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In Reply to: More applause for the Wired 4 Sound modified Sonos Connect posted by raingerz on October 28, 2015 at 21:17:09:
But I did not trial the Wyred4Sound modified SONOS Connect but DID trial the Remedy S/PDIF re-clocker.
And no, I didn't hear much improvement with either the OPPO HA-1 DAC/Headphone amp or with my MArantz NA-7004 when using the Remedy Re-Clocker on the output of the SONOS Connect. Would the fully modded SONOS Connect be a better solution? Might well be. Would a better DAC make a difference? Some would say yes. Will the SONOS Connect become my main streaming source? Not likely but not because of sound quality.
Most if not all of my streaming is Lossless FLAC over the internet. I have a 20Mbps ISP service from ATT U-Verse which is MORE than fast enough to stream Lossless FLAC. That is if the 20Mbps is a constant 20Mbps and without any starts and stops. And even with starts and stops, streaming Lossless FLAC to a player app in say a laptop will work great as you can set a rather large cache size, the track will load quickly into the cache, on some players you can even watch it load, about 30 seconds to load a 5 min track, and if now and then there is a stop then a start in the stream, you can see it but it's no problem, because you already have minutes worth of play loaded in the cache and your average loading speed is WAY faster than the playback.
The SONOS System has little or not cache in their various players. As a result, I get LOTS of drop-outs streaming Lossless FLAC through both my kitchen SONOS speaker and the SONOS Connect even though they are now hooked up via ethernet. This happens a lot in the evenings when everyone in the world is ether downloading movies from NetFlicks or watching porn.
I'm sure if I switched providers and went with COMCAST with even faster speed I could get around the problem but for now I stream using a computer where the apps of the various streaming services all allow you to configure a large cache to play from.
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