Experiences with SlimDevices Squeezebox.

I found the hardwired connection to be better than the WiFi - it sounded like less jitter

If you are using a laptop try streaming to the squeezebox on battery power. Also Apple lossless files sound very good and less prone to dropouts in my wireless network.

Haven't tried Apple Lossless files yet...but will. I'm running my squeezebox off of the 5V output of a B&K Linear power supply. I think I hear improvement, but haven't done careful blind testing yet.

Anybody out there modified their squeezebox yet??

harry

"Jitter" as a concept does not apply to digital bitstream read from a hard disk file. It was something that applied to Audio CDs but once you rip the file to a wav or FLAC it's "frozen in time." Every time you play it back in a pure digital passthrough mode from your computer, as it leaves the pc it is an exact duplication of the bitstream read from your CD at the time you read it.
That's not to say that this has no jitter, it just has the exact jitter at the time of the rip, ever time. This is assuming you have a clean digital line to your outboard DAC / Pre-pro / Receiver / whatever.

For those interested...here's a great discussion about jitter:

http://www.digido.com/portal/pmodule_id=11/pmdmode=fullscreen/pageadder_page_id=28