tcutting;524037 Wrote: > I would argue with your statement that "the only way I will get the > highest sound quality is not with a wireless device at all, but to plug > my laptops usbs direct into something like the dacmagic or V-DAC." With > the squeezebox setup, the fact that it's wireless doesn't affect the > sound quality. The only issue with wireless is that it's possible to > have some type of interference which could cause buffers to underrun, > resulting in a dropout. As long as the network is stable, the quality > of the sound is determined SOLELY by the player hardware. As the > squeezebox player is isolated from things like noisy power supplies, > fans and other EMI emmiters which are present in a PC, this eliminates a > potential degradation effect which would be present on any type of PC. > Second, the Squeezebox hardware is designed as a music player, with > attention paid to the audio circuitry, clock generation, for the best > audio possible. > As far as album covers, etc, if tagging and album covers are clean, SBS > should be able to use that as-is. Out of curiosity, what format are > your music files in? How is cover art stored? I don't know if you've > actually tried Squeezeboxserver? It's downloadable for free. In fact, > before I had a peice of Squeezebox hardware, I had the server up and > running, and used a laptop with "Softsqueeze" to get a real feel for how > the system works. You could try something similar, possibly with > Squeezeplay as a software player emulator, to get a feel for how > compatible your existing music files and tags are with Squeezebox > server. Be aware, however, that the "software" players don't measure up > to the performance and stability of the dedicated "hardware" players.
Most of my music files are 320kbs mp3s but I have a lot of FLAC files also and it is now my preferred format. The cover art is a small jpg in the file with the music files, artist / album in different folders. I have had a little play with moose tonight and it is a nice interface and im sure it should only get better with time. I think I will look out for a squeeze box now as you all have convinced me with the quality and the DAC that is in it will be fine as it is to start im sure. But I would rather get two recivers rather than one and a remote. This is probably another post but does anyone know a simplified way to get them configured without the remote? -- west_sounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ west_sounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36895 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76038 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
