dhinesh;618995 Wrote: > After researching a bit and reading up on the forum, I would like to set > up my squeezebox touch as follows and any input, criticism, guidance, > etc to help all of us get on the right path would help. I will post > back my experience so others can learn as well: > > Current Setup: > 1) Do not have an option to run wired ethernet as NAS is in another > room and wiring is not convenient. Besides I would like to keep the fan > noise out of my listening room > 2) Running Squeezecenter on a Readynas NV+ and will upgrade to Netgear > Pro very soon. Have a dedicated router that is only used for streaming > using WLAN to the touch, duet and SB3 in 3 different rooms. Router is a > Cisco Linksys 610N. Have around 2 TB of music and using a laptop with a > hiface and a itunes / hard disk / Mac, just does not cut it for me due > to my LARGE music library > 3) Touch analog outputs are not used and the SPDIF out put goes into > the Audio Research Dac 8. Sound is OK but not on par with my Ayre C5XE > MP CD Player even using good cables: stereovox xv ultra coax digital > cable, kimber palladian power cord and kimber 1120 balanced > interconnects on the Audio Research dac 8 > 4) All the equipment including the Touch is plugged into a Shunyata > Hydra 8 > > Planned Setup: > 1) Perform Soundcheck mods as posted on his tutorial > 2) Plug the NAS and the router into a conditioner / filter. Thinking of > Shunyata Hydra 2. If I use a UPS, the hydra will go into the APC 1000 on > line UPS. Use an audiophile cable from the outlet to the Hydra 2. Not > decided on the UPS as yet as I usually put the NAS off when not using > it. > 3) Change the power cable on the NAS to a decent audiophile cable like > the KIMBER PK 10 gold > 4) Change the power supply on the router and the touch to a linear > power supply > 5) Buy a bridge like WET 610N or use another router as a bridge (use > ddwrt) and change the power supply to linear as well. Connect the touch > to the Ethernet port of the bridge > 6) Stream using wlan from the router connected to the NAS to the router > connected to the touch > Audiophiles may like the setup as it theoretically should isolate all > the noise and result in a good / hopefully bit perfect output on the > SPDIF output of the touch. The NAS will be in another room and the fan > noise will not interrupt with the sound but we need the technically > adept members of the forum to give us their input to see if the above > will result in a better / bit perfect signal on the touch SPDIF output. > Computer Audiophile in its review of the touch claims that the SPDIF > output of the touch is bit perfect but I have my doubts as my ears are > not HAPPY! > Do not want to be in a situation where I go and buy the power supplies, > etc only to find out that its of no use as my ears will still not be > happy. > > Request everyone that is interested in getting a good sound using WLAN > to study the above and give input. Or is there no way to get good sound > using WLAN? This is a mystery to me! > Thanks Well, here's my opinion.
If you're using WLAN any server or (wireless) router mods are useless. First, if different OSs produce a different sound then one or all are not working properly - raise a support ticket or bug report. If over the network you open a spreadsheet from a Windows file server and it's different to the same spreadsheet opened from a Linux file server, that's a bug. Second, with WLAN there is no way an electrical filter on the computer end's power supply can impinge on the audio signal. Any questions about WLAN are negated if you buy a DAC that rejects jitter and noise (and some just do...deal with it!) If you're confident about the DAC rejecting jitter but not so confident about noise then use an optical cable. Or use a one box player which is designed properly (around here some people like the Transporter). This is the attraction of WLAN if you're paranoid in nature, it seems to me. There are no loose ends to worry about once you choose one of the several DACs or players available for purchase which are engineered properly. (Of course a lot of your boutique "audiophile" items are not...) What about wired LAN? This is what I don't get. It seems to me overkill to worry about WLAN. But paradoxically, wired LAN introduces an electrical connection between the computer server and the player and it is precisely that which requires apparently all sorts of gizmos and tweaks to deal with. If you're paranoid in nature using wired LAN is opening a whole can of paranoia worms! There's a whole lot of cleverness being talked about based on this flawed bit of logic. Put another way the imagined problems of wired LANs are numerous and complicated and expensive to deal with. The imagined problems of WLAN have a simple solution (see above). I'm outside of my comfort zone here. Refuting silliness is not my bag. If I did that all the time I would be refuting 24 hours a day! IMHO, if the cap fits wear it, etc. Darren -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. SB3, SB Touch SqueezeControl for Android ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86419 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
