Mnyb;678108 Wrote:
Is not the amp a limiting factor if it goes to protection that easy ?
Normally you don't hear amps that much when they work properly .
But you sure do when you get close to thier operational limits be it
power,voltage,current or whatever.
Some amps dislike the
Mnyb;678107 Wrote:
...Thats why you should have your own files if quality is a concern :)
99.9998 % of the user base would not recognize sq if it bit them in
thier behind.
Lossy compression is even less good on embedded devices with small cpu
and no fpu unit, so the decoders has some
When I switched the impedence in the Sony's menu to 4 ohm, the shutdown
problem disappeared. The unit sounds very good most of the time, but I
still have occasional distortion in the very high vocal registers. When
I play my iTunes library through the Touch, I don't hear any distortion
so I'm
CEBJr;677985 Wrote:
When I switched the impedence in the Sony's menu to 4 ohm, the shutdown
problem disappeared. The unit sounds very good most of the time, but I
still have occasional distortion in the very high vocal registers. When
I play my iTunes library through the Touch, I don't
Is not the amp a limiting factor if it goes to protection that easy ?
Normally you don't hear amps that much when they work properly .
But you sure do when you get close to thier operational limits be it
power,voltage,current or whatever.
Some amps dislike the reactive nature of some
My Pandora feeds are pretty good, considering. For a while I was using
the XM plug-in -- and I was having the HF distortion mentioned above.
I upgraded my receiver to a Denon AVR-3808CI with built-in XM. Problem
gone.
The OP has really fine speakers but the 4 ohm impedence may be a
problem
Well, I've done nearly everything except the Pandora/non-Pandora track
comparison. I replaced some bad wire, replaced the old SB with a
Touch, replaced the Toslink cable with RCA cables, and switched the
speaker impedance setting on the receiver to 4 ohms (the VA speakers
are 4 ohms). Now I
Mnyb;675321 Wrote:
Is there any digital input on that reciever you could try ?
I'm using a fiberoptic cable from the receiver to the SB. Logitech
tells me that doing it that way bypasses the DAC in the SB so it's
using the DAC in the receiver. I haven't any idea about the quality of
the
Option two is cheap, quick and easy. So I think you should try it and
see.
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Do you only hear it when listening to Pandora and not when listening to
similar music ripped from your own CDs to a lossless format like FLAC?
If so, then it's most likely the lossy encoding of the audio stream.
Pandora streamed to the Squeezebox is a poor 128 kbps. High
frequencies, in
Soulkeeper;675404 Wrote:
Option two is cheap, quick and easy. So I think you should try it and
see.
Edit to add:
It just struck me. These two statements:
... and ...
... contradict each other. Either you're using an analog (RCA or jack)
cable plugged into the aux input, or you're
bhaagensen;675305 Wrote:
One thing to try is resetting the Xilinx. Dona search for the procedure
- its something like holding 1 on the remote while plugging the device
in. Fixed a similar problem with my SB3 once.
I reset the Xilinx. It sounds better, now, but I need to do the
comparisons
JJZolx;675414 Wrote:
Do you only hear it when listening to Pandora and not when listening to
similar music ripped from your own CDs to a lossless format like FLAC?
If so, then it's most likely the lossy encoding of the audio stream.
Pandora streamed to the Squeezebox is a poor 128 kbps.
CEBJr;675446 Wrote:
I have a Pandora subscription, which raises the bit rate to 192.
Sadly, through the Squeezebox it doesn't. :(
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91926
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85386
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63653
CEBJr;675441 Wrote:
I reset the Xilinx. It sounds better, now, but I need to do the
comparisons recommended in other posts. It's difficult to do that
given that I can't call up a particular song on Pandora, so I have to
wait until one overdrives and then see if I have a copy of my own.
You
JJZolx;675447 Wrote:
Sadly, through the Squeezebox it doesn't. :(
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91926
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85386
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63653
See? I told you I don't know anything. You didn't believe
I think they may even use a mix of MP3 and AAC. If you google around
there's some mention of them using 64kbps(!) AAC.
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All the artefacts of 128kpbs stream must be revealed by that setup!
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I'm new to the forums and would appreciate some advice about how best to
correct a problem with my system. The system consists of a SlimDevices
Squeezebox, v.2, a Sony DA4300ES AV Receiver, Vienna Acoustics Haydn
Grands (4), and VA Maestro Grand center. I play classical, choral,
jazz, and folk.
Welcome. I can't give you any specific advice, but I do recommend that
you set the volume on the SB much closer to 100%, and turn down the
volume on your Sony receiver. The SB doesn't have to go all the way to
100%, but get it up at least to 80%. This is a general recommendation
for all SBs, as
One other thing to be aware of in addition to running your SB volume at
or near 100% is you should not plug your SB into the phono jacks on
your receiver, but instead Aux, Tape or something other than Phono. The
Phono RIAA EQ curve is way different than other inputs and cause bad
listening
One thing to try is resetting the Xilinx. Dona search for the procedure
- its something like holding 1 on the remote while plugging the device
in. Fixed a similar problem with my SB3 once.
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bhaagensen
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It's plugged into an Aux jack. (Somewhere in the dim past I read to
plug only a turntable into the phono jack.) I turned the SB volume up
to 95. It sounds much better, but now it goes into Protect mode at
about minus 10dB. Tomorrow I'll call Crutchfield (where I got the
receiver) and ask what
Is there any digital input on that reciever you could try ?
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Mnyb
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x
MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3
sub.
Did you try to listen to the same music from your local library?
I don't know Pandora but maybe the music you where listening to was a
low quality mp3 file. These files often sound a bit metallic in the
high end.
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2 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom and 1 x SB Radio - all wireless
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