Before purchasing my squeezebox, since I planned on using it mostly for Pandora and internet radio, I did a test by recording a wav file while Pandora was playing, cycling through a few stations for a good sample, then burning the test file to a CD and playing it in my CD player. I decided what I heard sounded good enough to go ahead and buy the squeezebox.
I have a fairly good hi-fi system and can very easily hear the quality difference between 128kb and CD, but the 128kb files played on Pandora are still quite listenable, even beautiful sounding (like with some nice choral music - try creating a station based on 'Arvo Part'.) There was a lot more revealed by going through my hi-fi compared to the computer speakers. Enough so that it was well worth it for me. The quality is good enough that I get a real good feel for how the music will actually sound if I purchase the CD, and I can judge the recording quality. The typical headphone systems in record stores do not do this - they sound like they are about 32kb instead of 128. I'm using the coaxial digital output on the squeezebox, going to a separate D/A converter before going into the preamp/amp. -- kh6idf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kh6idf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28824 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
