darrenyeats;619207 Wrote: > Well, here's my opinion. > > 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. > > Darren
EXACTLY! This is what I do not get. When the SB was first reviewed in Stereophile, JA liked the fact that the server was in a different room and used WLAN to keep noise out of the audio signal. So I set up WLAN as well with the Benchmark DAC 1. Sound was good but the CD player was far superior. Changing the DAC improved the sound quite a bit but the BITE is still missing. And then, various forums: computer audiophile, etc, etc started raving about a wired connection: ETHERNET. This was a paradox to me as ETHERNET will open a new can of worms! Now it seems that to keep the worms to a minimum you need to use 2 routers. One at the NAS and one at the TOUCH and ensure the cables are CAT 5 or CAT 6 and that they are short as long cables introduce JITTER. Check out this article: http://www.ehow.com/how_2238303_deal-jitter-voip.html So it seems that the best solution would be to set up a WLAN backbone and then use a wired connection between the 2 routers and the NAS and touch. Now if I do this, I introduce switching power supplies in the audio signal via the power supplies of the routers. Switching power supplies = JITTER. So the next logical thing is to change the power supplies on the routers to linear and then plug these into a conditioner to get a clean audio signal. however, I am reluctant to try these solutions before getting feedback as it is no use spending the money if you do not get the expected results. perhaps I will check out the transporter as the cash outlay will be about the same and hopefully will get better sound! -- dhinesh Squeezebox Touch, Duet and Classic, Ayre C 5 XE MP CD Player, Audio Research Ref 5 Preamp, Audio Research Dac 8, Mark Levinson No 436 Monoblocks, Shunyata Hydra, Cables: Shunyata Anaconda, Kimber Palladian, Stereovox Ultra digital cable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dhinesh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12813 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86419 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
