Ex SB3/Touch guy, went over to PC based audio with Jriver. Decided to revisit Squeezebox recently, bought a Transporter and was very impressed! So much so I'm using the Transporter (into my Dac) as my main digital music source. Still use my music server /Jriver as an AV source, but the Transporter for choons. Something nice about a single black box with remote for music..makes me kind of nostalgic. :)
So a question please? In my music library I have a fair amount of 24/179 and 24/192 music, as well as DSD music and SACD rips in ISO format. Obviously the Transporter can play 24/96 and downsample anything above...but I wonder now I'm setting off on this journey what my best move would be regarding the DSD and SACD rips? Audio quality is obviously important, so my initial thought would be to use Jriver to create a copy of my DSD/ISO music is 24/96 PCM format, using its file conversion tools. The originals would be stored on an external drive somewhere out the road. Seems ok? The other question I have please is that as I've been away from squeezeboxes a while, I'm not exactly sure my file format settings are optimised for quality? I'm one of those guys who can hear the benefit of encoding on the server side rather than onboard, and my system is revealing enough, so would prefer to do that. Most of my music is in AIFF format, with a few hundred FLAC albums in there, so again...I wonder what the best strategy would be? I know you can code FLAC as PCM on the server side...but can you do this with AIFF? Coming from a PC music server background I'm very much grounded in the benefits of getting the playback device to do as little work as possible, so extra decoding/uncompressing steps in teh chain would be something I'd want to avoid. Use Jriver to convert AIFF to Flac? To WAV? Is there a "best way" this old ocd audiophile could be happy knowing the Transporter setup is optimised in the way I'm thinking? :) Heres my current File Type settings. Thanks very much. '[image: http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq61/gazjamster/Clipboard01.jpg]' (http://s434.photobucket.com/user/gazjamster/media/Clipboard01.jpg.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gazjam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103125 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
