Mnyb wrote: > You may have compared apples to oranges is the format from the RP app > and an RP station tuned in by lms/squeezebox the same ? and it migth be > some server transcoding involved . > > To compare iPhone + onkyo dock vs squeezbox reciever you migth want to > try a local lossles file and make sure that that the volume levels are > the same. > > But it may actually be so that you discovered that the squeezebox has a > better RP implementation than typical phone apps , maybe the phone is > using a lower bitrate . That i would understand as you are supposed to > be on the bus or commuter train listening ,rather than plug it in to > your posh hifi :) > > But you are right about that the receiver is an underrated digital > transport and so are many other digital transports . The persons who > usually "rate" these things are audiophiles and you can probably gues > where i'm going with this ;) > > I have used SB3 and is using Touch as a digital transport ,sounds fine > to me in my system (in fact identical to any other reasonably good > transport i ever tried ) .
The improvement is obvious in Spotify also! Obviously I can only use Triode's Spotify on the Duet but nevertheless... Spotify on the iPhone/Dock is running at highest quality to keep things even. And it's not that have I to find tune the volume control, the quality change is not that subtle - It's quite a revelation for me to find such an influence from the digital source. So be warned, if choosing a DAC for your system that the transport has just as much influence over the SQ in my experience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stop-spinning's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43254 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97753 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
