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- Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Ultimate Ears triple.fi
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2226
Ultimate Ears triple.fi
Absolutely marvelous. Hands down better than my Etymotic ER-4S, better than the ER-4P that my friend swears by that I have listened to (which, btw, are more satisfying than my ER-4S, at the least), and at least as good as the preproduction pair of Shure E500 I sampled at CES two years ago. Too aweso...
- Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:36 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Staff Rigs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 114184
- Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:58 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Staff Rigs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 114184
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:05 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:45 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Undervoltable Motherboards: ADD to the list!!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 410737
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:11 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Ed's (Effectively) Silent K8 Rig--Moving Beyond Sigma One
- Replies: 68
- Views: 87858
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:54 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:22 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:57 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Ed's (Effectively) Silent K8 Rig--Moving Beyond Sigma One
- Replies: 68
- Views: 87858
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:01 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
Re: Optical versus Analog
Basically, yes.dvenardos wrote:Am I correct in assuming that the choice of using the digital versus the analog out on the squeezebox (assuming you have both available) would depend on whether the DACs are better on your preamp/receiver or the squeezebox?
-Ed
- Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:50 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
Sorry to bring up an old review, but I must ask this. Wouldn't output by spdif to another DAC increase jitter? Wouldn't a USB DAC be better in terms of getting rid of jitter in the audio signal? Thanks. It entirely depends on the design of the DAC. Benchmark's DAC1 is a design that does not rely on...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:25 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:08 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: How much will a 300w power supply run?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 1394263
My new machine is as follows: Seasonic SS-300 (yes, 20-pin PSU), fanmodded and grille removed Antec SLK2600, front lower openings sealed up, one Nexus 120mm silent fan out back ASUStek P5B Deluxe Core 2 Duo E6600 Thermalright SI-128, fanless 4GB DDR2 one 7600GT 256, fanless one 6600 256, fanless one...
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:26 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
Could you be more specific about the formats that you're using? I'm sure we could do a quick test if we knew exactly which format you were having trouble with. At this point I haven't purchased the SB3 yet so I am limited to the emulator (SoftSqueeze). I want to use the SB3 for wav files (44100 Hz,...
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:14 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Ed's (Effectively) Silent K8 Rig--Moving Beyond Sigma One
- Replies: 68
- Views: 87858
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:25 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
One thing they could do with the 8 meg buffer that I hadn't thought about is have a pretty large protection against network conditions--since their system isn't real time (as in, the data is already recorded--all of the stuff I work on at the office is being captured and encoded in real time, which...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:12 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
If the decoding process were time sensitive, I'd agree with you, but it is not. Get my point now? At the risk of sounding nitpicky, all decoding processes are time sensitive, because AV data by definition is time-sensitive. And, depending on the decoder, starving/flooding has varied results dependi...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:10 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
Sorry--I'm realizing we're really speaking about two very different types of jitter; they probably shouldn't even have the same name. One will affect the actual produced sound; the other may lead to the sound cutting out entirely. Network jitter is strictly the variance in arrival times of packets ...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:43 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
The IP jitter issue would only come into play if the data were decoded/decompressed on the server to regular digital audio (PCM in this case) and then sent in realtime to the digital network player (in this case, the SqueezeBox) for either digital to analogue conversion and analogue output or digit...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:44 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
A few observations: What if you could eliminate digital extraction from the optical disk as a source of jitter? You'd have solved half of the CD player's challenge. This is precisely what can be done by "ripping" CDs into digital files with a PC. Just about any CD drive will do, and just about any ...
- Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:22 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 115471
Hey Mike, have you tried plugging the Squeezebox directly into your power amps, avoiding the pre-amp? I seen various reports of it on the net, e.g.: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17180 I think it involves controlling the volume digitally in the unit, which sounds like a bad idea fo...
- Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: The quietest: 2.5" drives
- Replies: 75
- Views: 101866
- Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:18 am
- Forum: User Reviews
- Topic: Antec SLK2650-BQE Review and NewCastle Undervolting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25938
- Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:50 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seasonic S12-500 & 600
- Replies: 99
- Views: 100077
- Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Ed's (Effectively) Silent K8 Rig--Moving Beyond Sigma One
- Replies: 68
- Views: 87858
And the 380W model? Anyway, is this the silent drive you are talking about? :D 380watt model should be same fan as well. Yep, that looks like SilentDrive to me; Molex makes them. -Ed Thanks.. Do you know of another model (which could be more easily to find) yet equally effective? I've noticed you d...
- Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:57 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Ed's (Effectively) Silent K8 Rig--Moving Beyond Sigma One
- Replies: 68
- Views: 87858
Do you mean the Seasonic's 330W PSU is quieter than superior models? Also, do you know any store (that ships anywhere europe) where can I buy those cheap "SilentDrives"? Thanks S12-330 and S12-430 have quieter fans than their higher powered models. Sorry, I do not know where you can buy SilentDrive...
- Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:12 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Ed's (Effectively) Silent K8 Rig--Moving Beyond Sigma One
- Replies: 68
- Views: 87858
particularly with the new S12-330. -Ed Do you mean the Seasonic's 330W PSU is quieter than superior models? Also, do you know any store (that ships anywhere europe) where can I buy those cheap "SilentDrives"? Thanks S12-330 and S12-430 have quieter fans than their higher powered models. Sorry, I do...
- Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:13 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 7800 Stock Cooler dead quiet
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24261
- Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 7800 Stock Cooler dead quiet
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24261
- Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:33 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 7800 Stock Cooler dead quiet
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24261
Ed, it might have been the bridge. Did you try pulling the connector and running SLI without it? Two different mobos, two different bridges. Actually, three different motherboards plus bridges. Two ABIT AN8-SLIs and one DFI LAN Party nF4 SLI-DR. The two ABITs fared equally poorly, with more boot is...