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In Reply to: Most important component for a music server system posted by bryan on November 2, 2009 at 16:38:44:
For a networked player such as the Squeezebox, the server hardware matters little or not at all toward sound quality, as long as it can keep the player's buffers full enough not to have dropouts in the playback.
In a system using an internal sound card, the computer hardware and software matter the most. In this setup, the computer is the playback component, so many or all aspects of its electronics may play a part in sound quality.
For a system feeding an external S/PDIF, USB or Firewire DAC, the hardware within the computer connected to the DAC matters less. The DAC is mostly externalized, so it is somewhat isolated from the computer.
If you don't want to worry about tweaking computer hardware and optimizing software, it isn't hard to make a selection from the above. On the other hand, if you want the opportunity to play with a virtually infinite number of variables in the system, that's also an easy choice.
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Follow Ups
- Depends on the type of system - J.Mac 11/3/0901:22:14 11/3/09 (1)
- RE: also Depends on the interface used - cfmsp 07:45:45 11/3/09 (0)
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