RGibran;379245 Wrote: > From JA's Stereophile review of the Squeezebox... > > Comparing the original CD on the Ayre C-5xe disc player, its digital > output driving the Levinson DAC via a 1m DH Labs AES/EBU link, with > SlimServer feeding an Apple Lossless–encoded file to the Squeezebox > with its digital output feeding the Levinson via the AudioQuest > OptiLink-5, I was hard-pressed to hear much of a difference.
Thanks RG for answering my original question since I had (very conveniently) forgotten about this part of JA's SqueezeBox review. Now here's the catch: JA was listening to the playback of an Apple lossless file which I pretty sure is decoded to a wav at the server and then streamed to the SB3 rather than say a flac file which would be streamed as a flac file to the SB3 and decoded to a wav file by the SB3. Would it make any difference in the final sound quality? I would think not but who knows. Also note that he still seems to feel that somehow the SB3/Levinson DAC combo is somehow unworthy of playback for "serious" listening even though is his ears seem to be telling him otherwise. As I stated earlier, if the $300 SB3 could do the same, or better, job than a $6K CD transport then the high end audio house of cards might just come tumbling down. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57441
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