I'm with SNS. Tried G91, 598, PS3, SqueezeBox into 861V4 and DSP5500's. I've even collected the data at the speaker and compared it with different sources. It's all the same data going to the speakers. The only thing I didn't check is timing (i.e. jitter). The 861 and the DSP Speakers both dejitter. If the 861 can't dejitter it you'll know it and would require turning off the dejitter circuit (i.e. poor digital source). How much a super transport (improved jitter) can help on top of that arguably requires super human hearing which, I have come to the conclusion, I was not gifted with :-(.

If you really do hear a drop in quality with the Sonos I'd do some digging as to why. A quick sanity check is testing with a DTS RIP.

Last edited by George Mills; 2007-09-13 03:48.
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