maggior wrote: > > Whether a squeezebox or a BT speaker system appeals to you depends on > what your PRIMARY music source is. If you are a high school or college > kid, it's likely nowadays that your primary music source is some > protable device like an iPod, andriod phone, tablet, etc. For those > people, the BT speaker system would best suit their needs. For the rest > of us, the squeezebox is the best fit. > Completely agree and this is also the main reason why a BT (or AirPlay) solution isn't going to work for me personally, I need a single source -> multiple players/controllers solution (like Squeezebox/Sonos) and not a single source/controller -> single player solution (like BT or AirPlay).
maggior wrote: > > I've actually started using BT Audio (A2DP) in my car (2012 Volvo S60) > with my Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2. I was VERY surprised by the audio > quality. My ears can't tell the difference between this setup and my > old 80 GB iPod hard wired into the iPod interface. Both devices have > mp3 made with LAME at default settings (~190kbps I think?). So even > though there is reencoding of a lossy source going on, it still sounds > really good...in a car environment at least. Now when I had the trial > Sirius/XM subscription, that was horrible!!! To my ears, it wasn't too > much better than AM radio. So the audio system in the car can be > revealing. > Have you tested or do you think you would be able to hear difference between a lossless file and a 190kbps MP3 in the car environment ? Just asking to get a feeling how good your car audio environment is, because if you can't hear difference between a lossless file and a 190kbps MP3 a bluetooth solution might be good enough because there might be other components limiting the system more than the bluetooth does. I'm personally fairly sure that both MP3 and bluetooth is good enough for a lot of people, the question is just if it's good enough in a listening room setup for people that really care about audio quality. For bluetooth to replace Squeezebox in my home from an audio quality perspective, its really important that it at least doesn't result in that my FLAC files sounds like MP3's or even worse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95977 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
