woodnut;561668 Wrote:
>
> I have been looking at the Sheevaplug mentioned to me by a forum member
> in one of my older threads and although my SB Touch is working fine as a
> standalone at the moment (ripped 120 CDs so far) I wondered if there
> would be any sonic benefit to getting a NAS such as the sheevaplug in
> the future?
>
I suspect the performance are going to be better with the Sheevaplug
but I haven't really verified this myself. I'm skeptical if it will
make any difference to the audio output, I just think it will take some
load of the Touch making the menu navigation faster and causing less
number of spontaneous reboots.
If you are looking for performance, a Vortexbox solution is probably
going to be faster than a Sheevaplug, the main(only?) reason to choose
the Sheevaplug is probably the price difference. However, if you are
looking into optimizing the audio quality by using WAV instead of FLAC,
I suspect you have connected the the Touch to really high-end equipment
and in that case I suspect the price difference isn't an issue.
woodnut;561668 Wrote:
>
> Would I be able to do all the Flac decoding on the sheeva as
> recommended in soundchecks SB Touch Mods blog? Would I be able to do
> the other mods recommended in that blog?
>
I'm very skeptical if FLAC decoding on the server side really will
improve the audio quality. Has anyone really been able to hear any
difference between WAV and FLAC in a A/B blind test ?
I believe the Touch CPU is a lot faster than the old CPU used in
Classic/Boom/Transporter and even on those devices the FLAC decoding
doesn't cause enough CPU usage to be a problem. Using an external
server, for example a Sheevaplug, to run the Squeezebox Server software
on instead of using the built-in server should make a lot bigger
difference regarding CPU usage.
If you give us a bit more information about which equipment the Touch
is connected to it's a bit easier to give you recommendations.
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