diego;602712 Wrote: > Thanks Phil, for your reply! > > Based on my proper experience with a touch and a pretty "audiophile" > chain behind, including an external DAC, I confirm, that converting > FLACs to WAV on the server does indeed sound better than streaming the > FLACs as such to the Touch - as far as 16 bit / 44 khz FLAC files are > concerned. > > Now, may I just add one question, can you please clarify, where you > have that certainty from, that no down-sampling happens? Have you seen > inside the squeezebox server software and analyzed it? Or have you > somehow measured the stream? Because just 1/2-phrase statements of > "developers" without any rationale do not actually sound very > convincing to me... (Like e.g. Andy's here: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80563&page=1 ). In > particular, the "rationale" there is not convincing at all. To say that > the bitrate indicated is only a "guess" is strange. It is pretty easy to > guess, that the weight of a 24bit/96khz pcm stream is NOT the same as > the one of a CD type of stream... I can't actually believe that > squeezebox developers "guess" so extremely wrong! > > So, if you have any further clarification, that would be great!
My TACT shows the incoming sample rate of the bitstream from my Touch on its display... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84787 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
