Erik L;547809 Wrote: > Aha, that may explain why I cannot get as good sound quality from my SB > as compared to when I use my normal universal player as transport. I > thought the lesser sound quality was mostly due to HF pollution from > the wifi circuit.I am curious, what do you mean by "HF pollution" really?
WiFi does not change the payload data in any way shape of form, so what you have on the disk is what you get at the other end. However, with any radio environment there is of course interference and coverage issues that makes it more or less difficult to transmit what it is you are transmitting. The result of that is that your bitrate is reduced, as interference increases and reception quality is reduced. It may even get so low that you can't send a live WAV stream, or a FLAC stream and have to revert to mp3, but then your WiFi setup really needs to be reviewed... The alternative to that would be to wait until all of the song has been received in a buffer and then play it, however long it takes. But as long as the connection is maintained the bits are the same at both ends, that's the job of the transmission protocols. If there are bit errors, then they are corrected with e.g. retransmission. Actually it's no different than comparing a WAV file with a FLAC version or other Lossless formats, ZIP for example. The compression that is done with FLAC saves space but does not change or remove any data whatsoever! That's the whole point of using FLAC, but it's also why FLAC files are quite large compared to an mp3 file. What you May experience however is of course that one player gives a much better sound quality than another. But that has to do with other parts of the chain, specifically in the conversion from Digital to Analog and in all that comes after that... -- Gblenn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gblenn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22759 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
