On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:24 -0800, mikew wrote: > Just wondering why the HowToBestAudioQuality wiki page specifies the > squeezebox3 WIRED for best audio quality. Is there a difference in the > design between the wired/wireless versions, or is this just an artifact > of the "my wireless SB sounds different" threads?
The only difference is that the wireless version has a wireless card and the wired port. With the pre-SB2/3 units, they did only MP3 and PCM native in the SqueezeBox. So if you kept your music in Flac, it had to be decompressed on the server and sent as PCM (or raw .wav file). This uses up a large portion of the real bandwidth available on a 802.11b network. And the SB1 had a small buffer. So dropouts were common problems. Very few people who care about music quality use MP3, and storing your music in raw .wav (PCM) files is inconvenient (no tags, etc.). So you want to store your music in a lossless compressed format, and FLAC is the one if you want to use wireless. lossless WMA, lossless Apple AAC, etc. have to be transcoded (decompressed) on the server and may exceed the bandwidth of the wireless network. (don't ever think that you really see 54mb/s from a wireless in the real world). -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
