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In Reply to: RE: Sound quality - Squeezebox vs Sonos Connect - digital out posted by kh6idf on May 03, 2015 at 05:10:09
Is that really true of the SONOS Bridge?
SONOS goes to all the trouble of circumventing your home WiFi system in order to move CD quality music from your computer to the SONOS speaker system and then uses MP3 encoding to move the data?
Are you sure?
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No, I am listening to Rhapsody and Pandora which are compressed streams. Pandora is 128k mp3 and I think Rhapsody is 192 AAC. When I listen to the WAV file I ripped on my computer as a test, there is no MP3 involved. The MP3 is between the music service (Pandora for example) and the Sonos.
Spotify premium is 320kbps Ogg Vorbis while TIDAL premium is hopefully Lossless FLAC.
What happens between the SONOS Bridge and the SONOS speakers or CONNECT I can only guess.
My Connect doesn't need the bridge, it connects directly to my wireless router. And its digital output goes into a Behringer SRC2496, which feeds a DEQ2496 (contains the DAC) where it is finally converted to analog and sent to the preamp. A convoluted path, but it allows room EQ in the digital domain. All my sources (Streamer/CD/SACD/phono) get the same EQ applied by the DEQ2496 to remove room resonances (it's a small room).
if I added the Connect.No need for competition with everything else in the house that's on WiFi.
Edits: 05/03/15
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