pski;554816 Wrote: > Thanks. All the music is already apple lossless (which I understand IS > compressed.) I tried EAC before setting-out but it took FOREVER. I've > been using dbpoweramp for conversions. > > As a summary: it sounds like USB might be better than spdif because > it's synchronous. The DAC has all three inputs. This leads to questions > about OS USB drivers. The host is Vista and the user is wondering if a > sound card/drivers might provide different results from the "stock" > output of the PS Audio driver. (Simple: control panel/sound/usb > codec?) > > Previous experience with PS Audio has been good. > > Paul
Both EAC and dBPoweramp can take forever if not setup correctly. Both setup correctly can be quite fast and accurate. That said dppoweramp is much more user friendly to setup and default behavior is better. Apple lossless is just as fine as flac. It's just not as popular and not native to the squeezebox, so it will have to transcode to wav or flac. "USB" is no "BETTER" than PCI, LAN, WIFI etc. You really should not be comparing USB to SPDIF it's just two completely different things. There may be some exceptions as clivb mentioned where it buffers on the PC. But I believe that is total cheap crap you would not even look at. You don't connect the SQUEEZE box to the computer with SPDIF do you? No. One thing that is being mixed up a little a DAC versus Transport. I tend to think of SqueezeBoxes or USB SoundCards or PC's as Transports. I personally would never use any of those as a DAC. But if you are strictly talking DAC, then yeah a good USB one solves a lot of jitter issues becuase it's buffered up into that "BOX" and they can control clocking from the buffer to the DAC. But if your talking say a USB SoundCard as a digital transport, you need to convert to SPDIF anyway and USB doesn't really solve anything. You can think of a SqueezeBox or Transporter as exactly the same thing (as the USB SoundCard if you use it as a DAC or Transport. The Wifi/Lan is buffered and so all clocking is controlled within one box. One box (one master clock) is the best way to address jitter. But if you use the SqueezeBox/Transporter as a Transport then problems with jitter over SPDIF are back again. -- mswlogo XP > Cat5 > Transporter/DuetController > SPDIF > Meridian G68 > DSP6000, DSP5500HC, DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > DuetReceiver > SPDIF > Meridian G91 > DSP5000 'My Transporter Setup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=350741&postcount=45) 'Hitch Hikers Guide to Meridian' (http://www.meridianunplugged.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79677 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
