Would a system sound from the mac trigger this command?
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Would a system sound from the mac trigger this command?
An audio file frequently includes several information bits, and a CD audio file contains even more of them. Those information bits are designed to activate or deactivate things such as emphasis (pre- and de- ), mute, audio type (DTS PCM, etc.), signal presence, etc. They can also include tagging information such as file name, length etc. A break in the command or an error (which could have been introduced during a file ripping process) will in turn send out an error condition to whatever device is using that data. It is not source specific so I wouldn't point the finger at the MAC. You can take that same tune and play it through a PC running Windows instead in order to find out if it still does the same thing or not.
Stan,
Now you understand the context, do you concede that I am not a troll?
Thanks
If you got issues direct your complaint to Marco or any of the moderators.
Courtesy Stan courtesy.......
Been guilty myself of shooting off at the mouth one time, but I took responsibility for the words that come out of me and contacted the person direct and apologised .
Hindsight is a good thing.
I think that Lee is trying to bait me Gaz. I have been paying notice to some of the things he has written in the past. He thinks through his strategy in order to come up smelling of roses afterwards. This is not about courtesy. It is about pointing out that I can see through such things. Others are playing a similar trick as you very well know.
Hi Folks, not seen many pics of the Bushmaster on the site yet so here are a few in my system, and I think it sounds as well a looks great :D
Marty
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...I/95bc7459.jpg
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...I/06322b47.jpg
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...I/88d63310.jpg
Weird that it's intermittent. I've been experimenting with a multiple output driver, the standard system out driver, and with software (Bit Perfect, vanilla iTunes etc), lots of different tracks. Haven't managed to pick a pattern yet but if I work out a consistent combo that causes it I'll be sure to let you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
A minor glitch. Have mainly just been enjoying the way it sounds. :D <- me
Would be interesting to see if a delay in the firmware solves it - keep me posted if you update the chip.
Graham,
as Lee already supposed, this might be caused by system sounds routed to the Mac Mini’s optical out. Visit “System Preferences → Sound → Sound Effects → Play sound effects through”. Try to uncheck the box left to “Play user interface sound effects” and hear if this makes a difference. When playing sound effects via the optical out, Mac OS X disables the optical out as soon as the effect has been played. Probably this triggers the DAC to enter signal search mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamtoast
http://www.berghofer.com/photos/gear...references.gif
If your Mac OS X version supports this, you could also route the sound effects to another audio port or device, which currently is not used for music playback.
Another option would be to use BitPerfect, a small, unobtrusive high-quality audio player for Mac OS X. Unlike other audio players, it integrates itself seamlessly with iTunes and might improve the playback quality. As a welcome bonus, it offers a “hog mode” option, suppressing all other audio events except iTunes during playback. This prevents the optical port enabling/disabling cycle of Mac OS X.
BitPerfect is available from the Mac App Store for US$ 9.99, so you won’t risk much money should you want to try it out. It has to be mentioned that currenty BitPerfect does *not* support natively wireless streaming of audio data to a remote Airport Express station (“AirPlay” via iTunes).
Werner.
Better than the X-Ray? I'd have put the X-Ray on its own as above the Caiman in all honesty (it was a superb player in its time) and it easily responded to interconnect improvements (we liked a Siltech gold-infused one at the time, but the Mark Grant HD series should also be ideal).....Quote:
Originally Posted by bigmarty
ok Stan.Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
Don't know the background of what you mean and don't want to!
Saw the dac in the flesh this weekend, looks very good.
Have one on loan sitting burning in at this very moment, more comparisons this Tuesday. :)
Any thoughts at this time mate.
brian.
Only in about an hour Brian from Fiona's gig on Friday so not had a chance to sit and listen, sorry!
The Boys over tonight for Daddy's day (awww...) so think we are off out, but will sit tommorow daytime and have a proper listen.
I'm sure he's got a very expensive present for you mate :D
brian.
We'll see..
probably be a case of me forking out for Frankie & Benny's!
Gary,
I would be interested to hear you thoughts. I have put a few hours on mine including the head amp.
Tony.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bigmarty
Glancing at that photo earlier I assumed the Caiman was a separate photo as I didn't realize the size difference. I really like the smaller size of the BM - more compatible and portable looking.
Nice pre & power amp :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by bigmarty
Lap it up... Enjoy the music chap :D
Apologies for going off topic, bad habit :doh:
Uh? Never...Quote:
Originally Posted by webby
Although I changed the radiator recently (1988 Astra still going strong) and it did feel nicer to drive but then I hadn't driven it in a long time and had been driving something else for a while.
I also felt at ease because I wasn't worrying the car's incontinence and over heating.
Oh dear :(
I've had mine for ~9 days and I've been away from this forum doing some listening (and also some minor jobs on my vinyl setup) and just logged in to catch-up prior to submitting my listening impressions.
Having read some of the apparently vitriolic OTT flaming and accusations of trolling I think I'll keep my impressions to myself.
In fact, I'm not sure I'll be back here again.:goodbye:
FFS lighten up, it's only stereo. We are a community and as far as audio fora go, IMHO we are a fairly close knit one, so little spats will occur from time to time. But they rarely get out of hand, thanks mainly to the general ethos of the main body of members IMO. If such spats were a daily occurrence I would have some sympathy with your 'Farewell' - even the people involved do not seem to be as upset as you about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jabberwocky
Join in and contribute your findings, there are a lot of people who would find it of interest, me included :)
Dave.
In fairness have to say some of it was a bit unpleasant to read...
Tommorow there's a few of us hearing the BM at Gazjam Towers.
The BM's been running in since Friday night 24/7 so should be well warmed up.
Be an interesting comparison as we all hear things differently and there will be a few different sets of lug'oles present.
Be up against a couple of other Dacs, so should be interesting. :)
Looking forward to it Gaz.
Look forward to hearing your findings, Gaz. I presume, based on some of your previous posts, you and your buddies will probably compare it with an Audio Note Dac-zero, amongst others, which is one Dac I was considering before going for the BM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
My BM has was waiting for me in the office this morning when I arrived into work. (Thanks Stan!) Can't wait to get it home and plug it in.
Nathan
I've just received the 12V DC battery that Stan recommended. I'll listen to it tonight versus the AC adapter and will post my thoughts later.
This is something I have also ordered.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
I meant to post the other buying option I was made aware of. If you can't get it from the ebay site, as I was not able, due to living in Ireland (they have a geographic restriction imposed on the ebay listing); the seller told me that you can go to http://www.buyincoins.com/ and buy it from there.
Sorted!
Nathan
Don't forget to put it on charge. And read the instructions how to do it! It looks straight forward, but isn't. A safety feature I reckon.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
I'll taking along my DIY valve output dac, and I believe there will be a Rega dac too. I've given Bernie a shout to come along, if he does we could try the AN dac too.Quote:
Originally Posted by RochaCullen
Send me the bill for the drinks. Gaz might leave you guys thirsty all night :D.
2 thumbs up :thumbsup::thumbsup:. This is exactly what I've been waiting for someone to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by RochaCullen
Thanks and I will be watching for results:drool:
It certainly looks like,your on to a winner with this one stan!!
I look forward to hearing one,in the future :)
You DO know Stan all us Jocks drink 40yr old Single Malt scotch...? :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
Rega Dac and Gator Caiman (with EVERY mod) too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ali Tait
Not when they got to drive back in the middle of the week :ner:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
You should head down the road, Gary, and grab yourself a bottle of Auchentoshen three wood. Glasgee's finest. Smooth and full of flavour. Had more last night of that than I should have, today's been dragging.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
Nathan
What about a plain vanilla TC 7510? I'm very interested in how they compare to the Bushmaster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
:)
Moved on a fair bit from that, but never say never ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by snapper
Things keep getting better with the Bushmaster, now that it continues burning in (I'm leaving it on a constant uninterrupted 27/4 burn-in diet).Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
Hey, I've just discovered a brand new Bushmaster's talent. This is something I've never heard from ANY DAC, but this baby seems to offer it in troves (after the mandatory initial burn-in, that is). It's gonna be very hard for me to describe this new peculiar talent in words, so the impatient should stop reading right about now:
Let me start with a riddle. You know those pesky little sentences many of us keep getting in an email, as a lighthearted joke? Something like this:
H0W 0UR M1ND C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W Y0UR M1ND 15
R34D1NG 4U70M471C4LLY
For the purposes of my illustration, let's say that regular DACs are converting digital to analog by rendering sentences in the above fashion. Now, what I found about the Bushmaster is that, unlike any DAC I've ever heard, it actually renders the above material like this:
HOW OUR MIND CAN
DO AMAZING THINGS
IMPRESSIVE THINGS
IN THE BEGINNING
IT WAS HARD BUT
NOW YOUR MIND IS
READING AUTOMATICALLY
Looks like a minor difference? Not really. The difference is actually enormous. You see, even though the brain can be trained to read the original gobbledegook, it tires easily, because it's constantly straining to replace the numbers interspersed in the text with the appropriate letters. What the Bushmaster does is it spells out, in full (in clear text), the content it is converting from the bit-perfect digital signal.
This feat produces such clarity, such enjoyable listening experience, that it can indeed rightly be compared to a good analog reproduction. It is, to my mind, a major breakthrough, because what I've discovered is that now I can literally listen for hours on end, and continue enjoying music, while not getting tired or fatigued even one bit.
I don't know what exactly is going on inside this DAC, but I call it 'continuity'. When I compare it with other DACs I've listened to, I'm startled to hear the lack of this 'continuity' in other DACs, which causes tiredness and irritability to the listener. Basically, all other digital reproduction that I've listened to seems to expect the listener to 'fill in the blanks' (in a similar fashion to how we were expected to 'fill in the blanks' with the above letters-and-numbers sentences). It is this 'continuity' that seems to be a special talent of the Bushmaster, because it does not expect us, the listeners, to fill in any blanks. Because of that, it is now incredibly easy to follow any instrument, or any chosen cluster of instruments/voices, from the beginning to the very bitter end, without losing track for even a split second. Musical performance now feels completely coherent, as there are no hiccups or little burps on the journey. In short, the music flows joyously!
That, to me, is a major accomplishment. I'm pretty sure there must be other high end DACs that can compete with regards to this ability to offer uninterrupted 'continuity' and the joyous flow of music, only I haven't ever been able to hear such rare beasts. Did anyone ever hear DACs that can pull this stunt? Did what I wrote here even make any sense to anyone?
Ah yes, the instructions. "the inner circuit cut off automatically in case of uncorrectly use". :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
To paraphrase captain Kirk: "It's English Martin but not as we know it."
Alex your a nutter!! ;)
Well, I'm pretty confident now that this thing is more enjoyable than the Majiks dac
Can't get the pc to sound as good feeding it directly though which is most frustrating as really I could do without the majik if I could
I'm sure with loads of tinkering I might get it there ... But I can't be arsed I don't think!
I'm going to try one more thing though ... The pc has an optical out that last time I tried it fed horrible clicking and hissing noises into the dac whenever I moved around the room ...
Going to try it one more time though ... So ...
I need an optical jack - normal optical connector cable ... Sorry, I've forgotten the correct terms ...
Anyone got one I could borrow? And maybe buy if it works ... No point in buying one if I'm going to have the same issue from the pc again ...
Made perfect sense to me. I'm glad it all came good for you in the end MCR ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by magiccarpetride
Sorry, can't help you there, Hamish. I do have a nagging feeling, the more I listen to the Busmaster, that the real bottleneck in my system may be upstream. SBT just does not seem to be capable of outputting the best pristine digital signal (the ever so elusive so-called "bit perfect"), as I feel it continues to interject spurious digital noises (and I've tried everything under the sun to tame that noise, replaced the noisy switching PSU with a good linear one, killed all the unnecessary processes on SBT, etc.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamish
So you may end up stuck with your Majik as a transport. I honestly don't believe you can coach your PC into sounding nearly as good as Majik, unless you're an engineering genius... Sorry to pee on your parade:(
For those who missed Stan's link, I bought one of these 12V rechargeable batteries and charged it up fully before powering the Bushmaster from it.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDAwWDQwMA...Jrg~~60_12.JPG
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISA...E:L:OU:GB:1123
Listening to it tonight in place of the provided 12V Unifive SMPS, I am impressed. The whole sound has taken on more solidity, especially in the bass, and there is even less harshness with a sweet, extended treble. In fact, the treble quality with hi-res streams from the Logitech Touch is delicate, airy and resolved in a way that CD cannot manage. Brushed cymbal work is superb. The noise floor seems a little lower, bringing the music up from blackness in a very satisfying way.
Once again, as if it need be drummed into us, a linear PSU works wonders to lower the noise floor, enrichen the soundstage and reduce hash and lack of resolution compared with a switched mode PSU.
A second benefit is that the BM + battery becomes an excellent portable DAC/Headphone amp for use in the field or on travels. I dare say you could charge it from a car socket given the correct adapter. An absolute bargain.
FWIW, I use the Touch and I have no noise at all from the SBT that I can detect. I use a DACMagic but I also use an optical cable. I tried the coax with the Touch and found that optical just sounds better. I saw a few posts when it first came out and people recommended the coax as they thought it should sound better but after the Touch had been out a while I saw a lot of people confirming what I found in that the optical cable did sound better than coax :scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by magiccarpetride
Does it selfcharge while running the DAC off a battery or when it starts to run down do you have to charge it? Probably could find out if I went to the site and read but I figure you already know the answer so I'll just ask:eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Hi Alex,Quote:
Originally Posted by magiccarpetride
The Touch does output bit perfect via its SPDIF, the guys on the SBT forums have tested it using DTS files.
If it wasn't bit perfect the files wouldn't get through, but they do.
You charge it separately, otherwise the isolation benefits of using a battery would be lost anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by edmondwolfman
Hi Gaz,Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
Yes, you're right. I chose the wrong term. What I should've said is that the already bit perfect signal gets slightly polluted by some unwanted spurious noise. I've been experimenting with changing the config parameters on the Touch, and was able to affect the level of that pollution. However, the more I was getting close to minimizing this pollution, the more would I be getting breakages in the playback, even to the point that the Touch would just fall completely silent, and only a hard reboot would jolt it back to life! So you see, the files do not always get through.
You can't win (not on the cheap, at least).
Hi guys, for those wanting to turn their Bushmaster \ Caiman into a remotely controlled device I've ordered this from an American company http://inday.com/da4x/da4x.htm it will also expand your s\pdif and toslink inputs. Good eh?