[slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
machinehead Wrote: I did try one of my DTS CD's, ripped to FLAC, but can't get it working on my Squeezebox 1. Not entirely sure why, there shouldn't be any bit-mangling, but I can't find any reference to DTS working on anything less than a SB2. SB1 doesn't pass the bits through quite correctly -- I asked the other day and was told, IIRC, that the sign of each 16-bit word is inverted (or something along those lines). In theory one could modify the underlying WAV to compensate for this... -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18438 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
smst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] machinehead Wrote: I did try one of my DTS CD's, ripped to FLAC, but can't get it working on my Squeezebox 1. Not entirely sure why, there shouldn't be any bit-mangling, but I can't find any reference to DTS working on anything less than a SB2. SB1 doesn't pass the bits through quite correctly -- I asked the other day and was told, IIRC, that the sign of each 16-bit word is inverted (or something along those lines). In theory one could modify the underlying WAV to compensate for this... Now that you mention that, I think I remember reading that a looonng time ago. Thanks, that would have driven me nuts. Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
kkitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] After setting the volume at full everyting worked perfectly. BTW, the Glad to hear you got it working, BTW. I did try one of my DTS CD's, ripped to FLAC, but can't get it working on my Squeezebox 1. Not entirely sure why, there shouldn't be any bit-mangling, but I can't find any reference to DTS working on anything less than a SB2. Ed ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152 hopefully the passthrough will be in a future release :) as for the sb2 instead of sb3 message it's only a string passed by the server. if you update the server it will turn to squeezebox bye giuliano -- giulianoz giulianoz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1309 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18438 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
After setting the volume at full everyting worked perfectly. BTW, the only connection from my SB3 to my receiver is the optical/dgital cable. If I have volume set at full on the SB3 will the sound quality degrade. I'm not an audiophile - but I think we've all noticed that when you crank the volume on source devices that use plain 'ol RCA jacks that you can sometimes get some distortion in the signal. Not sure if that same principal holds for optical/digital or not. As far as I could tell things sounded great... -- kkitts kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18438 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
kkitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] After setting the volume at full everyting worked perfectly. BTW, the only connection from my SB3 to my receiver is the optical/dgital cable. If I have volume set at full on the SB3 will the sound quality degrade. I'm not an audiophile - but I think we've all noticed that when you crank the volume on source devices that use plain 'ol RCA jacks that you can sometimes get some distortion in the signal. Not sure if that same principal holds for optical/digital or not. My understanding is that in this case, full volume on the Squeezebox will give you the best (100%) quality, and that seems to be confirmed by your results. Full volume passes the exact bits that are stored on the disk, whereas anything less is changing the volume _digitally_, and therefore changing the bits. It's a different animal than an analog volume control. Ed ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues
If I have volume set at full on the SB3 will the sound quality degrade. I'm not an audiophile - but I think we've all noticed that when you crank the volume on source devices that use plain 'ol RCA jacks that you can sometimes get some distortion in the signal. Not sure if that same principal holds for optical/digital or not. The principal does *not* hold. In fact, to the contrary, you will get the *best* sound quality from a digital connection like this when the source is at full volume. This is because with a digital signal there is a discrete amount of dynamic resolution, and when you lower the volume you also lower the amount of resolution. So quiet passages can be lost entirely, and other elements can lose fidelity. The reason analog audio can sound bad when driven into inputs at high levels is because the voltages supplied can literally overload the preamps and cause clipping. This is not an issue with digital audio as the digital signal voltages do not change based upon the volume level of the digital signal (just ones and zeros). The analog preamp stages in a digital processor come after the digital decoding is done and any DAC will be matched to its accompanying preamp and calibrated in such a way as to not overdrive the preamp stage. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
