paulster wrote: > One thing I'll add is that if you DAC can handle DSD then you might be > able to consider encoding your DSD music into DoP FLAC format, so it is > still native DSD but inside a PCM wrapper. > > Only thing I'm not sure of is whether 24/96 is a sufficiently-sized > container for it. If it is then you wouldn't have to have any > conversion of your native DSD material, and the Transporter will merrily > think it's playing PCM.
No 24/96 is not enough for DoP . I concur with the idea to use flac as much as possible for the transporter I suggest not to use the highest compression rates for 24/96 something like -5 would do , Transporter can on rare occasions hiccup on hard compressed flac files . Do you already have such files ? Easy to fix flac them again with a lower setting from the files you have . That's the Beaty of lossless . On server decoding helps with some rare MP3 ( well documented ) . Aiff possibly needed for higher rates it is soo on Touch it does not play 24/96 aiff . Alac TP does not play it Touch does but not hirez so server transcoding needed . Flac and WAV works all the way to 24/96 unproblematic to use . However the default setting in LMS is to server transcode wav to flac the purpose is to save wifi bandwith it is a really good idea to keep it that way . Flac files have much better tag support so there it is again . There simply is no need to transcode flac to pcm on the server . The file types setting are not really " quality settings " they are there to handle odd cases where the default rules don't work such as NAS boxes and software players or very odd radio channels . With a "normal" server and a Transporter you can just leave them at the factory settings , you can often create you own problems by changing them to much. I know that there is a shool of thought that server transcoding "sounds better" but in fact the squeezeboxes outputs the exact same thing electrically with every lossles format so whats on the outputs does not change . if you " hear a difference " anyway when there is none. I may suggest a properly conducted ABX test that should settle that and make life and fiddling with LMS easier :) And delete all reaplay gain tags in the flac files when doing ABX . I think a large amount of FUD around FLAC vs WAV comes from the fact that FLAC can use replay gain tags ,these tells the player hardware to play the files with a differen and in 99% of the case lower volume ! that sound really different ! All gain functions can be turned off in the player settings , there are many formats that use volume normalisation I prefer not to . Also to guarantee bit perfect output to the DAC gain settings should be off its not enough to have the volume at 100% Another venue for experimentation is to actually not use 100% volume with the external ( or internal ) DAC on some recordings . Not all DAC's handle intersample peaks well , this can be an issue with modern over compressed loudness war recordings . Intersample peak,or intersample,over ismthe term to Google . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (spares Touch, 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=103125 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
