mjl33 wrote: > I'm hearing sounds differences in between CastBRidge and UPNP Bridge. > I'll give you some background and maybe you can help me understand what > I am hearing. > > My setup: > > Daphile server (LMS 7.9.2), Material Skin controller, streaming to a > Naim Muso-2 (wired connection) > > I first streamed to the Muso-2 using the UPNP Bridge plugin. Works > flawlessly and sounds great. I've had that set up since I got the Muso 8 > months ago. I few weeks ago I tried the CastBridge plugin just on a > lark. The Muso-2 has built in Chromecast. The first thing I noticed was > that using CastBridge the sound level was lower than when I use the UPNP > Bridge. I set the listening level 50% UPNP to 60% using CastBridge. Then > I immediately started to notice some nuances in the music itself. The > CastBridge has less edge to the music and seemed less bright and even > less fatiguing after longer listening sessions. I've come to prefer the > sound more than the UPNP stream. This surprised me. I did not come to > his decision overnight. It's been a few weeks of back and forth. > > Can someone explain to me what and why I am hearing this difference? Any > rational explanations? > > Here are some tracks I played today all streamed from Qobuz. The > difference to me is clear. > > 1) Diana Krall - The Girl In The Other Room from same named CD > 2) Brian Auger - Ella - from the Language of the Heart CD > 3) Van Morrison - Higher Than the World - from Duets CD with George > Benson > > Thanks for taking the time to reply.
If you have not setup any of my bridge to do transcoding (both use "none" for transcode), then there is no bit-level difference as far as the bridges are concerned. Only thing is that audio level forwarded to UPnP/Chromecast are indeed different, but that's just a command, no change to samples. So unless the Muso-2 does something different when decoding the same stream, there should be no difference. And that's not network, ethernet or anything like that. Only option is a different DSP processing in the Muso LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
