garym;612104 Wrote: > i don't want to get into the other debate either. But I do just have to > say, that if the network connection isn't good (whether wifi or > ethernet, or homeplug, etc.) it doesn't "degrade" sound quality. It > causes dropouts, silence, excessive buffering, etc. It doesn't "reduce > soundstage, remove depth, etc.). Bits are bits and no one should try to > adapt analog music connection issues to digital transportation of bits. > If the WIFI is strong, the bits arriving at the TOUCH will be identical > to the bits arriving via ethernet. But again, I know you didn't want to > go there, so I'm not expecting a response on this. > > But to answer your question. No. you can't use the VBA the way you are > wanting to. You might as well hook your netbook (with music on it, or > connected via USB drive) up near your DAC, connect the netbook to the > DAC, the DAC to the stereo, and leave the TOUCH out of the equation. > There is no internet radio you can get via the touch that you can't > just get on your netbook with about any player (foobar2000, winamp, > itunes, etc.)
and to be clear the VBA is just a computer. No different from your netbook other than the fact that it doesn't have a keyboard or monitor (you access it from a webbrower on a different computer to control things). The VBA runs a special linux based OS and does some other interesting things re: ripping. But at the end of the day, it is just a computer. I use one on my network for feeding several SB Players through the house. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85420 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
