(regarding DRC) slimkid;269494 Wrote: > I still can't believe it's not there to begin with. I mean, every piece > of software out there has it (winamp, foobar, iTunes ??). Inguz is > nice, but requires too much juice from server and provides more than > most people need.
This is as a result of SS/SC -not- processing the audio but merely sending it as data and allowing the player to do it. This is a GOOD thing. I don't want my OS playing around with the audio and "improving" it. Inguz has to decompress to WAV, make its modifications, and recompress, all in real-time. This takes considerable CPU grunt. I'm not sure what TacT uses but I bet it's not off-the-shelf DSP chips - more like RISC or even x86 CPUs. This stuff is easy in a software player that's doing the decoding, much harder in software that isn't decoding at all. Now the SB1 had an equalizer, so it is possible to do this in software by accessing some code in the hardware I'd imagine. Then again, many audiophiles would not want such uncleanliness in their signal path... Oh and regarding 802.11n, whenever I see this with respect to audio products, I always chuckle about it - it's the old "mine's bigger than yours" argument again (including 24/192, which is more like "my numbers are bigger than yours"). -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: "I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon." SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, production SBC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43466 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
