Sound quality

[Melco Man]

(28-12-2016 14:32)DavidHB Wrote:  

(28-12-2016 12:08)Melco Man Wrote:  I understand that Minimserver does actually improve the sound quality of the music. This is because it uses way less CPU and is much more efficient than other systems such as Twonky.

I don't recall that Simon ever claimed this, and it is difficult to think of a mechanism by which a difference of this kind can have an effect on the analogue signal path via the renderer and the DAC.

What Simon has reported is that transcoding files (particularly to WAV24) using MinimStreamer can have a small but noticeable beneficial effect on sound quality. My own experience confirms this.

David

Fair enough. My knowledge of such things is too limited to argue.