on Slimdevices.
> Just my opinion of cause.
Perhaps you are correct. I'm going to explore the Hydrogenaudio site
and see if there are reasonable answers to some of these questions.
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could answer that question
it would be most helpful.
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slink or fiber optic and USB)
that USB is the most problematic. Therefore is this focus on USB DACs
justified?
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an be implemented so as not to be problematic, which is good
but again I ask how does this compare to Coaxial S/PDIF & toslink? Do
these connections require similar design features to overcome inherent
flaws or do they work "straight out of the box"?
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to raise the USB cable off the floor. Only then will
the music and the magic come to life!
Oops I forgot to mention the external hard drive which holds the music
files must have gold plated platters and a $1,000 linear power supply.
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en to low bit rate lossy compressed
internet radio streams? And enjoy it!?!?!
I almost never listen to internet audio because it sounds so poor. Give
me a properly made flac file any day. Oh wait, flac doesn't exist in the
Apple centric universe of these reviewers. Oh well, lossy mp3s it is
th
m
the fact that dead air (silence) and very quiet musical passages mean
losing listeners so DR compression is applied to help ensure that the
quiet passages are loud enough to be hear in an automobile, among
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cunobelinus;660613 Wrote:
> ALAC does, though, and that's not lossy either
True. Apple does offer ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) however,
unlike flac (FREE Lossless audio codec) Lc is not open source. Enough
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en source formats. The risk is small but it
> does exist.
>
> I own an iPad (and it is a great piece of hardware) but I will NEVER
> use AAC or ALAC - I use mp3/wav on that device instead. For the same
> reason I avoid WMA like the plague too.
> YMMV of course.
Thanks Phil, you s
stantaneously consigned to
> him without pause for Purgatory.
>
> > For the same
> > reason I avoid WMA like the plague too.
>
> A recommendation as apposite to WMA as to clichés.
>
And thought that Apple fanboys were a wholly American phenomenon. Sorry
to learn tha
only the more intelligent Americans
> have a sense of humour and refrain from foolishly insulting people of
> whom they know nothing.
I know enough, fanboy.
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ose who are ignorant of
the alternatives." ;)
Doesn't everyone know and realize that the world revolves around (an)
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s often a welcome tonic to these
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is worthless and realize
that easy access to content is the real King. The iTunes, iBook and
iApp stores are perfect examples of places where access to content is
more of a money maker than the content itself.
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an a content producer. Case in point, the iTunes store has
been making lots of money while the content producers, i.e. the record
labels, have been losing money.
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> Let the customer decide their own destiny.
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96kHz (MAX)
Main Amp : TI - TAS5706
ADC Chip : Cirrus - CS5343
USB Chip : CMedia - CM102
Receiver : TI - DIR9001
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at one end and banana plugs on the
other end.
Until I saw the BJ III I too had never seen RJ-45 connectors used for
speakers so I guess it is "some new thing". But at least the BJ III
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very good points, to which I say then don't buy the Big Joe III ;)
All kidding aside, it does seem strange that the manufacturer decided
to go with the RJ-45 connectors when there are many other inexpensive
speaker output options available.
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g journey home
especially after a stop at the local pub for a pint or two. But swaying
on the way to work? Then again you appear to work evenings so perhaps
you're getting a head start on those pints :)
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hed out. Mind you this was all very unscientific and highly
suggestive. All three versions sounded very good but I would give the
edge to the 24/96 or the vinyl over the CD.
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d the basic soundstage and
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Wombat;670254 Wrote:
> May i ask what version of the CD you used? There are several.
I haven't a clue since I borrowed the CD from the library quite some
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heater-in-a-box system will always sound bad, as
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reophile. After
all for $700 one can a buy Squeezebox Touch ($250) and a cheap desktop
or laptop computer and have a system to play digital audio files with
varying sample rates. Heck one could leave out the computer all
together and just use a USB hard drive or flash drive connected to the
Touch.
nd credible . And of-course audiophiles prize it virtues
> and it is widely used on hifi shows, a clear warning sign to me.
Two answers so far and both on basically the same page as me, i.e. that
Amarra is a waster of $700. Anyone else care to weigh in?
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four part on computer audio, which based on the first part, will go a
long way towards cementing, rather than dispelling, all the those crazy
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ppo Blu-Ray/DVD player, or assigning
a review to a whole unqualified reviewer, as was the case with the
Bryston BDP-1 review.
And that's not even touching on their outright worship of all things
Apple. But as RG stated "Don't get me started!"
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hy some digital things sound better!
Very true except that at least on this forum when someone states
something stupid there are usually plenty of other members crying
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