st2000;304264 Wrote: > > > Still, no deterrently the two DACs will perform identically w.r.t. time > > - right? > > Interesting, so explain to me where the transcoding (decompression) is > > taking place given I start with a FLAC. From what you are saying, it > happens on the Trasporter (i.e. the SqueezeBoxes) and not the server. > > Sooo, if I only had an SB1, even though I rip in FLAC, the server will > > transcode (compress it) to an mp3, serve it up to the SB1, then the SB1 > > will transcode it (decompress it) back to PCM... And I don't get any > of > the benefits of Lossless Compression. i.e. There is no such thing as > "pass through" on any of the SqueezeBox products w.r.t. the digital > signal out on the SPDIF port?
While you are right that there is a possibility of a delay between the analog and digital outputs, in practice it is very small - almost certainly less than the difference in delay you would get from moving some speakers around. As OP has found! In Squeezeboxes (which includes the Transporter for this discussion) the big buffering takes place on the input end (the network port coming in). So synchronising the output of a Squeezebox with, say, a video player on the server is pretty much impossible. There are smarts in the SBs which allow synchronisation of multiple SBs, though. As for where transcoding takes place - it can be either on the server or on the player, according to how it is configured. Actually if you were playing a FLAC file to an SB1 you'd get better results, network permitting, if you had the server transcode to WAV for the SB1 to play directly. That would be lossless throughout. For SB2 onwards you'd send FLAC to the player and let the player decode to PCM. Whether this is what you mean by "pass through" I have no idea.... HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47913 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
