Re: [slim] Any reason why a SB3 playing FLAC out Toslink would sound different than a CD player?

2009-06-15 Thread radish
If anyone wants to discuss the effects (or lack thereof) of jitter, you probably want to head over to the Audiophile forum :) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this

Re: [slim] Any reason why a SB3 playing FLAC out Toslink would sound different than a CD player?

2009-06-14 Thread JadeMonkee
Also Google for any test showing that jitter actually makes an audible difference. You probably won't find anything. The posts above say it all; yes you can get a bit perfect copy from CD to DAC using a squeezebox and good ripping software to rip the CDs to flac. No need for an expensive CD

Re: [slim] Any reason why a SB3 playing FLAC out Toslink would sound different than a CD player?

2009-06-13 Thread Nonreality
Volume level on your inputs are also one of the things that fool people all the time. Even audiophiles get fooled into thinking on source is better than another and then find out that the input level was louder on it. I know from personal experience, not that I'm an audiophile or anything. It

Re: [slim] Any reason why a SB3 playing FLAC out Toslink would sound different than a CD player?

2009-06-13 Thread Robin Bowes
DrewSB wrote: Let's say you have a SB3 connected via Toslink to a receiver and are playing FLAC files ripped from a CD. Is there any reason this would not sound identical to the same CD being played through a decent CD player's Toslink output? Both players should be sending identical bits to

[slim] Any reason why a SB3 playing FLAC out Toslink would sound different than a CD player?

2009-06-12 Thread DrewSB
Let's say you have a SB3 connected via Toslink to a receiver and are playing FLAC files ripped from a CD. Is there any reason this would not sound identical to the same CD being played through a decent CD player's Toslink output? Both players should be sending identical bits to the receiver, or

Re: [slim] Any reason why a SB3 playing FLAC out Toslink would sound different than a CD player?

2009-06-12 Thread Mnyb
DrewSB;431628 Wrote: Let's say you have a SB3 connected via Toslink to a receiver and are playing FLAC files ripped from a CD. Is there any reason this would not sound identical to the same CD being played through a decent CD player's Toslink output? Both players should be sending identical