magiccarpetride;583750 Wrote: > Certainly. The Beatles 24-bit FLACs sound amazingly better if you > disable FLAC on mysqueezebox server (http://localhost:9000) and force > the server itself to do the conversion to PCM using the computer's CPU. > The tradeoff is higher bandwidth requirement (the resulting files are > much larger than FLAC), but I haven't noticed any adverse effects in my > configuration. > > But freeing up the Touch from the chores of doing any extra heavy > lifting is definitely of a huge benefit to the resulting sound quality. > I was now able to hear previously hidden nuances on songs such as "Glass > Onion" etc. Flip back to forcing the Touch to deal with the FLAC > natively, and all those nuances get masked by the noise introduced by > the transport who's now forced to be messing with the FLAC.
Possibly if you are using the analogue outputs of the Touch - but the digital output is not changed by these tweaks. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82745 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
