Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Jochen Schulz on 21/07/08 06:35, wrote:
> Nick Lidakis:
> > I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server  
> > since early last year for my dedicated listening room. There were  
> > several ready to go retail (Sonos, Slim Devices, McIntosh, etc.)  
>
> I don't know whether it suits audiophile needs, but this is my setup:
>
> - Roku Soundbridge hooked via coax to my hifi system and to my LAN
>
> - mt-daapd a.k.a Firefly running on my home server, serving FLAC, Vorbis
>   and MP3 files. Everything but MP3 will be streamed as WAV to the
>   Soundbridge because it cannot decode it itself.
>
> Unfortunately, the Soundbridge always resamples everything it plays to
> 20Bit / 48kHz. But I cannot claim to hear any difference because of
> this.

I use mt-daapd but it snips the last 2 seconds off the end of every song. Never 
looked into it because I mainly play music direct from the box where the songs are.

What does the Soundbridge do? I can't figure it out looking at it on amazon. I 
feed the audio output from the audio card on my PC direct into the hifi. So 
what's the extra hardware for?


Regards
Adam