Quoting hualon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
So if I were to just bite the bullet and buy a SB2, would I get:
A) Higher resistance to audio dropouts
yes. The buffer is 64Mb now, plus the preferred trancoding format is
FLAC, using half the bandwidth of WAV without any loss is quality.
B) Higher audio quality when streaming Apple Lossless?
That depends on how you use it. If you have SB1 on a wired network
transcoding to WAV and using the digital outs, it is probably the same.
The analog output is greatly improved with SB2/3, however.
So does the transcoding process on the SB1 maintain the lossless audio
quality or does it downsample? What about the SB2? I'm not concerned
with the transcoded file format but I would prefer that it maintains
its lossless quality.
SB1 when wired will transcode to WAV format, and by default for
wireless will transcode to MP3. The MP3 default is 320kbps, which is
fairly good quality but is still lossy. WAV would be lossless as long
as the source is lossless.
SB2 handles FLAC natively. FLAC is also a lossless format, so you will
have no loss in quality from your Apple Lossless files. Your CPU will
have to put in a bit more effort due to the on-the-fly conversion of
ALC-to-FLAC.
-kdf
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