P Floding Wrote: > Make sure you don't have bitrate limiting turned on in your slimserver > (a per-player setting under "Audio"). Bitrate Limiting is and was disabled. AFAIK it also applies only when transcoding to mp3, anyway. But regardless, it's disabled.
P Floding Wrote: > Try converting ALAC to WAV instead of FLAC (if the converter supports > it). The conversion would be to AIFF rather than WAV (I'm on a Mac), but I see your point. I'll give it a try. It's only about twice the bandwidth so it shouldn't kill the network... though, why would this make a difference? You say that FLAC->WAV sounds better than plain FLAC, but since both are lossless formats, what could cause the difference in sound? P Floding Wrote: > Try using the digital input with the SB (manually switch the TosLINK > between the sources). I can hook up the SB3 to a separate digital input simultaneously... any reason to use the same digital input, rather than a different one? Of course, using the SB3 digital outputs means I'm using the receiver DAC, not the SB3 DAC. Given that my receiver isn't exactly top-end, the SB3 DAC should be superior, so shouldn't it also provide better sound than using the digital outputs and the receiver DAC? P Floding Wrote: > Make sure you don't have any long interconnects from remote equipment > hooked up to your amp. Try the sound with less stuff hooked up. All items connected to the receiver are in the same cabinet, so the longest audio cable is 6 feet, which is the SB3's analog RCA cable. I only have 3 things hooked up to the receiver: the DVD player (digital optical), the SB3 (analog), and my HDTV cable box (digital optical). Both of the digital optical cables are 3 feet long. P Floding Wrote: > Try cleaning your contacts with a contact cleaner. I'll certainly give that a shot, although the receiver is fairly new so the gold-plated analog contacts should still be reasonably clean. But it's an easy thing to do. I suspect that using the digital outputs of the SB3 will "fix" the problem, though I can't really believe that my receiver's DAC would be better than the SB3's DAC... that just seems silly. And yet, the only other thing that I can see affecting the sound quality on the SB3 but NOT on the CD would be the Smart Gain, but since Sound Check in iTunes doesn't muddy the sound, it seems unlikely that the SB3 Smart Gain would be the culprit, either. Thanks for the advice, I'll give those a shot... if you have other insight, please let me know! Or, if anyone else out there has experienced this same issue with a similar setup, please post! -- cepheid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22635 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
