Well I never! The thing sounds great (punchy sound with lots of stereo
separation) and is considerably louder than the 50watt rms convention
Yamaha amp I had used previously.
I've never been one to subscribe to amps making a huge difference to
sound quality. But, (as with class a valve amps)
JJZolx wrote:
Do I understand correctly - the Wandboard will actually be a part of the
final design? I thought it was being talked about in the context of some
kind of proof of concept or reference from which the SB clone's design
would be derived.
The wandboard is two boards, a core
This seems to be a nice multipurpose speaker
http://www.jblpro.com/catalog/general/Product.aspx?PId=195MId=5
The controll one spec says 87dB at 1w sensitivity but it is a 4 ohm
speaker .
To me it means two things .
The amp should be really stable at 4ohm or preferably a bit lower , the
ModelCitizen wrote:
Well I never! The thing sounds great (punchy sound with lots of stereo
separation) and is considerably louder than the 50watt rms convention
Yamaha amp I had used previously.
I've never been one to subscribe to amps making a huge difference to
sound quality. But, (as
JohnSwenson wrote:
The wandboard is two boards, a core CPU/memory module and a carrier
board, with peripheral connectors etc.
My current thinking is to use the wandboard module as the cpu subsystem
of our product. I will then design a carrier board which contains the
DAC, low jitter
Sorry to cast a sour note about how this project is evolving.
It seems to me that there's a danger of putting all the eggs in one
basket by choosing one specific board. The 'success' of squeezelite is
due in part to the fact that it can run on a wide range of devices (in
the same way LMS
Mnyb wrote:
Many people actually likes the sound of class d amps ,but I thinks it s
due to the fact that they have an audible sonic signature and given the
specs it will be heard all the time , so I'm not surprised that these
amps makes a difference .
Output impedance is usually a bit high
castalla wrote:
It seems to me that there's a danger of putting all the eggs in one
basket by choosing one specific board. The 'success' of squeezelite is
due in part to the fact that it can run on a wide range of devices (in
the same way LMS does).
I'm not a technical geek, but it
castalla wrote:
Sorry to cast a sour note about how this project is evolving.
It seems to me that there's a danger of putting all the eggs in one
basket by choosing one specific board. The 'success' of squeezelite is
due in part to the fact that it can run on a wide range of devices (in
I just got to know the Aupeo music service through Sonos and it would be
really great if there was a plugin for the SBs.
Anyone working on that?
I know one can make it work via iPeng, but a real plugin would be a lot
better.
Sorry to be so thicko ... so is it still going to be based on LMS?
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Audiophilia. It's a strange thing. Many strive for the perfect
uncoloured sound... but its my experience that the perfect uncoloured
sound can be dead and emotionless (for me the Transporter fitted this
description exactly). Naim stuff definitely colours the music but boy,
does it sound good (OK,
Julf wrote:
Let's not paint all class D amps with the same broad brush...
I know ;) my generalisation is about the typical chip amps of the net +
some others . There are exceptions .
NAD is for example building a completely different beast , they are
aware of the impedance issue and have
ModelCitizen wrote:
I did the same thing and ended up buying this extremely small class d
amp. Its a real beauty. Great sound and lots of welly. Fantastic value
at £40 from eBay or Amazon.
Mini Audio Amplifier Muse M50 TPA3123 T-Amp 50W RMS
I use one of these too - excellent running
castalla wrote:
Sorry to be so thicko ... so is it still going to be based on LMS?
Yes - the software player is squeezelite which uses LMS to control it
(though could evolve to remove this requirement if there is interest)
The Muse suggestion is really a variant of my Topping TP-20 MK 2 (see my
original post). Realistically around 10W per channel into 8 ohms
without excessive distortion. Nice sound but still looking for more
grunt. T-class seems to top out (s'cuse pun) at the TP-60 which looks
like around 30W
Mnyb wrote:
I know ;) my generalisation is about the typical chip amps of the net +
some others . There are exceptions.
I know what you mean - just had to pitch in. My main system uses 400W
class D amp modules from Hypex. Output impedance 1 milliohm :)
A 5w amp is a 5w amp , I do not buy
HMM,
I am a bit stuck making decisions at the moment...
I really like the Sonos, it is so reliable and searches etc. are
instant. Great system!
But,
having been a Squeezboxer it is hard to change over.
The main thing that drives nuts about SB is LMS running on Squeezeplug.
Searches can be
Squeezemenicely wrote:
The main thing that drives nuts about SB is LMS running on Squeezeplug.
Searches can be very slow, sudden restarts of the Server etc. Then
having to wait till it is available again.
When I started with squeezeboxes I used a woefully underpowered readynas
duo. It
Triode wrote:
Yes - the software player is squeezelite which uses LMS to control it
(though could evolve to remove this requirement if there is interest)
Works for most anyway, if you have an iSomething Android or squeezebox
controller or as you say the web interface it will work as an
Squeezemenicely wrote:
HMM,
I am a bit stuck making decisions at the moment...
I really like the Sonos, it is so reliable and searches etc. are
instant. Great system!
But,
having been a Squeezboxer it is hard to change over.
The main thing that drives nuts about SB is LMS
Squeezemenicely wrote:
HMM,
The main thing that drives nuts about SB is LMS running on Squeezeplug.
Searches can be very slow, sudden restarts of the Server etc. Then
having to wait till it is available again.
Since you've chosen LMS on Squeezeplug, you might have concerns about
power
AdamsApple
A little nod to Sean Adams in the name
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http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4611.pdf
I am a simple photographer which makes these infos far to complicated
for me to get into my brain.
Does this infos mean that we need to ? the science (Fourier) invloved in
digital audio (PCM) because it doesn't do a good enough job (compared to
ear) of
Kellen wrote:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4611.pdf
I am a simple photographer which makes these infos far to complicated
for me to get into my brain.
Does this infos mean that we need to ? the science (Fourier) invloved in
digital audio (PCM) because it doesn't do a good enough job
Mnyb wrote:
Can some one explain that paper ?
I can´t, sorry. What i can say for sure is that my hearing didn´t change
after i did read about it ;)
So an abx test that was not valid some weeks ago is not suddenly valid.
Wombat wrote:
I can´t, sorry. What i can say for sure is that my hearing didn´t change
after i did read about it ;)
So an abx test that was not valid some weeks ago is not suddenly valid.
Well if it did you would fit a certain category ;)
Your logic is impecible it is ofcourse that this (
Kellen wrote:
Does this infos mean that we need to ? the science (Fourier) invloved in
digital audio (PCM) because it doesn't do a good enough job (compared to
ear) of representing the analogue signal that digital is asked to
capture?
No. That paper is concerned about discerning phase
A little bird told me a secret :)
For those of us in the USAyou can find the wandboard at the
following online distributor (although it will not be shipping for a
week or two):
Wandboard (both versions)
Mnyb wrote:
Suppose an interface would actualy be a lot of work equipping it with a
touch screen and using SqueezePlay code . Or even more work if a new UI
would be invented .
I'm looking at what it would take to do a hdmi based interface, possibly
based on a evolution of some of the
How daunting a challenge would a touch-screen interface be? I don't know
how standard touch-panels are, or if there are standard drivers. It
seems like it might be a lot of work, but eventually having a user
interface built-in would be great. Then again, the SB3 UI consists of a
display plus IR
Wow, it really looks like this is actually gonna happen soon. I cannot
tell you how impressed I am.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Just having a little box that can be hidden away, like the receiver
would be more than enough.
tcutting wrote:
How daunting a challenge would a touch-screen interface be? I don't know
how standard touch-panels are, or if there are standard drivers. It
seems like it might be a lot of work, but eventually having a user
interface built-in would be great. Then again, the SB3 UI consists
I have installed this app and signed up to Deezer - Discovery mode at
the moment. The app on the ipad (squeezepad) or on the web shows two
options Web Radio/ Smart Radio. How do these work. I searched for Barb
Junge and got one track using smart Radio. On the Deezer web page I got
much more.
Triode wrote:
The player requires separate installation of codecs files and if
installed will play wav/aiff, flac, mp3, ogg and aac streams.
What would be the best way to do this, and how do you inform Squeezelite
that appropriate codecs are indeed installed? I'm on OS X, and flacs
play
For the pas two days, I have been unable to access Sirius XM via LMS.
The error I get is:
500 Can't connect to sirius1.service.zing.net:443 (Bad hostname
'sirius1.service.zing.net')
I saw a thread from last year with the same issue. Is anyone else
seeing this or know how to get around the
DaveWr wrote:
Squeezebox Server - iPeng on iPad (with player mode) - Airport Express
( via Airplay )
No iTunes.
So it can be done? Does it play bitperfect high-res FLAC? How does the
music get to the AE? Via the iPad, or direct from the server with
transcoding?
JWadle wrote:
For the past two days, I have been unable to access Sirius XM via LMS.
The error I get is:
500 Can't connect to sirius1.service.zing.net:443 (Bad hostname
'sirius1.service.zing.net')
I saw a thread from last year with the same issue. Is anyone else
seeing this or know
Some general comments on recent posts: I've been thinking about things
like IR receivers and blasters would probably be better served with USB
interfaced hardware. They are readily available and LIRC already has
drivers to deal with most of them. It makes the hardware simpler, and it
means we
Triode wrote:
I'm looking at what it would take to do a hdmi based interface, possibly
based on a evolution of some of the squeezeplay code. The reason hdmi
is interesting to me is that several linux devices (wandboard, pi,
cubox) have hdmi output, though not all have IR. [I'm hoping John
Since I'm going to start designing the Gen0.5 boards in couple days, I
wanted to go into a little detail on what I'm planning on doing and what
the specific goals are for this board. So if there are changes desired I
can get the concepts in before I get too far in the board design.
As I see it
All of a sudden, I am not getting any sound from either the optical or
RCA inputs on my Transporter. I was getting sound from a CD player
connected via the optical chord until now. To test, I hooked up the
same CD player via the digital RCA chord. Then I switched to another CD
player; still
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