------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48430 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Does a dedicated PC/music server sound better than a PC used for other duties? - Yes it does. - No it doesn't make any difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nuuk;308661 Wrote: > So are you saying Ron that sound quality could be affected when using a > PC that is used for 'other tasks'? > > I don't think that was the case here because the sound now appears to > be the same on both PCs after replacing Squeezecenter 7.0 with 7.1. Of > course, as Phil pointed out, I may have had something like the Bitrate > setting in 7.0 set wrong. Can we put this one to bed now - please? This has NOTHING to do with sound quality. To use an analogy... Do your web pages ever look fuzzy or hard to read? No - because eventually the TCP/IP packets carrying the HTML make their way across the internet to your PC as intended by the web page designer. Your PC hardware cannot affect those TCP/IP packets and their content...only how quickly they arrive and are rendered on the screen. Likewise, choice of PC or Mac hardware to run the Squeezecenter software on will NOT (repeat NOT) affect sound quality when you listen to music - unless you have a faulty set up in which case you will get either NO music or music that badly breaks up...this isn't an audio fidelity issue, it's a computing issue...either that web page arrives or it doesn't...or it takes ages and arrives in chunks... People have dedicated servers (I don't by the way) because they just want their audio system to work like a toaster or kettle. it's NOTHING to do with sound quality. Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48430 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
