In case anyone is interested, Chill hit the nail on the head earlier in this thread, when he described the "golden period" of buffer only playback, during which time the computer and network can have NO effect at all on replay quality.
If anyone on this forum believes that test is flawed because the damage has already been done and the bits in the buffer are wrong, then they are simply in denial of the truth. The bits cannot be wrong... They represent the bits from the disk, sent as bits inside IP packets. This is computer data processing and has NO audiophile issues with it. It works exactly the same way that every network I the world works and I think if there was a generic issue we would have heard about it by now... Furthermore, the final nail in the coffin is the fact that both HDCD and wav-wrapped DTS playback perfectly. Let's be clear on this; IF EVEN A SINGLE BIT WAS WRONG, DTS and HDCD would not decode properly. So whatever people claim to be hearing, it has nothing to do with "the bits" -- 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/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones 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=93257 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
