BTW - just for the hell of it last night, I thought I'd stream the Kelly's Industry http://www.kellyindustries.com/downloads/dts-44k_diatonis_soal.zip DTS file to my SB2 as a flac file.
There were a few surprising results. 1) The WAV only compressed from 59mb to 56mb when converted to flac. I was expecting a much better compression ratio, based on a post by Sean earlier saying that DTS files were padded with 0's. I was expected to shrink the file by maybe 40-50%. BTW- the flac compression was set to -8 (highest compression) 2) The flac file would not stream to the SB2 without breakup. I'm not sure what the problem is, but even though the reception of my 802.11g network is 80-90% (and the SB2 was the only Wireless device on it), the SB2 did not seem to be able to fill it's buffer quickly enough to keep the music from breaking up. When I looked at the buffer fullness indicator, it seemed that when the SB2 was paused , the buffer would fill to 94%, then when I unpaused, the indicator dropped in steps of 10% until the audio started to break up. Someone mentioned in another thread that the SB2 had 64mb RAM on board, with 32mb used for buffering. If that's correct,I would have expected to get at least 1/2 way into the file before breakup. The reality was that I only managed 10-15 seconds at a time. -- oreillymj _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
