cliveb wrote: > Let's try and be succinct: > > 1. You have some hi-res files. > 2. You have a Receiver, which is limited to 24/48. > 3. You have a low-powered server. > > This combination is far from ideal. > > You have three options to resolve this: > > 1. Get a faster server. > > 2. Replace the Receiver with another Touch. May be difficult and/or > expensive to find one now they are discontinued. (Maybe a Wandboard > running CSOS would be another option, although synchronization of a > Wandboard with your existing Touch may not be good enough for your > needs). > > 3. One-off downsample your hi-res files to 24/48 using a good converter > such as SOX. (You might argue that then you'd lose the benefit of them > being hi-res. My response to this is why not try it and see? In all > likelihood you won't hear any degradation at all).
You got it! So here we go: 1. Get a faster server. I have a PC that now has LMS installed on it. This PC is attached to my TV so it's wireless but I'm getting good wireless speeds. With this solution no dropouts. So got this one covered. 2. Replace the Receiver. Yea there's sonic reasons to do this as well so I'm trying. People are selling this for almost twice retail so I guess we'll just have to see how that works out. 3. Let me try and replace the squeezebox receiver first... if I do this, I will have no transcoding at all which is ideal. Also, I'm wondering if the transcoding is the taxing part of the CPU and thus maybe with no transcoding, the QNAP could handle with two zones synced. My other thoughts are also that I should probably get a DAC. In my living room, my amp/receiver is the Marantz SR6004 which has a pretty good DAC inside it: TI Aureus 32 bit which gladly accepts 192/24. If any of you know differently, let me know... But for my bedroom with the vintage tube Marantz 2270, a DAC could probably go a long way as it appears as the DAC on the Touch could be better. This of course leads me into a whole world of DAC's and there are a million of them.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dhallag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101270 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
