In Reply to: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch posted by Dynobot on June 9, 2012 at 10:01:33:
The Touch pretty much is that kind of HW which IMO challenges a CMP2 setup. CMP2 many people regard as kind of reference setup.
The CMP2 guys try to strip a normal PC down since years to achieve a HW-level comparable to a Touch. Why should I switch to a normal PC??
The Touch comes at a fragment of cost. And today even USB works quite well.
I tried Squeezeslave and Squeezeplay as well as mpd and pretty much all the other players out there on a PC under Windows and realtime Linux. ( As you know that's what I did first in the early days)
I also tried Squeezeslave (the arm version) instead fo Squeezeplay on the Touch btw.
IMO all streaming clients suffer a major problem compared to audiophile players.
Flac offline decoding and RAM playback is not part of the feature list.
That'll give you a hard time to beat a top level audiophile player.
Even server based decoding on a streaming system is not solving the realtime flac decoding issue. WAV still sounds better.
I think it is better to look for a better audio interface, instead of trying to fix the PC/transport setup.
Hint: Have a look at Vortexbox/Vortexboxplayer and their forum. Over there you'll find instructions of to setup squeezplay/squeezeslave asf.
Good luck.
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