MinimServer and Simaudio Moon

[magister]

(14-08-2013 20:29)baconbrain Wrote:  How many network components do you have between your NAS and the mind?

In my audio rack resides an Apple Airport Extreme (used only as a switch and source of wi-fi), connected to an ethernet connection from the wall; the other three plugs are used for my NAS, my DAC, and the MiND. Nice short cables to everything My first NAS, a Synology DS112j, had a minute amount of memory and a slow processor and couldn't transcode files above 24/96 well. Moving up a couple of steps in the Synology line (DS213) solved the problem.

Quote:Btw., it might be my imagination but aftering setting the transcode to wav24, my 16/44 flac files sound considerably better.

You're not the only one. As Simon says, some people definitely hear a difference and some don't. In my case the difference is modest but I leave wav24 on since it does seem to be an improvement.