Hello, I am new to this forum and have a question for you seasoned squeezebox users out there:)
I am putting togther a 2 ch system in my home consisting of ascend sierra speakers, proceed amp3, proceed pre-amp, an oppo 980 DVD player & currently my xbox 360 for streaming. The music I listen to varies from mediocre quality MP3's to WMA lossless files. I really enjoy very accurate clean sounding gear and last night I begain A/Bing my oppo with a CD versus the Xbox playing the same track in WMA lossless form. What I noticed was that the xbox sounded very dull in comparison, not as much clarity or punch, and less bass. I beleive the 360 re-samples all muisc from 44.1 to 48khz. I imagine this and the quality of the 360's DAC's are the culprit. I am looking for thoughts on how much of an improvement replacing the 360 with a SB3 will add? I do require using the analog outs of the SB3 because its going directly into the proceed 2 ch pre-amp(no seperate DAC). Thanks in advance! Take care, Brandon -- bigbwb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bigbwb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17407 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47401 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
