Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Flac decoding at nas or at touch... Can I adjust that?

2012-10-05 Thread Soulkeeper
Don't forget that you're addressing someone who talks about bit-perfectness as if it was a relative concept. Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Flac decoding at nas or at touch... Can I adjust that?

2012-10-05 Thread pippin
OK, I can't resist. I know this will probably convince nobody, but while doing the high-sample-rate audio stuff n iPeng I got quite a bit of experience with FLAC vs. PCM handling and also quite a bit of testing mileage. And of course an iPhone is not a Touch and it's of course always on WiFi.

[SlimDevices: Touch] Playlist sort order - messed up

2012-10-05 Thread syrah
I've been using LMS 7.7.2 for a while now without any major dramas. Usually, if I add (say three) albums from the left pane to the playlist on the right pane - all the songs in album 1 would be displayed in order first, followed by all the songs in album 2, and then the songs in album 3. A few

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Playlist sort order - messed up

2012-10-05 Thread garym
syrah wrote: I've been using LMS 7.7.2 for a while now without any major dramas. Usually, if I add (say three) albums from the left pane to the playlist on the right pane - all the songs in album 1 would be displayed in order first, followed by all the songs in album 2, and then the songs in

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Playlist sort order - messed up

2012-10-05 Thread syrah
thanks mate, that was the problem. you can't imagine how peevish i feel right now. muchos gracias. syrah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54856 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Disable WLAN on Squeezebox Touch

2012-10-05 Thread nyaskivor
If someone built an (official/unofficial) update of the software. Updated with the function WLAN on/off. That would be so nice. Like an app in the server but in this case the tiny Touch server. I would definitely buy such an app even if it's open software...

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread SBGK
garym wrote: This thread is starting to remind me of a posting I really like from another forum regarding the typical audiophile response to being questioned about his beliefs: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=92856view=findpostp=785522 Repeated below:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread SBGK
Pascal Hibon wrote: Windows 7 users might want to read this: -There is a gross problem with the Windows 7 RECORD Sample Rate Converter. This problem actually dates back to Windows Vista, and is also a problem with Windows Server 2008. This problem causes spectral contamination of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread SBGK
garym wrote: OK. Aubuti and I just don't understand because we're either too lazy, too stupid, or too poor. But SBGK understands your points. 'nuff said. ;-) ad homimem attacks, Gary, I think you have lost the argument.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread ralphpnj
SBGK wrote: funny how other forums look at hydrogenaudio as a bunch of kooks and here they are revered, nuff said !!! What other forums? The almost dead Stereophile forum? The just about dead Absolute Sound forum? The only pattern I see here is that the forums which have a decidedly

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread Mnyb
No no silver is best for USB1.0 copper is better for USB2.0 .2.0 is faster and must be tamed with the more mellow copper ;) and is there synthetic material in those ? Asphalt saturated hemp is the best. But I'm actually astonished that there is no paper/oil/lead/asphalt cables in hifi ? It's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread ralphpnj
Mnyb wrote: No no silver is best for USB1.0 copper is better for USB2.0 .2.0 is faster and must be tamed with the more mellow copper ;) and is there synthetic material in those ? Asphalt saturated hemp is the best. But I'm actually astonished that there is no paper/oil/lead/asphalt

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread garym
SBGK wrote: funny how other forums look at hydrogenaudio as a bunch of kooks and here they are revered, nuff said !!! You're confirming that at the other forums, the inmates are in charge of the asylum. garym's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread Bill Burns
On 10/5/2012 3:40 PM, ralphpnj wrote: Mnyb wrote: No no silver is best for USB1.0 copper is better for USB2.0 .2.0 is faster and must be tamed with the more mellow copper ;) and is there synthetic material in those ? Asphalt saturated hemp is the best. But I'm actually astonished that there

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch digital out is bit perfect or other players have better bits ????

2012-10-05 Thread Wombat
SBGK wrote: funny how other forums look at hydrogenaudio as a bunch of kooks and here they are revered, nuff said !!! Even more funny is how in other forums some are very good in quoting studies to proof things (often totaly out of context and wrongly interpreted) and linking to pdfs of AES

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Disable WLAN on Squeezebox Touch

2012-10-05 Thread garym
nyaskivor wrote: If someone built an (official/unofficial) update of the software. Updated with the function WLAN on/off. That would be so nice. . You can do this now with TT3.0. I have no idea why one would want to, but it is easy enough to do.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Asynch USB vs. non-USB

2012-10-05 Thread dsdreamer
dsdreamer wrote: I have the Rega DAC too, BTW. Anything that has SPDIF as its output is going to suffer from the main design flaw of SPDIF: namely the need to recover the clock from the data. If you could go USB to I2S such that the clock is transmitted explicitly and separately from the