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I've been reading a lot about the Squeezebox2 around here and now 2 companies are modifying them here on AC... Can someone comment as to why streaming audio would be better or worse than a hard drive in a PC being used as a transport? Quite often people talk about getting a music server in another room... and then pulling the data off the network... and/or using a wireless router to send the music to the other room. In this case, sending audio bits across long wires, through the air, or whatever... ...
Jitter significance in audio gear is massively over-hyped, by any reasonable scientific standard.
Check out one of www.empiricalaudio.com USB converters. I'm using one and find the sound quality unmatched.
What was your method of flac'ing, Tim? Have you done any side-by-side comparisons of FLAC to WAV? I don't know why the audible difference exists but it does. Even my tin-eared wife could hear the difference. (sorry to use a cliche' but it's true)-C
FLACs are by definition, lossless. This means that the contents of a FLAC are bit-identical to that of the WAV file used to create the FLAC. The is an indisputable reality. This can easily be validated, by extracting the contents of the FLAC to a WAV and comparing the binary file contents. It is as absurd to argue that a FLAC sounds different than a WAV file as it is to contend that the earth is square.
Quote from: gongosCheck out one of www.empiricalaudio.com USB converters. I'm using one and find the sound quality unmatched.What has it been matched to? What's your setup, what have you tried and found to work best for you? What specifically do you like about the sound you're getting now?
(edited because I realized the 2nd post was from someone else)I understand what you're saying... However, I wasn't trying to be argumentative when I asked for better methods to produce flac files or whether anyone had compared flac vs. wav.... I'm genuinely interested in trying again... and maybe using a better method/software to produce the flac. I do not claim to be an expert in this field, in fact, I'm trying to learn something... Have you tried it? What are your methods? Anyone e ...
Here are my recommendations:Use EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) to rip your CDs, using the secure mode settings described at Ubernet (http://www.ubernet.org/). You will be virtually guaranteed of generating bit-perfect copies of your CDs to your PC hard disk. I recommend encoding to FLACs, to save space, allow detailed tagging and to allow archiving of exact copies of the original CD contents. Even though compressed formats, such as MP3s can sound quite excellent, when using the right encoder ( ...