Sunday HA Session

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

A rare thing occurred! I got a few hours off work to play with some of
my HA toys! So thought I would post a VERY brief report!

AUDIOTRON
Actually had time to connect mine up on Sunday and I have to say from a
brief play it seems EXCELLENT. I was very curious as to the sound
quality of MP3's and the Audiotron.
I connected it up to the following:
TosLink (Optical) to a Cambridge DAC.
Arcam Alpha 5 Amp.
RTL TDL5 floor standing speakers. (Big bold if not a little ugly!)
Played a cross selection of music types from MP3's at 128kbit and have
to say that the sound quality was not at all bad. A little lacking in
clarity and base definition was a little muffled but hey 30,000 songs
and I've got TWO! When I've got some time I'll rip some CD's as Wavs
and
compare the difference.
But up there in the looovely list!
TECHY QUESTION: I got it working fine BUT I cant get the set-up program
to find my AT? I can access my PC shared files and host PC no problem
both with a static or dynamic IP. I can ping the AT from a networked
PC.
But the AT set-up utility refuses to see it. Did not have any time to
investigate.Though I would mention it in case it was something
silly.Cant access the web interface either presumably for the same
reason?

WIFI
Again a Tony bulk buy master piece! work a treat.!

Clipsal C-Bus
Bloody Hell! (Ooops sorry should not swear in public!) This is the
ultimate. Electricians came over the weekend and wired up my first 8
zones in the lounge and dining room. Works a treat! Currently
controlled
by a single C-Bus switch which is in the WRONG room but hey just
switching zones on and off by the din rail module buttons was enough
for
me! (Pretty flashing lights have always floated by boat!)
Just as a side note it is worth knowing (For those considering C-Bus)
that each zone can only take a 1amp load (Aprox 230-250v) so you can't
ram to many lights on a zone. Had not seen this point in any sales
documentation (Although I could have missed.) so had to re-wire a zone
of 14 wall washing halogens! (Oooops) Luckily every load point is wired
back individually to a RB4 junction box so it was not a problem. Could
have a been a bugger though!


Many Thanks 
Rob 
Rob Mouser 
rmouser@xxxxxxx 
rob@xxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:roaming@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 August 2002 15:03
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My first weekend with the European AT


Rob,

Glad you like the AT.

> been drilled to receive them.  In the UK I'd never heard of 
> HPNA until I
> joined this list so I presume its only an American thing.  My

No it's not.  They took out HPNA coz it's too much hassle and expense
to
get
approval to connect things to the phone systems in Europe - that's what
they
told me anyway :-)

> 5 songs a second I guess.  I've only got about 4.3GB of music but
was
> surprised to see the song count go just over 2000.  The 
> manual says that the
> AT is designed to take about 3000, hopefully I'll be able to 
> squeeze in more.

Rob - it's _30_ thousand, not _3_ thousand!!!

> the links at the bottom for adding to the Queue.  I'd like it
> to be possible
> to configure these play buttons to "Add to queue" rather
than 
> "Play Now".

Join the support list and suggest this.  If enough ppl (ie more
than
one)
want it then they are usually happy to add things in....

> should be a bit more reliable.  I guess this allows me to 
> explore some of
> the problems the HPNA users have been having, but with a 

No, coz the European ones don't have hpna!!!

> * As a low tech solution to the bright power/remote LED I've 
> drawn over the
> led with a black pen.  This seems to have lowered the 
> intensity quite well,
> has anyone else any better solutions.  I don't want to open 
> it up and add
> say a resistor to the LED until my 1 year warenty has passed.

Ummm...there's an option on one of the menus (from the front panel, not
AFAIK in the web interface) to change the LED intensity.
But if you want to go for a more permanent solution then go ahead :-)

> managed?  I already have 2000 songs but the manual says 3000,

A misprint.  Not read manual but trust me, it is about 30k songs.

> * Use a smaller, more subtle logo on the AT itself.  It 
> certainly stands out
> from the crowd... "Whats that Turtle Beach box over
there?"

A self prompting toy :-D



Tony


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