RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch

Posted by soundchekk (A) on June 11, 2012 at 01:06:02

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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Topic - Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - Dynobot 10:01:33 06/09/12 (24)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - soundchekk 01:06:02 06/11/12 (0)

Squeezeplay -- SqueezeOS - John Swenson 16:39:59 06/09/12 (4)

RE: Squeezeplay -- SqueezeOS - Dynobot 16:48:27 06/09/12 (3)

RE: Squeezeplay -- SqueezeOS - John Swenson 12:17:35 06/13/12 (2)

RE: Squeezeplay -- SqueezeOS - SBGK 11:48:19 06/14/12 (0)

RE: Squeezeplay -- SqueezeOS - jrling 03:03:13 06/14/12 (0)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - cfraser 14:23:25 06/09/12 (4)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - SBGK 02:55:04 06/10/12 (3)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - cfraser 11:55:40 06/10/12 (2)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - SBGK 12:34:28 06/10/12 (1)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - cfraser 12:59:56 06/10/12 (0)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - 4season 11:52:04 06/09/12 (0)

RE: Thinking Outside the Box - SB - Touch - phofman 11:49:54 06/09/12 (11)

Squeezeplay - mls-stl 13:36:08 06/09/12 (10)

Cool I have to try that...thanks!..nt - Dynobot 14:29:12 06/09/12 (8)

But... it's not the Touch software - J.Mac 14:56:07 06/09/12 (7)

Thats what I was thinking - Dynobot 15:19:22 06/09/12 (6)

RE: Thats what I was thinking - mls-stl 18:28:22 06/09/12 (2)

RE: Thats what I was thinking - Dynobot 17:44:14 06/10/12 (1)

RE: Thats what I was thinking - mls-stl 19:35:01 06/10/12 (0)

RE: Thats what I was thinking - J.Mac 15:37:11 06/09/12 (0)

RE: Thats what I was thinking - phofman 15:33:51 06/09/12 (1)

RE: Thats what I was thinking - Dynobot 15:38:20 06/09/12 (0)

RE: Squeezeplay - SBGK 13:48:27 06/09/12 (0)

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