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If you go a little farther and build an Audio PC with attention to detail, I feel certain you will create a transport that relays music better than any cd player.
Gary,The TacT with the Aberdeen Audio power supply is transparent and a very big improvement. I agree with you that with the stock ps the preamp/dac isn't as transparent and clean as I would have liked. However, the correction capabilities more than made up for it. Now I feel like I have my cake and I can eat it too.George
My first step will be to try a different player, plus no one has mentioned using EAC (Exact Copy)to rip CD's exactly this is probably the best software to pull music off and make it sound better, the only problem is a CD is 600-770meg.
plus no one has mentioned using EAC (Exact Copy)to rip CD's exactly this is probably the best software to pull music off and make it sound better, the only problem is a CD is 600-770meg.
About that FLAC... I've noticed a significant difference listening to FLAC vs. non-FLAC... Is it just me that hears this difference?
In Foobar, if I open my eyes and A-B Flac vs. .wav, I can sometimes convince myself there is a difference in sound. But after "blinding" myself, I've convinced myself that I can't tell between Flac and .wav.
To the fella building the Linux fileserver:Watch out! I work on the Gentoo Linux development team, so I know this first hand: Sound quality for almost all linux audio drivers is very subpar! To get an acceptable sound quality out of your sound card, you will be forced to go to a PC. If you have an Apple computer, even better. Unfortunately, the multimedia department (especially in audio) for Linux is a bit behind. The best driver I have seen for ALSA in Linux is the ice1712 driver, which supports 24/96 ...
Well actually the way it works for Squeezebox is that you don't use a soundcard at all in the PC. The Linux (in my case Redhat 9.0 b/c it was free to me) file server runs a program called Slimserver which is open source and ported to a couple O/S's. The Slimserver runs a ethernet driven communication with the Squeezebox and serves up the files for the SB to churn into SP/DIF.