the squeezebox itself does not do sample rate conversion, but it pads everything to 24 bit bitdepth if you have the volume controll at 100%
however if you run squeezeboxserver on a suitable computer, you can do this but it is not trivial. Sbs uses an aplication called Sox for downsampling, this can be utilized for upsampling to . it involves writing a custo-convert.conf file for sbs . ( search the forun ) but it is rather piontless for just feeding a DAC as you can not magically bring forth more information from the "only" 16/44.1 CD rips this way . And most dacs do upsampling or similar internally anyway so any input would be upsampled the roughly the same thing inside the dac anyway before the conversion, most decent dacs do the necessary conversions to best utilize the dac chip by themself so just feed them the source as is. however, some people claims ( naturally as all kind of wierd " truths " are claimed by audiophiles ) that upsampling before sending the data to the dac sounds " better " . My personal belief is that they probably abuse for example Sox or similar software with some filter setting that is not entirerly transparent to the ear and different is better ;) Btw i do like squeezeboxes as a digital transport , they are good eneough for almost any aplication. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89273 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
