I find some of this a little bit funny -- its easy for people to let numbers go to their heads. For instance: I happen to use an Apple computer and my home network includes an AE base station, and, in the room with my SB3, a Airport Express. Lovely device, and even easy on the eyes.
For the heck of it, I have run a Toslink connection from the AE to my Lavry DAC, along with the RCA coax from my SB3 to the DAC. This gets kind of cool, actually, because I also have the Griffin remote. Anyway, there is absolutely no difference. Of course, one would expect that. The interesting part, however, is in running a splitter cable from the AE to my preamp and comparing that to the SB3 going into another input. Quite frankly, there is no substantial difference, and certainly not with most pop music. So, why a Squeezebox? Because it's so damn handy, that's why. It is a fact, though, that people get into twists over jitter rates, etc., when they have no substantive proof that they can actually hear this stuff, that they have done blind experiments (which I actually have), etc. Hats off to Atkinson for taking on the project. The SB is a good tool, I'm sure it will receive an honest evaluation, and I do hope more people will become interested in the product. (Incidentally, I find that, with the Lavry unit, there is some improvement in imaging and perhaps clarity -- which I can only really tell with some music -- but the differences are small to negligible. Is an outboard DAC worth the extra thousand...? Good question. The same money invested in CDs would probably be more fun.) -- highdudgeon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21628 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
