Recent content by Phileas

I do (I assume you mean just this universe and not any parallel ones).

Does anyone know of a music server (software) that is compatible and gapless?

I think perhaps you misunderstood me. I was suggesting there's no need to fear that market pressures would have a negative impact on future iPhone audio quality as there's no significant cost saving to be had in that direction.

If you're referring to the iPhone, the audio output is hardly likely to get worse - there's no cost saving available.

Reading quickly through this thread I didn't see anyone mention this so just in case, the audio output (not optical) from the Chromecast appears to be dynamic range limited by default and requires a settings change to get full dynamic range.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_loudspeaker

This isn't a FR sweep. It's listening to the sounds the speaker makes as the frequency input changes.

You can't isolate the floor from the pressure waves created by the motion of the speaker cones.

It's nothing to do with my set up, it happens with the Spotify iPad app also. It's just that a lot of albums where tracks run into each other are not gapless on Spotify yet. As I understand it, tracks need to be re-encoded to play gaplessly and that job is incomplete.

I use Spotify via a Squeezeserver 3rd party Spotify plugin controlled using iPeng on my iPad. I haven't noticed any SQ issues but I find the search function within iPeng far superior to that within the official Spotify iPad app. I listen almost exclusively to classical and more often than not...

+1 The forum is certainly almost useless for anyone wanting sensible advice - the answers to most purchase advice questions are so varied and unreliable. :roll:

I agree, it's all these silly people who keep posting that keep these threads alive!

You may be interested to know there's a company called AVI who pride themselves on the headphone-like qualities of their active speakers.

I apologise to PJ for helping to spoil his thread.

I've no idea what reason speaker makers give for supplying port bungs but I note that they often also tell buyers to allow many hours for burn in which is also nonsense. A simple calculation will tell you that most speaker dimensions are a tiny fraction of typical port frequency wavelengths.