Its also interesting that folks like yourself are quick to condemn that post without knowing whether or not a problem actually exists.
I am the person that posted that message on AudioAsylum, and ensuring that the player options were properly set was the very first thing I did. To ensure that nothing unexpected was going on I also monitored the Windows task manager to watched for lame.exe and/or flac.exe processes. After initial setup, the only thing I changed was the server settings under File Types to cause the server to stream FLAC or PCM. Everything else remain exactly as is. In neither case was lame being executed.
I cannot explain the differences, nor am I attempting to condemn the product. I have and enjoy both my SB1 and the new SB2 I received, but noted that we could indeed hear audible differences between the two types of streaming. I was (and are still) hoping that this information would be taken constructively by the Slim Devices folks. I cannot explain the reasons for the differences I hear, merely that they do indeed exist.
Ken
Jason wrote:
Wonderful that an "audiophile" is so quick to condemn the product on a
discussion board when he obviously has something hosed in his setup.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vidur Apparao
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:26 PM
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 audio quality.
Mike Reeve wrote:
Natan & Nicki Tiefenbrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm hooking my SB up to a Linn
DAC, and even with raw WAVs it doesn't sound half as good as the CD player with digital out, so I assume it's to do with the clocking.
Hi
Just in case you are running a wireless set up ...
... have you checked (and I apologise if you have already
done so) that
you have set Player Settings > Bitrate Limiting to No Limit?
[Recall that it defaults to transcoding to 320Kbps MP3 ...
... I forgot this once after changing my set up and had a moment of shock/panic until I remembered :-O]
My suggestion exactly. We've done bit-accuracy testing with FLAC, so it's definitely not in the decoder on the box. My guess is that there's
MP3 transcoding going on.
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