Welcome! You should use 7.2. It is extremely stable on XP. Most of the isssues reported are Mac or Vista related..and to be fair most of the issues are not problems with SC itself.
A must-have plugin is a very personal judgement. For me, Lazy Search and AlienBBC are mandatory, as are MusicIP and Spicefly, Lyrics and Biography The internal DAC is very good for the price. Certainly it will compete with most $500 CD players. To really get a clear improvement from an outboard DAC you need to get into Benchmark territory or higher... and you also have the additional cost of digital cabling. DAC's are another very personal area of choice. To me they are like vinyl cartridges. Most of them work fine, but some are preferred in some systems to others. The DAC will not make as much contribution to the sound as the speakers... Even the very best DAC won't overcome poor speakers, amps and cabling. Before you add an external DAC, try a replacement linear power supply on the SB. These do not cost much and believe the consensus is that the internal DAC in the SB seems to benefit. Enjoy your new purchase! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
