Phil Leigh;602580 Wrote: > > You can IGNORE the displayed bit rates - they are wrong. They are just > a guess. > > 24/96 (FLAC or WAV) streams at 24/96 via a TOUCH and at 24/48 via an > SB3. >
Thanks Phil, for your reply! Based on my proper experience with a touch and a pretty "audiophile" chain behind, including an external DAC, I confirm, that converting FLACs to WAV on the server does indeed sound better than streaming the FLACs as such to the Touch - as far as 16 bit / 44 khz FLAC files are concerned. Now, may I just add one question, can you please clarify, where you have that certainty from, that no down-sampling happens? Have you seen inside the squeezebox server software and analyzed it? Or have you somehow measured the stream? Because just 1/2-phrase statements of "developers" without any rationale do not actually sound very convincing to me... (Like e.g. Andy's here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80563&page=1 ). In particular, the "rationale" there is not convincing at all. To say that the bitrate indicated is only a "guess" is strange. It is pretty easy to guess, that the weight of a 24bit/96khz pcm stream is NOT the same as the one of a CD type of stream... I can't actually believe that squeezebox developers "guess" so extremely wrong! So, if you have any further clarification, that would be great! -- diego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ diego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40897 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84787 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
