Okay, got home and did some testing with the Touch and 24/96 with LMS in my basement PC doing server-side decompression of FLAC (labelled as "PCM FLAC" in my chart below), streaming uncompressed PCM/WAV over to the Touch.
Setup: Touch stock firmware --> RCA outs (standard shielded stereo cable) --> E-Mu 0404USB Results: 14412 As indicated in the chart, for WiFi, I get signal strength of ~70% here. The numbers are all pretty consistent. One interesting hint of "something" might be the slightly higher stereo crosstalk in the "PCM FLAC" tests (with both ethernet and WiFi) but this is generally around +0.5dB and usually within the inter-test variability; however, I ran the tests 3 times in each of these conditions and I think this slight difference could be real (though obviously unlikely to be audible!). Conclusion: There you have it; I don't think there's an audible issue whether you stream FLAC or PCM at least with test signals and without buffering issues. One thing I notice is that with WiFi, there's a bit more latency to the interface on the Touch... Just not as snappy switching tracks or showing the album cover image. Maybe this effect biases one's experience negatively? "Waltz For Debby" sounds great so far without buffering issues ~30 minutes now. Hopefully I get to my Transporter this weekend :-) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Summary.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=14412| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
