highdudgeon;63382 Wrote: > I'm wondering how many people have done careful listening comparing the > Squeezebox with and without a high-end external DAC? IE, is there much > benefit to be gained? Little? None at all? > > Personally, I think it sounds quite good. I do have a re-clocking DAC > on order. Comments, thoughts. > > Also, comments and thoughts on an external power supply? Worth it? > And, surely, there must be a commercial unit available that would be > cheaper than one of the "audiophile" versions (ie, Boulder, etc.).
for me, the difference is quite clear, but of course much more so when you get a decent signal. some HD radio streams I get from the net play very nicely thanks to the VDA2 DAC I got from CIA. in other cases, the difference between the SB3 alone and the SB3 through a DAC are going to be pretty minuscule. as for the external power supplies, I haven't made up my mind. harder to test... -- melomaniac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ melomaniac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12140 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
