dhallag wrote: > Yes I do know about the receiver. And I see that both the receiver and > touch are converting it down to match the lowest common denominator of > the receiver. Another reason to get it replaced. And I would imagine > that the additional processing it's doing to do that conversion down > taxes the system and is leading to the lower transfer rates. Only way > to tell for sure is the get the touch and compare. > > I used to have LMS on a real computer; but it was wireless as well as I > really can't place a wired computer to the router. I still have it > setup with the same version of LMS on it so I can try that to see if it > works better. > > My hires files are FLAC; are you saying that I should really rip and > purchase in WAV?
No no stick with flac , flac is way much better in preserving metadata and uses half the bandwith when streaming :) and technically it's not the reciever or touch that does the converting it's the server . The idea was to test if the NAS gets CPU bound by the conversion . And also some people stream flac as wav ! ( yes the server can be set up to do that ) Don't do that it uses more bandwith and CPU cycles for nothing . There are "advice" floating around that you should do that but it's nonsense . OT . If there is a 24/192 or 24/96 version of a recording I get the 24/96 one . That's simplifies things too . My two main players are Touches transcoding rarely takes place and I you save money as they usually charge more for 24/192 usually for nothing . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101270 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
