Thanks for the input ceejay. As I said, I didn't think you were wrong,
I'm trying to come up with ways to verify this myself as this is a
pretty obscure question to ask the manufacturers/sales reps - and only
a select few equipment designers really know for sure.
ceejay;169089 Wrote:
A/V receivers don't usually have a true analog bypass, so you may find
that analog is worse.
This isn't because the SB3 DAC is worse than the DAC in your receiver,
it's that most A/V receivers work with all audio streams in the digital
domain. The DSP in your receiver implements things like
Since this question gets asked so often, I've made a wiki page here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AVReceivers
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DeWayne, interesting Wiki. Based on that and other posts here someone
using an AVR would be mostly wasting their money buying a Transporter,
since the internal DAC and preamp should be bypassed anyway. I have
tried doing an A-B between the analog and digital outputs of my SB2
into my Harmon
I have a Denon 2805. In Direct or pure Direct mode, it really is
Analog all the way through (does NOT do A-D-A conversion), although it
does go digital in Stereo mode.
Personally I found it sounded significantly better using analog out
from the SB (I was using an SB2), even using
I'll give my impressions using receivers - I started out with a Denon
1602, then an 1803 (for 6-channel). I didn't have a Squeezebox back
then or very good speakers until the last few months with the 1803.
The sound was good but when I compared it to an all-analog setup
attached to the speakers
I remember reading a previous post of yours, Mark, and it dealt with
Dolby Pro Logic IIx. At that time I tried the analog output from my
SB2 to my Pioneer and I preferred the digital with the Dolby Pro Logic
IIx. I'm not sure what the Slimserver version was at that time but I
think it's time to
Mike Meyer;169047 Wrote:
So with analog, what comes out of my 5.1 speakers? Just 2.1?
Not even. If you use direct or bypass, bass management is disabled,
you get 2.0.
With Stereo mode, you do have bass management, so 2.1, but you also get
the extra A-D conversion. This isn't strictly 2.1,
ceejay;169028 Wrote:
I have a Denon 2805. In Direct or pure Direct mode, it really is
Analog all the way through (does NOT do A-D-A conversion), although it
does go digital in Stereo mode.
Ceejay: I'm curious how you know this.
I'm not at all suggesting you're wrong, but I'd like to know
Mark Lanctot;169067 Wrote:
Ceejay: I'm curious how you know this.
I'm not at all suggesting you're wrong, but I'd like to know how to
determine this myself. If you look at all the manufacturer literature,
they'd have you believe every one of them with a bypass mode is pure
analog bypass.
What a debate. I didn't think my question would draw so much interest.
I too run my 2805 in pure direct but with the option of the sub on.
From the posts that may or may not envoke some digital conversion.
I will get behind there and hook up some good RCA interconects and see
what I think.
I plan to move one of my SB3s down to my HT once my Transporter arrives
and feed the Pioneer VSX-49Txi with the digitial output of the SB3.
Why? I have an old Pioneer CD jukebox down there that was the old data
jail for the CDs. Its well, pointless now. So in goes the SB3 to
replace it.
Now, the
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