Most computer-style soundcards that resample from 44.1 to 48khz do it badly, and you can hear it the most in the treble. It sounds like someone threw a towel over the speakers. Some are particularly bad; the USB Audigy 2NX, for example, is just appalling.
If you can hear a clear difference between a CD and WMA lossless, then it's the XBox's resampling that's almost certainly the issue. The Squeezebox Classics have an excellent DAC; I don't know about the new ones. If you play a lossless file through one, you should get sound that's at _least_ as good as your CD, and very possibly better. There's no resampling going on, and the DAC is a nice Burr-Brown part. It's an older, cheaper DAC, but it's still excellent. You should solve your problem very nicely with a Squeezebox. If you can tell a difference between the two, you'll probably prefer the Squeezebox. -- Malor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47401 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
