Transcoding combinations UPnP and Internet Radio

[simoncn]

(14-03-2015 18:34)Pastim Wrote:  My flacs, and any aac or mp3s I might have get the best treatment my renderers can handle, streams of unknown codec ditto, aac and mp3 streams can be received both by UPnP and Internet Radio.

Have you compared the sound of playing mp3 directly into the renderer with the sound of transcoding mp3 to L16 or wav24 in MinimStreamer? I did this and I was surprised that direct mp3 sounded slightly better on my Linn DS. For FLAC and AAC, the transcoded wav24 stream sounded better.