I'm playing with buying a transporter and have read all the threads comparing it with a modded sqeezebox. By chance I changed my server hard- and software and was astonished that different server sources sound so different. Has anybody made the same experiences, and does anybody know why and what kind of influences are behind? Here my configurations, all are with the 6.5.2 Slimserver and the 81 client SW: a) Synology DS106X (256 MB RAM) with a LINUX operating system. serial ATA Disk. b) Slim client with Xubuntu 7.04 and timetra crusoe processor (512 MB RAM), with a via network interface controller. Disk of the DS106X is mounted with SMB. c) VIA EPIA CN1000 board (1GB RAM), musik files on the attached 2.5" Serial ATA Harddisk. Win XP. d) VIA EPIA CN1000 board (1GB RAM), musik files on the attached 2.5" Serial ATA Harddisk. Xubuntu. Listening with: modded Squeezebox 3 (linear power supply, jitter-reducing converter to AES/EBU Output), siltech golden ridge cable, AQVOX 2.0 D/A-Converter and Stax 007t/Omega2 earspeaker. Compared with CD on a Phillips PRO 2M drive with the same jitter-reducing converter to AES/EBU Output and the same listening equippment. At start, I loaded always the client sw in the squeezebox and played the Densen Demagnetizer Track to ensure the same base for comparing. All results depend on my personal listening of 10 different WAV files - no objective measurement. I found: a) sound stage: not as deep as with the (excellent) CD drive , instrument location good, but not excellent, sound is rich, but in the very deepest details not as clear as the CD Player. I like this sound. b) sound stage: compressed, more depth than width, instrument location floating, sound has a little bit less dynamic than a) or the CD player. c) sound stage better than the CD player, instrument location excellent, sound with a little bit more contour, not a "soft" sound, Dynamic OK - this could become the best solution, quality at least as good as the CD player but sound coloration and reproduction a little bit different. d) sound stage better than the CD player, instrument location good, sound a little bit agressive, tends to shrill - not for listening over hours, Dynamic not as good as c).
It seems to me that the differences of the servers are bigger than the differences between a modded Squeeezebox an the transporter and bigger than the differences between FLAC and WAV. I would be happy to get your oppinions to this topic. Georg -- Georgie Slimserver 6.5.1 / SSODS 2.12 / DS106X / SB3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Georgie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35382 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
