Sleestack;132914 Wrote: > How does this impact sound quality? Is there any data/evidnce of the > differences? I really would like to know.
I assume he simply means putting the PC far from the SB so as to avoid noise from fans. That's not a very good reason - my PC is essentially totally silent; it's very easy to build or buy one like that these days. Furthermore you can have the PC far away and still use wireless... The sound quality of a wired and wireless connections is identical, so long as the wireless network has enough bandwidth to transmit a FLAC or WAV. That's never been a problem for my network, and if it is it will manifest itself as a stoppage in the music, not as decreased sound quality. The information sent to the SB buffer is exactly the same in both cases - first it gets sent, is received by the SB, then it is processed and played back (again by the SB). There are essentially no bit errors due to TCP/IP error checking (both for wired and wireless). So there is no way there can be any difference, unless you believe that the different processing for wired versus wireless incoming data packets affects the sound, in which case you'd better check the phase of the moon as well. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26949 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
