Re: [slim] Why does Chrome Cast audio sound better than squeezebox classic?

2016-05-06 Thread mandryka
bpa wrote: > Have you checked that no transcoding or resampling is happening ? How do I check for that? mandryka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53967 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Why does Chrome Cast audio sound better than squeezebox classic?

2016-05-06 Thread bpa
mandryka wrote: > How do I check for that? Depend ons on which OS. When you are playing a stream - has LMS any subprocesses running somehting like faad, flac or sox. On windows socketwrapper.exe will be the controlling applications.

Re: [slim] Why does Chrome Cast audio sound better than squeezebox classic?

2016-05-06 Thread bpa
Have you checked that no transcoding or resampling is happening ? bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105557

Re: [slim] Why does Chrome Cast audio sound better than squeezebox classic?

2016-05-06 Thread Man in a van
mandryka wrote: > I am convinced that music through my ChromeCast audio sounds better than > music through my squeezebox classic. Better image, more lively, more > real. Same DAC - both use the same external DAC, and same speakers and > amp. Same music files. > > Am I kidding myself? Can this

[slim] Why does Chrome Cast audio sound better than squeezebox classic?

2016-05-06 Thread mandryka
I am convinced that music through ChromeCast sounds better than music through my squeezebox classic. Better image, more lively, more real. Same DAC - both use the same external DAC. Same music files. Am I kidding myself? Can this possibly be?

Re: [slim] Why does Chrome Cast audio sound better than squeezebox classic?

2016-05-06 Thread Julf
Man in a van wrote: > a certain movie clip springs to mind Indeed. 'This one' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFKT4jvN4OEhttp://). :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will