Sound quality comparison

[simoncn]

(24-08-2014 22:26)krutsch Wrote:  +1 ... I have a Denon DNP-720AE and I have experienced the same result.

The last F/W update for the Denon player introduced a defect in their FLAC decoder (hissing sound between tracks), which is what brought me to MinimServer in the first place - transcoding to WAV, which fixed the playback issues for my system. I am quite surprised how much better sounding WAV24 is over the original files.

BTW, how do I also transcode AAC or MP3 tracks? I've tried adding aac:wav24 or mp3:wav24, but to no effect.

This should work. In the latest version of MinimStreamer, the settings are:

aac:wav24 to transcode ADTS files (.aac)
mp4:wav24 to transcode MPEG/AAC files (.mp4 and .m4a)
mp3:wav24 to transcode MP3 files (.mp3)

For all these, the stream.converter property must be set. If it isn't set, MinimStreamer will report an error when you add the transcoding setting.

After changing transcoding settings, you might need to restart MinimServer and/or the control point to clear previously cached information in the control point.

I have found that transcoding 320 kbps AAC improves sound quality and transcoding MP3 makes sound quality slightly worse.