Sound differences

[simoncn]

(05-02-2013 16:42)Alekz Wrote:  Even more interesting. Different servers (the software that is) sound differently. (See http://www.psaudio.com/vanilla/discussio...an-psa-emm)

So far (almost?) everybody who tried both PS Audio eLyrics Music Manager (EMM) and MinimServer found that Minim sounds brighter than EMM. It's neither bad not good, but the difference is there and can be clearly heard.

Also no technical explanation.

The "usual suspects" are: buffering, flow control and conversion methods. For example, the sound quality depends on the server load, that might affect the flow. There is even a new term for that: "software jitter".

In the MinimServer vs. EMM comparisons where MinimServer sounded "brighter", was MinimServer doing wav24 transcoding? Was EMM also doing 24-bit WAV transcoding?

Does the same "brightness" difference apply when comparing MinimServer streaming native FLAC and EMM streaming native FLAC?