Logitech Squeezebox sound compared to CD Player

I highly recommend installing SoundCheck's software mod and his recommendation of using a linear power supply and ethernet cable. His mod disables the wireless which aides in improving the sound. On his blog, he a has very detailed step by step instructions on how to install. Take no longer than 10-20min to get installed.

The veiled sound people say is the stock sound. The SoundCheck software mod and disabling wireless gets rid of the veiled sound. There is still debate about the linear power supply. In my system, it made a difference. I was getting clicking sounds from the switching power supply that came with the SBT.

Even after the mods are installed, you can still tweak to your liking such as the buffer and SPDIF process priority. If you read the Logitech SBT forum, there are some good suggestions. Again, in my system, just changing the buffer value from 3400 to 4000 made the mid-range fill more solid (3D) and more warmth and texture to the instruments. The default 3400 made my system very smooth silky like, but lost a little dynamics. Sorry for rambling, but as you can tell, there is a lot of flexibility in the SBT software & hardware. For the value and the convenience of being able to scan your entire library at your fingertips, you can't beat it.

My sound with sb touch is not veiled and I use wireless. Wireless should have no effect on sound quality. What is the reasoning behind claims that wireless is veiled?

Mapman,

It may not sound veiled at first, but once you apply SoundCheck's mod that disables wireless you will discover how more transparent and detailed the sound gets. Veiled may not be the correct term to use if you are using wireless but you will know what I mean once you try the software mod. From what I understand from SoundCheck's philosophy, you improve the sound quality by having less services running. Believe me, I was skeptical at first being a developer, but his mods do make a difference. With his mods, you can disable and enable each of the mods to make your own conclusion on what best suits your system and ears.

To get around using the SBT wireless since I didn't want to wire the house with long run ethernet cable, I bought a bridge/ethernet to wireless adapter from Netgear. Even though I'm running wireless, the SBT touch doesn't have to run it's wireless service and turn on it's internal wifi radio that could interfere with the inner workings.

Here is the url to his blog so you can read up on his mod and philosophy. http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/

Most of the info on that blob appears to be pure conjecture.

Could not find anything that discounted wireless.

The things I read that might make a predictable difference is choice of ic out, and nothing shocking there and maybe power supply but I would not expect much difference from that.

wireless has nothing to do with it imho. many of us get outstanding results wireless. bits be bits right? LOL!

once again, it's all about what you're using and how it's put together. set-up is what it boils down to. that being said.... seems like the obvious and most logical way to improve an inexpensive digital front is by upgrading the dac. it's almost like the situation with the ipod and the dac bypass docs available (wadia ect..). upgrading the dac processing makes a world of difference when compared to the on-board dac in the ipod (uncompressed downloads or similar).

cheers