itz;377810 Wrote: > At the risk of being declared the fool on the hill, I have some > questions/statements. > > To my ears in my rigg (with external dac): > > 1. Squeezecenter on Nas (Synology 107+128) sounds a lot better than on > puter with XP. > > 2. Flac's streamed as wav sounds better then native streaming. > > 3. Squeezecenter 7.3.1 sounds wierd compaired with 7.2.1. > > 4. SPDIF sound better then Toslink. > > Help me, please, I really don't believe in this kind of shit but to my > ears it makes a huge difference. > > Probably I'm imagining the whole thing or have a psykotic disease or > something but it's driving me mad as I can't find any way to explain it > to my self. > > And by the way, a happy new year to all of you out there. > > Cheers / Stefan
1, very dark, streaming is streaming except if we look at point 2. Are you 180% sure that the settings of SC on XP and NAS are 100% identical 2 This claim I know from another forum (http://www.audioasylum.com/) The explanation is that WAV being straight 16/44.1 PCM audio, requires less processing power than decoding any other format. A lot of sound cards are very sensitive to EMI/RFI/ PSU ripples. So if processing power increases, sound quality drops. Cant say I ever noticed this my self. 4 As far as I know, Toslink is SPDIF over optical. Bit unclear to me what you have compared but different implementations (coax/optical) might sound different. If this is about feeding SPDIF in two different ways to a external DAC, this might indicate that the two differs in the amount of input jitter they generate. Alternatively the ability of the DAC to reject input jitter is insufficient. -- Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vincent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11631 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57449
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