I've also messed with Yamaha's Compressed Music Enhancer and yes it does work on internet streams (or any MP3 or WMA lossy). The question is how well it works. I'd break it down to thirds in my experience.. 1/3 usage = does improve audio 1/3 usage = no difference 1/3 usage = sounds worse (sounds better not using it)
A much better avenue is to improve the quality of the stations you are listening too. I gave up on Live365 many years ago for just this reason. I now use ShoutCast (guessing 80% of the streams are the same between ShoutCast & Live365). With ShoutCast I use their bitrate filter in the SB ShoutCast App to filter out all of the lower bitrate streams, usually set mine to 192k. This way, any menu navigation within ShoutCast (searches, genres, categories, themes, etc..) ONLY result in stations streaming at 192k or higher. Streaming the right stations at higher bitrates and they can sound *very* good. ;) I don't own a standalone DAC but I'd be highly skeptical that even a good DAC can really make much of an improvement on compressed lossy music. -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
