Spotifys lossy ogg coding has a magnitude greater impact than any of the DAC's mentioned including the TP . Also,the Apple TV does it resample ? It can have a negative impact
If noticeable it at all it would be small . Most bang for buck would be to setup an LMS server and stream lossles Flac files , then you can explore the limits of these DAC's as for now the bottleneck is not the DAC . Normally 320k ogg encoding should be transparent ( 320k Lame MP3 is if I make the files myself ) but for some reason it's in practice not from streaming services , the have not done perfect encodings ? It's a mystery why , but I chalk it up to missing QC in general , the stuff gets uploaded by the labels themselfs etc . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=106435 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
