gages Wrote: > Before the stream is transmitted to the SB2 or at the SB2? > Any negatives from a sound standpoint (standards aside) of using apple > lossless? > Steve
I have ripped all my CDs to Apple Lossless and I believe the decoding is done on the Mac or PC using Quicktime to AIFF (or WAV). I have my server settings so both AIFF and WAV streams are transmitted as is, not encoded again to FLAC. I don't notice any significant slowdown on the Mac when playing music. I use Apple lossless simply because iTunes is great for managing libraries, I've tried EAC but it is so clunky in comparison, good as it is. Sound is great, to answer your question, my SB2 + Musical Fidelity DAC is nearly up with my Copland CD player and I put that down to the DAC, not the SB2 because I think it would easily hold it's own as a transport against many expensive CD transports. I would say that I think at some point, SlimServer would really benefit from being a native app, sometimes it really grinds. Obviously the more functionality that gets added to the server, the harder the task is, but equally the slower it's likely to get. Obviously you could get faster hardware, but the nice thing about the server as it is, is that it runs on fairly modest hardware. Paul -- CardinalFang _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
