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squeezebox set up for audiophiles
After researching a bit and reading up on the forum, I would like to set up my squeezebox touch as follows and any input, criticism, guidance, etc to help all of us get on the right path would help. I...
How much money do you intend to spend into the ecosystem on the server side? Did you consider that the Squeezebox Touch is the weak link in your setup? Judging from what you are willing to spend on cables alone should be enough to fund a high end client which will actually improve your setup, e.g. Linn (http://www.linn.co.uk/) or Naim (http://www.naimaudio.com/). If you really want to stick to the the slim devices, at least go for the Transporter.
No matter what you do on the streaming server side, all bits will arrive at your client without any loss ('bit perfect') and each and every client will buffer the incoming data stream, so there is no introduction of jitter as well by the server. Actually jitter is the only source of quality loss when streaming is compared to a "perfect" signal and the exchange of a power cable on the server side is pure voodoo - there is no noise in a digital signal, spending hundreds of dollars on a Kimber will not help, much less the power socket. There is only one element which might introduce jitter to the stream and that is your streaming client and its connection to the D/A converter, those are the elements you need to check carefully, some clients put high effort into preventing a signal stream to be polluted by jitter. The amount of jitter created by a simple Squeezebox Touch or Duet is not even close to the level of some of the high end client solutions, so no matter what you do to your servers, the result will always be below the quality of what you get from the (really nice) Ayre.
Kind regards,
Frank
BTW, I would call my setup including the B&W 502D fronts powered by an Audionet chain not too bad... and I am absolutely happy with my Squeezebox Server software running on a ReadyNAS Ultra connected using the packaged, cheap power cables.
No matter what you do on the streaming server side, all bits will arrive at your client without any loss ('bit perfect') and each and every client will buffer the incoming data stream, so there is no introduction of jitter as well by the server. Actually jitter is the only source of quality loss when streaming is compared to a "perfect" signal and the exchange of a power cable on the server side is pure voodoo - there is no noise in a digital signal, spending hundreds of dollars on a Kimber will not help, much less the power socket. There is only one element which might introduce jitter to the stream and that is your streaming client and its connection to the D/A converter, those are the elements you need to check carefully, some clients put high effort into preventing a signal stream to be polluted by jitter. The amount of jitter created by a simple Squeezebox Touch or Duet is not even close to the level of some of the high end client solutions, so no matter what you do to your servers, the result will always be below the quality of what you get from the (really nice) Ayre.
Kind regards,
Frank
BTW, I would call my setup including the B&W 502D fronts powered by an Audionet chain not too bad... and I am absolutely happy with my Squeezebox Server software running on a ReadyNAS Ultra connected using the packaged, cheap power cables.
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