Firstly apologies if this has been done elsewhere, please point me in the correct direction if it has.
I'm running 3 SBs (1 SB3, and 2 Receivers), along with a PC/Winamp combo against the same FLAC library (QNAP TS-119/SqueezeCenter 7.3.3). I've been messing around with Winamp, in particular FFSoX, and ASIO, which has spawned a few questions about the possible effects of some SB functionality. Volume; I set my SB receivers to 100% volume based on the supplied documentation, is this better quality because I'm avoiding the DSP, or as I vaguely recall reading something about the data being padded out to 24 bits prior to playing? As I said I use the volume on my amps so this isn't an issue for me. ReplayGain; I use 'Album' gain with my players, as I stated earlier I've been messing around with FFSoX as an input plugin. One of it's claims is that it improves sound quality by applying ReplayGain to the input stream rather than at playback, thus avoiding the DSP at playback. Has anyone done any research into the effects of using Album/Audiophile ReplayGain on playback quality, and could the SoX claim be valid, or too trivial to notice...I do like and use the ReplyGain functionality. Crossfade; Again if I'm playing back a random collection, crossfade is a nice option, however for me not as important as ReplayGain. I'd imagine that crossfade must invoke some DSP processing or other. Again has anyone checked out it's effects on sound quality? I've just started using Winamp/ASIO as the route to my M-Audio soundcard on my PC, and noticed that crossfade is no longer functional (it requires direct sound for that), but the quality is improved, marginally...this is probably due to the direct link to my soundcard but it did make me wonder. Sorry for the rambling head dump, anyone with experience in these areas? -- WAD62 Cheers Will ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WAD62's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85691 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
