sc53;696939 Wrote: > I have been using iTunes for years but would never go to Apple TV or > Airport Express instead of using my Squeezeboxes and LMS. Why? The > Apple devices, using the digital outs to my DACs, sound like crap. The > Squeezebox Classics and Touch that I use sound as good as my CDs in a > good player. The OP is not really an "audiophile" type listener as he > admits he doesn't even insist on streaming lossless files. If MP3's > sound OK to you, I'm sure Apple devices are fine. Also, my stereo > systems are in different rooms from my TV so that is a nonstarter as > well. Apple TV is cool for streaming movies but that is all--IMO. As a > music player it is merely adequate--like listening to an iPod in your > car.
Lossy codecs on embedded players is another thing, there are shortcuts made the lack of floating point math for example . Squeezeboxes suffers from this to so they are best used with lossles audio . This is sometimes discovered by users popping in to the forum . On a computer 320kbps mp3 is by all known science indistinguishable to a lossles file, not so on a squeezebox or any other cpu limited player btw . It can sometimes be heard on some material . This is normally not a problem, sitting on the bus with sweaty earbuds in a portable players . But Squeezebox is a corner case here you connect that -kind- of player to a real hifi . The oddjobs being audiophiles ? and using 320kbps mp3 can use server-side transcoding to fix this . or ffs use lossless files :) (there multiple other good reasons beside sq ) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94223 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
