drmatt wrote: > I'm not sure all DACs do sound the same (though I agree the differences > are extremely small), but that seems to be a holy war round here so I'm > not going to debate it further, just leave the OP to experiment at > leisure. > > I am not into orchestral music so my requirements don't match the OPs > and I don't see any need to push beyond CD quality for the material I'm > listening to... Hence I have no experience of EDO or transcoding DSD on > LMS. So I'll go away now.. :)
I did not say all DAC but all decent sources to that DAC . People attribute big differences to sources ... The transcoding features may be in use more often than you think , for example the standard setting for WAV is to transcoder to flac to preserve bandwith ( a good thing if you use wifi ) the older squeezeboxes don't play AAC. And you can be surprised what's 24/96 I bougth an jazz album at bandcamp that was 24/96 it was not in the description or anouced in any way and priced no different than CD I have several examples . Some artists just put up thier master and don't bother to make a 16/44.1 version as they never plan to release on physical media . Enough OT the transcoding framework can throw surprises at you if you tweak the settings to much and it's a prerequisite to DSD play . Now I have very few DSD files as there is almost no content aviable and of those they are usually also aviable in PCM hirez or cd res . So they few that I have is DSD only releases . So special DSD hardware is a waste , your going to listen to what :) pick new hardware if you want but DSD capacity is not a good deciding factor it's cool if it's there but not a deal breaker especially if you have the DSD play plugin. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106129 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
