Post by garymBut this is not how the feeding of a SB player from a server actually
works. The suggestion that reducing the workload of a PC running as LMS
If I can increase the efficiency of a fueling station on the freeway, my
automobile will work better when I'm 50 miles down the road. Of course
this makes no sense. Once I've filled up my fuel tank at the station,
the station has no affect on my automobile when I'm down the road.
As noted, the only issue one could have between a server and the SB
player is if the server can't fill the buffer with new 0s/1s faster than
the SB is emptying this buffer (i.e., playing the music).
(This said, if one is using the SOUNDCARD in a PC to play music, then it
is at least theoretically possible that doing things to that PC can
affect the playback of the music. But of course the entire engineering
and design of the Squeezebox player is to remove the factor of the PC
from the playback on the player.)
Thanks Gary , you explains things better .
Deaf Cat can actually try this , play a song for a couple of minute now
pull out the Ethernet cable .
Now listen to the buffer without any computer influence .
Yes LMS server basically transfer the file to the player for playback (
Oversimplified ).
As the PC does do not do the playback it can't influence the sound
,when using a squeezebox .
In this case there simply is no plausible mechanism where the server can
influence the sound .
If you used an onboard soundcard I can think of several of them ,but
they to can be mitigated by far simpler (and free) means than this
software .
A file transferred over the whole Internet is also delivered perfectly .
These communication protocols actually works .
One of the things computers do really well is copy stuff they do perfect
copies all day .
To imply that's the data in the Squuezebox buffer would somehow been
changed basically implies that the computer has lost this basic ability
. Such a computer is milliseconds from crashing completely .
And the data do arrive in squirts and lumps all the time not in real
time (usually at far greater speed than needed if your network is ok )
TCP/IP works that way it s called ip packets and the error correction
for those are extremely good . Remember the Internet works ! You can
download a complete OS over the net without a single error .
This is asynchrounus to . Asynchronous actually means ( among many
things ) that the data is not timed in any way meaningfull to the data
.
Think of it this way . If you filled the squeezebox buffer with 30
seconds of the same file/song but by two different means ?
Could you foresically tell the difference if you by some magic "freezed"
the squeezebox copied the buffers and compared them ?
I think NSA would fail on this task . The data is just there it has no
history built in .
Also in genral this software has all the tell tales of a scam beware .
It is said that progressive people should keep an open mind , this is
all and well if you also apply common sense and some sound scepticism .
For every correct idea there is also endless incorrect ideas that compte
with it !
Thats why the idea that you should weigh " both sides " equally is
flawed the good one is simply swamped by the crackpots , most ideas
humanity ever had where/is wrong .
Just be a bit critical and demand evidence .
In the case of this software it would be very easy to test so no debate
is needed .
1. Do traditional audio measurement .
2. Do an audio diffmaker test .
If 1 or 2 sugest any difference and it's big enough to sugest it would
possible to hear, do a listening test ( abx of course ) to try to
quantify if it's audiable and what the difference is .
If this is performed it does not matter what anyone on a forum thinks
either it works or it don't .
No subjective anecdote from either acolytes or sceptical people would
have the power to change facts .
For some reason none of the aviable "magic audiophile software" vendors
will do this , they fill there websites with anecdotes instead . Despite
that it is possible to prove their products they somehow always avoid
this very powerfull product verification ?
I would,suggests that Archimago has the equipment and the vervital to
test this , but I doubt he will .
He has done similar products, so one more ?.
And by the reason I jut gave that there are endless flawed ideas for
every correct one it would be endless work to follow every weird audio
idea out there .
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