LarsHP wrote: > NAS versus PC - any sound quality difference? Short answer: No.
A little longer answer: Everything written about jitter having any effect in this context is bullshit. Squeezeboxes are asynchroneous wrt to Ethernet. In fact, Ethernet is asynchroneous in its nature. So don't believe the magical thinking and the noise machines who insist on it. > thus timing of the data stream could be more precise Ethernet is asynchroneous. There is no data stream, at least not in the way your sentence implies. All the data is transmitted in 'packets' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame), and as long as all the packets reach their destination, the order or timing of the packet is irrelevant. As in, mathematically/logically irrelevant. Which, in layman's terms means -completely, utterly, totally- irrelevant. The whole point of the Squeezebox is to turn those discrete packets back into a "stream" of audio. The Squeezebox is not a sound card. It is a transport. If you want to learn more about this, I suggest you start with Ethernet. Wikipedia has plenty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
