ROBBIE BURNS;550732 Wrote: > I have recently hooked up my pc/squeezebox classic to an aduio note dac > (via coxial cable) which in turn is hooked into my amp and speakers. I > am ripping cds to flac via media monkey but have noticed a degredation > in the sound quality compared to using my existing hi fi cd transport > and dac combination, my question is simple is the dac in the squeezbox > being bypassed as i have my own dac connected to the sbclassic or iam i > doing or have i missed something out help please!!!
If you're using the coax out (which looks exactly like the White/Red left/right analog outputs... I don't recall the color of digital outs), then yes, you are not using the analog portion of the SB at all. Note that you -should- set the volume of the SB to 100% (there is a setting option on the web interface to lock it there) and use the analog volume on your preamp to adjust volume. This will ensure the digital stream from the SB is exactly as intended: it is "bit perfect"... anything else will be (at least slightly) altered. You should also turn off 'replay gain' type changes... they will alter the digital signal (in order to change volume they need to do that). -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79156 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
