Blackstone
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Blackstone,
Gotcha on all accounts.
I also use the Squeezebox3, but am inputing to a PS Audio Digital Link DAC III... I'm going to do a search on your particular Delius. The Squeezebox3 is ok... but I think that I'm moving to a Sonos.
Thanks!
Yes, but is your dad going to allow you to do such a thing?
The best thing is playing Gears of War or Fight Night 3 on the 360 through my system... such a rush!!
My dad doesn't have an HDTV in that room so there is really no point. Also, I don't live with with my folks during the year. I'm also going to be graduating law school soon, so hopefully I'll be able to make some upgrades of my own in the near future, although it will be some time before I plunk down the kind of cash involved in buying a DCS stack
Just to be clear, the Delius is the DAC, and the Purcell is a separate upsampler. You can use the Purcell with any DAC that can handle DSD (SACD), or 24/96 or whatever.
As for the Squeezebox, it is awesome. After we tried it with our setup we sold our high-end CD transport. The CD transport was slightly better but the convenience of the squeezebox offset the difference. My understanding is that if you aren't using the DAC on the squeezebox, (we sure don't) it really doesn't matter if you are using Squeezebox or Sonos or whatever, as it is just a means of transmitting the music files to your DAC, or in our case, to the Purcell upsampler and then to the DAC. In other words, we just use the digital out on the Squeezebox. I don't even know what the squeezebox DAC sounds like. Sonos has a fancier interface but I doubt there is much difference in sound quality if you are just using the digital out.
In some ways, the Squeezebox sounds better because using the Wi-Fi eliminates the mechanical noise associated with a moving CD transport. Wi-Fi audio is definitely the future.