Step one. I ripped a lot of my CDs to FLAC and realised that was the way forward.
Step two. I bought a decent but inexpensive DAC (a Beresford) Step three. I bought a SB3 to get rid of the noisy Shuttle PC frot the lounge and to sidestep re sampling and other sound card issues. BUT if find I spend far more time listening to Classical Internet Radio. Radio Bartok at 320Kb/s is very nice, but Classic FM at 128, Radio 3 at 128 and a few others are very pleasant to listen to and generally better than my Quad FM Tuner. The FLAC are clearer and cleaner, but I do enjoy the pot-luck of radio, and wth so many classical channels to choose from if something comes on air not to my taste of my mood I just flip channels. Now to the point. A lot is may of the bitrate/quality issue, but what is the sampling rate used in the transmissions? If the majority of output is from CD and the transmission is not at that rate we are back in the resampling quagmire - but I guess with compressed formats, there is less to be lost. So what sampling frequency is used, and what are the losses involved? But I still enjoy the streamed radio stations. -- Labarum Brian Squeezebox 3 Classic and Virgin Cable Box Beresford DAC TC-7510 MK6/4 - Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man Quart 980s German Tower Loudspeakers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Labarum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59012 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
