Kuro wrote: > The potential advantage of the Cubox is that it has no Wifi. If you > want max audio quality, Wifi should not be in an audio device. > > I did some tests using my modded Transporter. Wired LAN beats the > performance of wifi if the Supra CAT 7 LAN cable is used. If you use > just any ordinary CAT 5e cable, then wired and wireless will sound > roughly the same or wifi can sound a little better. Don't ask me why > the LAN cable makes for a huge improvement in sound, but it really did. > Now if the Wifi mini-PCI card is removed from the Transporter, plus I > use the Supra CAT 7 LAN cable, the sound is significantly better. The > dynamics, density, vividness are much better. > > The router also affects the sound, I cannot explain why either, but my > Apple Airport Extreme (5th gen) sounds quite a bit better than a Netgear > R6300. > > So I see the built-in wifi of the Wandboard as a significant sonic > limitation of the final product, unless the wifi and bluetooth chips can > be turned off completely.
I agree, I use a meicord lan cable with similar effect. I first used the remove wifi card trick on squeezebox 3 and that made quite a difference to the sound quality, so it should definately be a consideration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
