Originally Posted by Ronomy
Originally Posted by George Mills
dBpoweramp, buy the reference version. It's cheap.

All lossless formats sound the same, if someone tells you differnt ask what they have been smoking.

I clearly hear a difference decoding FLAC in my PC as apposed to in my Squeezebox 3. Not that decoding in the SB3 sounds bad(still sounds smooth) it's just more detailed, clearer highs, bigger soundstage and better detailed bass decoding in the PC and streaming PCM direct to the SB. It sounds much closer to the CD playing back in my 598 when decoded in the PC.

Ron

Ron,

I was thinking of simpler way to compare this rather than futzing with SqueezeCenter settings and verifying exactly what is happening. Just unpack the FLAC files to WAV in the same folder then you can browse to the folder (directly) and every other song will be decoded by the SqueezeBox and you can instantaniously compare. For that matter you could put every format in the same folder and zip right through them with no reconfiguring.

By the way you can chat with the designer/cofounder of slimdevices over on the slimdevices forum and he is a really straight shooter and topics like this come up all the time.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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