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Squeezebox Touch Superior To Foobar2000 Wasapi?

post #1 of 5
1/25/12 at 2:13pm
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can anyone confirm this?   I  have heard that the Touch does bit perfect playback and will sound superior to optimized fooobar2000.   Can someone confirm this for me?  Otherwise I might go straight to auraliti!

 

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-Maximilian

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post #2 of 5
1/25/12 at 2:22pm

This question is a little too ambiguous. Technically since they are both outputting bitperfect, the playback quality will mostly depend on the quality of the DAC/soundcard. 

 

FooBar2000 is just software, so output depends on your computer's hardware.

 

With the Touch you can either use the built in DAC or supply one of your own.

 

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post #3 of 5
1/25/12 at 4:14pm
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Originally Posted by francisdemarte View Post

This question is a little too ambiguous. Technically since they are both outputting bitperfect, the playback quality will mostly depend on the quality of the DAC/soundcard. 

 


Fair enough.    In that case, for the sake of my computers health and not needing it alive 24/7 I will go with the squeeze box.   Next thing for me to choose then is a DAC/Pre AMP/ Head Amp  unit(s)  that will allow balanced output to balanced xlr headphones.

 

On headroom they talk about how after headphones the source is the most important upgrade.   In this case the touch is the player and the HDD is the Source?  or Is the Touch the Source?   Either way does the Drive quality/type/Connection have much effect?

 

Cheers!

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post #4 of 5
1/26/12 at 9:47am

By source they mean DAC. The drive quality and network connection has absolutely no effect on audio reproduction: as long as the data gets to the Squeezebox, it doesn't really care. 

 

The output has also been measured as low jitter, which gets rid of the one flimsy excuse people hide behind for all these supposed giant differences between sources.

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post #5 of 5
1/26/12 at 9:17pm

The network quality does kinda come into play if your running the squeezebox wirelessly, a weak connection can cause studdering.

 

You can use the Squeezebox as a stand alone player with memory cards or a external hard drive, but I think it works best with a server, especially if you have a huge music collection.

 

I don't have golden ears but personally I think Foobar and the Squeezebox sound the same when they are connected to the same external DAC.

 

 

 

 

 

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