Originally posted by Plasmatico:
I am interested in hearing back from George how you like the SB3. Some have said it's OK, but not for "critical" listening - mind is been ages since I've sit down to do any "critial" listening. We are all in the same camp, I ripped all my music AIFF because that's waht Jerry suggested and it truly is quite good - maybe Apple Lossless would better?
The SB3 is a good cheap alternative, I don't know much about the ReQuest, the other alternative is a Mac Mini w/ an external HDD, but it only has a headphones output and I am not sure how good that would sound into a 861.
Moving in this direction makes me feel our expensive kit may be overkill. I mean $50-$100K and the source is a $500 computer?!?!?
HNY!!!!
I hear ya. I ripped some DTS CD's and they play flawless. This tells me that the whole path from the CD pits to the 861 decoder is unaltered.
It's very difficult getting past the idea that an inexpensive source can do as well as a high end spindal. Do your own double blind tests.
When I put the Alan Parsons DTS CD in, I was amazed how bad the first track sounded in the rears (been a lone time since I listened to it sounds like he is talking into a pillow). At first I thought Oh crap what have I done. Then I popped in the disk into the PS3 and all I got was digital noise. Yikes. Then I realized I had turned on 48khz upsamling in the PS3. Oops. I put it back to 44.1 and then compared. The PS3 sounded exactly the same as the SB3. And I had carefully compared the PS3, Panasonic BD and 598 on DVD-A, DTS and CD (they all sounded the same). So SB3 just adds to the list.
One other point, based on the opening topic. How often do you REALLY critically get to listen? The only time I ever do is when evaluating components !!! I turn on the music and go eat breakfast in the OTHER room. Now I can listen to my whole library (and not have to sit through bogus tracks).
Please continue this in the Music Server Sticky thread.
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