Just by way of the follow up to last October's thread.
I have connected the Transporter to a fibre optic input on the Yamaha
and it sounds great in PURE mode. STRAIGHT is OK but switching to PURE
makes the sound more acceptable to our ears (which is what counts in the
end).
I have also added
garym wrote:
> may even require a ban of the member! :p
>
> (the problem is that I see so much amazingly funny stuff posted by
> people who are actually serious, that my "detector" is no longer working
> properly.)
Just to establish my credibility [ ] to all [ ]: I have two Squeezebox
MichaelJ wrote:
> Oh my gosh...levity in the audiophile forum. Shouldnt that be reported
> to a moderator?:)
Aw come on guys, I did do it WITHOUT a smiley [ ] <- I can't
tell you what I wanted to put in there.
garym wrote:
> Why? That certainly has no impact on sound quality, and you lose the
> built in CRC in FLAC files (to be able to batch check for file
> corruption in the future), good tagging, among other benefits of FLAC.
Sorry, I should have put a smiley face at the end of that sentence Gary.
cliveb wrote:
> It doesn't matter whether or not your Yamaha amp re-digitises an
> analogue signal.
> Nor does it matter what anyone here says about which is better.
> All that matters is what sounds good to you - and only you can figure
> that out.
> Try it both ways and pick the one you like
garym wrote:
> I'd connect Analog out from Transporter to the Yamaha, assuming the
> yamaha has a way of bypassing it's own DAC (is that the Straight mode?)
Thanks Gary.
I am thinking that the answer is "yes" and I will pull the cabinet out
and take a look coupled with trying to read through
Having overloaded on reading up and trying to work out the answer, could
one of you knowledgeable chaps (and chappeses) point me in the right
direction for the final decisions that I need to make please.
I have the music stored on a NAS which is no problem, I feed the
Transporter via the
