Hello all, Little history: I've been searching the net, but could not find the answer for few weeks. I'd been a fun process, but I've spent a lot of time searching the net, and still have not made a progress. I had my SBT for 1.5years, and just recently purchased a DAC ( Emotiva DC-1 ). It came with USB cable, that I was trying to beat and bought about 10+ cables (including USB, coax & toslinks), but under a certain price range none sound as good as this USB cable. From my experience, USB (with different cables, sounded the best, then coax and optical shared 2nd place, coax for natural sound and punch, while toslink connection has the same clarity as USB, depending on the cables)
The problem that I encountered immediately once I connected the DAC, was that it playing 24-96 FLACs/APEs just fine, but anything beyond that started to make SBT "buffer". The frequency of buffering seems to relate to how big the original FLAC is, and how dense with music elements the moment is. Which is logical. So my first reaction was that I have to upgrade the router. However, then I had found toslink, just to try. And viola, without doing anything, it plays all the same files without a hitch. 24-192, no problem. If I were to find a toslink wire that would sound as good as USB, I'd probably "eat" it. But as of now, I am, naturally listening to it via USB, since it's the best I have, and just avoiding the recordings I have in my library in 24-192kb I've tried the following settings: Buffer Size > Max and the other one that prevents CPU from idling, these have not helped. Please help if this sounds familiar. Or if you think you have a better idea than me. Thanks beforehands! PS: if anyone wants to hear results of my "junior" cable comparisons please wink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nevermind5's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62767 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
