Given recent discussions in Absolute Sound regarding audio signals generated from a Hard Drive, I am wondering if the Squeezebox is producing the best sound possible when installed as recommended.
Effectively, I have my music files on my hard drive which are managed by Slim Server software. This software communicates with and sends the files over the home wireless network to the Squeezebox that forwards it to a DAC for analogue conversation. Is this the best I can do? It seems that there is some concern to get the best sound quality possible, one needs to manage/configure/bypass Windows kernel mixer, If the music server can only be used with standard system drivers (XP k-mixer), then the sound quality will be limited to mid-fi [at best. (Absolute Sound) A Stereophile article says: If the PC (specifically the XP K-mixer DLL) is not forced to do sample-rate conversion, it can maintain bit-transparent operations. This implies that if it does sample rate-conversion you dont get bit-transparent operations. Am I taking this information out of context to my application of PC server based music. Has anyone any views or experience with these issues as they relate to Squeezebox? Many thanks, Hans -- hshrader ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hshrader's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15034 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42867
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