stop-spinning;635170 Wrote: > Yes and those web postings are on 'this' forum with evidence that using > something like a Teddy PSU - costing a good deal more than a netbook > alone - can significantly improve the sound quality. So perhaps there > must be something in it. I know in audiophile circles that upgrading > the mains (or isolating altogether if possible) is one of the first > places to address for noticeable improvements in sound. >
Yes, there are a lot of paranoid (and some very incorrect!) postings on this very forum! I'm not saying that power supplies, etc. can't affect sound quality in a system (for lots of reasons), but if you search these forums enough you'll also find evidence that there is little to be gained by replacing the power supply of the TOUCH (as compared with some of the older SB players). There's way too many "night and day differences" reported from such modifications for my taste. Your mileage my vary... Also, I've used foobar2000 as a player for many years and very much like its flexibility. I agree with a poster above, that when you move to something like foobar2000, a netbook/DAC, etc., then there is little or no reason to have SqueezeBoxServer or SqueezePlay in the mix. Not needed. Just use Foobar2000 as your music library manager and player feeding a DAC from the computer (netbook, etc.). I used to do just this with a laptop running foobar and feeding a Benchmark DAC I. And I could control foobar2000 remotely from an app on my iPhone. But the SB experience is much better for me. The transporter works nicely, I can control it from my laptop, my wife's laptop, my iphone, ipad, etc. I can sync various players in other rooms together OR PLAY DIFFERENT THINGS at each player. And this is all connected to a single library/server. AND IN MY OPINION, THE MOST IMPORTANT BENEFIT: I can put the computer/server with music data in the back closet far away from any listening room. With the foobar>Netbook>DAC>stereo system, you need the netbook somewhere near the stereo which I assume is in your listening space. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88181 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
