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General - (fb2k) / Re: FB2K playing on LAN port - is it possible???
Last post by eEzZ -
If your cable is correctly constructed so that the twisted pairs are what they should be (see for example here) the cable would definitely not be a problem. Also your router seems to have gigabit ethernet ports and I don't see any complaints about its switch chipset not being able to do simple switching fast enough.

If you have two computers you can easily measure the transmission speed of the cable and the router's switch. Run iperf3 server on one machine and plug another computer to the router with this cable and run iperf3 client there. The client can measure transmission speed both ways. With gigabit ethernet you should get 900+ Mbps transfer speeds. That is definitely enough to play <10 Mbps audio streams without stuttering.
For sure everything is good with cable, I'm making ethernet cables since 1991 and have made thousand of 'em, and of course it was checked with network tester. Moreover new short shielded factory patch cord gave almost the same result (a bit better - ROON began to playback, if this can be named this way). As well as everything is good with router, but it looks like it's some way incompatible with DAC, or should be configured for streeming, but every audiophil knows that for Hi-Fi streeming should be used special switches and routers, for example something like Silent Angel Bonn N8, also if You read FAQ from HiFiMAN, You will know what attention they pay to the network cables quality.
The foo_out_upnp screenshot troubles me. If even querying the supported formats fails, it sounds like the device has very loose definition of standard compliance.
Don't worry - this device properties page was opened when device was offline already, so I think everything was good there.

Anyways thank You so much for Your help and support, and be sure now I'll found a way to make it working, and will post a final result here, at least now I know which direction to dig in  ;)
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Movie/Multichannel audio / Re: Sony A95L, K, J: Using Internal Speakers as Passively Driven Center Channel?
Last post by nmxny24 -

Don't own the A95L yet; trying to determine if the 65" model is too big or not for my field of view at ~ 11 ft.

Hoping this will help when I finish reading it.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
We sit about 10 feet from a 65" LG OLED. I would like to get a 77" display.
You must have a fairly large room if you prefer the 77". I was in Best Buy last night and at 10 ft the 55" looks too small. And the 65" looks too big; needs to be another foot or so away.

Worse! With $1200.00 in Sony card points due to expire on December 31st, the nasty problem I will face if I choose a 65 over a 55" Sony A95L TV is that because I want to watch it from 11 ft away and want my eyes to fall just below the center of the screen, the bottom of the TV will have to be only ~ 5" above the floor-making it impossible to place any respectably sounding center speaker in between. And mounting the center speaker above the TV is not an option, nor do I want to have the main speakers much closer than 10 ft from me.

The only other option is to go with the 55" and watch that from 11 ft way, a foot or so behind the speakers. And I can't place the 55” TV past the front of the main speakers to be closer to me as that would most likely cause bad early reflections.

If only Revel, Legacy, Wharfdale, Bowers & Wilkins, Monitor Audio or other turnkey HT speaker system brands made an excellent pair of vertical center speakers to be placed to the sides of the TV, and which would complement the directivity pattern of their main speakers.

Suggestions welcomed.
 
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General Audio / Re: Changing the endianness of a 16bps uncompressed WAV file
Last post by Klymins -
Importing (into Audacity) as 8-bit unsigned seems to work better and of course there's no endianess with 8-bit mono file so that eliminates the endianes issue, but I don't know what it's supposed sound like.

How does the playing time compare to what you expect?

Of course 8-bits also doubles the number of samples so it doubles the playing time.   

Of course if the sample rate is wrong or the number of channels is wrong that also messes-u the speed & playing time.

I couldn't understand you. The last file I've shared is correct.

In summary: I was wrong for assuming that the problem was caused by the endianness (it was caused by the bit depth).
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General Audio / Re: Changing the endiannes of a 16bps uncompressed WAV file
Last post by DVDdoug -
Importing (into Audacity) as 8-bit unsigned seems to work better and of course there's no endianess with 8-bit mono file so that eliminates the endianes issue, but I don't know what it's supposed sound like.

How does the playing time compare to what you expect?

Of course 8-bits also doubles the number of samples so it doubles the playing time.   

Of course if the sample rate is wrong or the number of channels is wrong that also messes-u the speed & playing time.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: JScript Panel script discussion/help
Last post by sveakul -
as per @sveakul's suggestions,  please find the attached script that was updated with this feature, named version after 1.0.14 DT-L 14-Nov-24 for easy reference.
Thanks ilovefb2k for the script with the new "infinite" alignment options  :o !

I noticed two issues with the DejaVu skin:

1.  At lower levels, the bottom of the needles protrude slightly from the top and bottom of the main body;  see Image #1

2.  When "LED Level" is set to "Follow RMS" it works fine, needles and LED follow RMS together.  But when set to "Follow Peak", the LEDs have a way too slow decay rate, resulting in being maxed out most of the time instead of accurately following the audio peak changes.  GIF #2 is attached so you can get an idea of the LED Peak speed--it starts with pop music, which keeps the LEDs inaccurately pinned to Peak;  then I change to classical so you can get an idea of the LED change rates--the Rise level is fine, but Decay is too slow.

Thanks for your work!