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I've a bucketload of music in FLAC format on my server which I've been listening to mainly on a Squeezebox Duet outputting to a good amp and speakers. If I take the music from the server to a PC then out to the amp will there be any theoretical differences in sound quality? The output from the PC and Squeezebox is optical in both cases.
As soon as a digital stream leaves any device, it's down to the DAC that sits between it and your speakers.
That's what I was thinking. So the DAC will be the one in the amp? This is where I get confused as I know there's one in the Squeezebox too. Is that to deal with any analogue output? Or will it process the data in some way before sending it onto the amp?
Yup. Anything that takes a digital streamand plays it through a speaker has a DAC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluecube
It shouldn't alter the stream in any way unless it has the ability to tweak values (like bass, treble and so on) which you should probably do at the amp. Otherwise you end up decoding the stream, altering it, re-encoding it, passing it to the amp, which then decodes it. Not great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluecube