GeeZa;186020 Wrote: > The outboard DAC argument via SPDIF is *so* old now it'll never die. > Bottom line I think is that a modern CD transport will get the data off > the CD effectively error-free, and that stream fed into a good modern > DAC over SPDIF (perhaps using a FIFO buffer and/or re-clocking) should > be pretty close to a perfect signal. Not as simple as a one-box > solution over I2S, but plenty good enough. > > However, a strong WiFi feed doesn't have the inherent weaknesses of > SPDIF and is therefore technically the "easier" solution to achieve > better results. Music may be a creative endeavour and therefore highly > subjective, but audio is basically an engineering exercise. My guess > would be that under a level-matched blind listening test there would be > very little to choose between the two approaches but if any of the > options would prove to provide a cleaner signal it would be over WiFi > straight to the Transporter. It's just data. I would say those Hifi > reviews that prefer the sound of a CD transport are subtley biased > against the network solution. The only way to put that bias to the test > is to do it blind, horror-of-horrors, otherwise those findings are > interesting to read but ultimately valueless.
GeeZa - I agree re: bias against network players in Hi-Fi mags. I'm having some trouble following the rest of your post, since transporting PCM over SPDIF is a totally different kettle of fish to moving TCP/IP packets over Wi-Fi in almost every conceivable way. I'm not clear what you are trying to compare. Are you saying there are two forms of "two-box solution": 1) computer+ sb 2) transport+DAC and that linking a computer to an SB via Wi-FI (or cabled ethernet!) is a better quality (more robust/accurate) audio solution? - in which case I agree in the general case but we really aren't comparing apples to apples here... -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
