7520 with a SB3?

[Spur07]

"I'm actually amazed at the small choice of streaming devices , its time they did ones with 24/192 capable outputs"


couldn't agree more.


forget dacs, this is where the real action will take place and its anybody's guess as to what's going to happen. due to circumstance i'll probably be streaming from my G5 for a good few years to come, so i'll be upgrading my amps/dac for now - but i'm intrigued to see where the transport/streaming technology will go, and who's going to emerge as the big players.

The thing that bothers me most regarding transport/streamers is, just like dacs at the moment, it's going to be incredibly difficult to compare and contrast set ups. i've got a feeling its going to be a long time before retailers catch up on all this and start catering for the likes of you and me.

[Quietschbox]

"The only real main limitation of a SB3 stock or modded is that it cannot supply an external dac higher than 24/48 where as the Transporter can do 24/96"

I can't find the passage now, and also it didnt tell how to, but there was a thread, maybe http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19822,
mentioning some advanced geeks were able to stop the SB 3 from halving 24/96 down to 24/48 on the digital outs, thus delivering full 96khz.
Haven't dug further into that yet, but since the SB primitively drops every second sample from 96, it seems there indeed could be a way to stop it from doing that. Possibly it was just decided this way to increase compatibility for older DACs?

[Peter314]

... since the SB primitively drops every second sample from 96...

Happily, the latest version of Squeezecenter no longer does this. It uses a more sophisticated algorithm (TITES, or something like that) which does a great job.

Would be great if SB3 could be made to output digital 24/96 though. I must check that link...

[Stratmangler]

"The only real main limitation of a SB3 stock or modded is that it cannot supply an external dac higher than 24/48 where as the Transporter can do 24/96"

I can't find the passage now, and also it didnt tell how to, but there was a thread, maybe http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19822,
mentioning some advanced geeks were able to stop the SB 3 from halving 24/96 down to 24/48 on the digital outs, thus delivering full 96khz.
Haven't dug further into that yet, but since the SB primitively drops every second sample from 96, it seems there indeed could be a way to stop it from doing that. Possibly it was just decided this way to increase compatibility for older DACs?

IIRC from what I saw on the Slim forum is that the latest beta versions of Squeezecentre can transcode 24/96 to 24/48 on the fly. Still doesn't give 24/96 from a SB3.

Chris

[Quietschbox]

"7.3.1 (latest) will do server-side proper resampling down to 48Khz, using the SoX library."
"Earlier versions passed on the data untouched and the SB3 threw away alternate samples."

Well. Found a "24/96 at non optimum way" mod/hack claim, and I may have mistaken another
statement in the context of 24/48 and 24/96, mentioning "digital mods improving output",
for a "24/96" mod statement.

Considering bit depth being more important than rate, 24/48 is not too "bad",
and using a good DAC (and rest of line) may be way more important.