squeezebox set up for audiophiles

sphardy wrote:
Also note that the thread you referred to consists of 92 pages of comments, by the end of which the original poster had resigned from the thread as he was unable to provide any verifiable proof to a community of engineers that his assertions were correct despite multiple proposals of how he could do exactly that. So no - not confusing at all

John Kenny is well known for his product: the modified hiface: http://sites.google.com/site/hifacemods/

He modified the original hiface: http://www.m2tech.biz/

Owned the hiface for a while and then bought the modified hiface. Huge improvement on the original hiface. It is a pity his voice drowned in all those comments. We had a listening session last weekend with some very serious audiophiles in two different systems and in both systems the attenuators improved the focus. Can not explain why but there was a huge improvement.

You mentioned '0' and '1' are the same in a digital signal, this opens another can of worms. :D If they are the same why do we get different sound from different digital cables / coaxial / spdif cables.

Or why would a meicord ethernet or a denon ethernet cable matter if '0' and '1' stayed the same?

Interference does matter and what the attenuators are doing is attenuating the signal. The logic being that if you attenuate the whole signal, any noise in the signal will be attenuated even more as it is usually not as loud / prominent as the primary signal. So once these are attenuated, the primary signal will be relatively noise free. However, if you attenuate it too much the DAC can not lock onto the signal.

Sorry, am not an engineer and can not explain all this to you in technical terms. However, I know what my ears are hearing. Can not explain it in technical terms but who knows one day we will meet for a listening session and I can demonstrate the differences.

But I am very happy with all the discussions as I get to learn more :D and hopefully share my experience :D