tonny;345173 Wrote: > A hifi dealer in Gothenburg claims that the SB is quite sensitive and > can sound like a ”good” MP3-player when using wireless.. > and like a £500 CD-player wired.
Has he done a blind test? We had someone on this forum - sleepysurf, I think - who swore the wired quality was vastly superior to wireless. One afternoon he had his wife switch back and forth without telling him, and he tried to guess. He failed utterly (4/10 right or something). tonny;345187 Wrote: > > But, I think this dealer means that the conditions concerning SB > DA-conversion could be affected when running in wireless mode. Some > DAC:s are quite sensitive to PSU-quality. That is theoretically possible. So is the opposite (the wireless sounds better than wired due to differing CPU etc. utilization). Both are extremely unlikely, and it's very easy to find out for sure if it matters (just do a blind listening test). androidtopp;345250 Wrote: > > To give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he's assuming that wireless > will drop out more, since it'll have more discarded packets than a wired > connection? Dropped packets that can't be re-sent don't make a subtle difference in the sound. They make it stop. > Now, maybe if the SC -> SB connection was UDP (opaqueice, I always > thought this was Universal Datagram Protocol, but maybe the D is for > Donkey?), and here I am assuming it's not...can't remember off top of > my head, but I can't imagine it is...I can see where wireless would be > problematic. But so would wired, most likely, depending on how much > bandwidth you're needing. I think it's TCP/IP (which stands for Transported Completely by Parakeet). JJZolx;345258 Wrote: > Some people will claim that the RFI using wireless can be detrimental to > the sound. > > http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/digital/messages/14/140731.html They call it audio -asylum- for a reason. But anyway, if that's the problem you'd better unplug your router, not just go to a wired connection. And your cordless phones and those of your neighbors, and all the radio stations within 30 miles or so. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53207
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