Mnyb wrote: > *Extrernal DAC is the way to go* Touch itself is a little round round > soft, lacks an iota of resolution and openess and could have more low > end impacts (imo) but this is a bit exagerated ,it is very good for the > money and actually very very close to the best stuff, but sometimes even > these small things gets to you . > > I've always used it with my meridianG68J processor as digital transport > and still do ( but nowadays with digital speakers ) . > > If you want to be practical use FLAC files instead of WAV ( lossles is > lossles and yes it is lossles) or alac or aiff if you under gunpoint to > use iTunes , if you read otherwise in for example T.A.S it is utter > b*ll*cks :) > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?93549-FUD-intellectual-honesty-digital-facts-and-the-TAS-articles&highlight=Absolute+sound+computer+audio > > Btw unless you have messed with the file types setting on your Touch you > are already listening to flac as it is the default to transcode WAV to > FLAC to conserve bandwidth . > > I use wired Ethernet ,not out of sound-quality, but it simply works > better ,the Squeezebox is by design not sensitive to network conditions > of any kind until it's so bad that it runs out off buffer , then it is > obvious. > Or if the network is so choppy that control gets sluggish . > However 24/96 streaming could tax it networks capability under less than > perfect conditions (as in my home with 14 competing networks around ) so > wired is fuzz free. > > Further it is not at all sensitive to what kind of server machine you > are using as it is independent of whatever goes for soundcard and sound > drivers on the server PC/NAS/Thing . > Do not believe anyone stating otherwise as they obviulsy don't > understand how things work , it all ends up in the player buffer > anyway. > > The best server tweak is to move it out of the listening room (it's a > network player right ) next best is to use something you are familiar > with and can maintain fuzz free ,unless you want another hobby and run a > small linux server which is fast and effective and some fun :) LMS > actually runs much faster on Linux and a small gui less server OS is > very fast nimble and could be used on quite slow hardware. . > The simplest of all is the run the server on your normal desktop/laptop > for starters untill you find out another solution. > > Do wire the server to the network , historically having the server as > wifi can be a bit fragile (especially if you do other stuff with the PC > )
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