Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-27 Thread dandan123
I had no problems when I connected to mysb.com, I then increased the buffer to 10 from the default 3 and then I had no problems connecting directly (without going through mysb.com) so everything works ok now. However the audio quality is still poor on the stations I listen to regularly. I tried

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-27 Thread toby10
It's just the low kbps stream offered by those stations through RadioTime that is causing the lower audio quality. I do use a sub with my Boom. But try yours first without, then decide. Best to have the Boom placed in a corner with a lot table surface in front of it to produce more boom from the

[SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-26 Thread dandan123
I have a SB3 classic and there seem to be no forums for the classic so I decided to post here. The quality of the radio seems pretty poor as compared to a traditional receiver. I have mine hooked up to a HK Receiver and when I play the same station for example Q104.3 the radio on the HK receiver

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-26 Thread iPhone
dandan123;591064 Wrote: I have a SB3 classic and there seem to be no forums for the classic so I decided to post here. The quality of the radio seems pretty poor as compared to a traditional receiver. I have mine hooked up to a HK Receiver and when I play the same station for example

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-26 Thread toby10
Try better audio quality streams. On your player or MySB.com or web UI of your SBS server go to Internet Radio Search Put in RealDJ or AVRO, hit enter, pick a stream. These will give you an idea of what better audio quality streams can sound like on your system. As suggested, your buffering

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-26 Thread dandan123
I don't think it's my network as I can play music without any problems, it's only internet radio that has the problem. I read somewhere on these forums that increasing the buffer size fixes these issues, I'll try this when I get home. My setup is a squeezeplug running SB Server connected to a

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Quality of audio on radio stations

2010-11-26 Thread toby10
Try connecting the SB3 directly to MySB.com, see if that helps. But if you can play local music files without issue it may be your ISP doing bandwidth shaping or throttling. But it should play such streams without issue under normal circumstances. I play those AVRO 320k streams to three