Releasing sKit-custom-squeezelite.sh 1.4 for test

I just uploaded a seriously modified version 1.4 of sKit-custom-squeezelite.sh

(UPDATE Nov-12-21 - I uploaded 1.4.2-beta. It comes with a few minor corrections, slightly enhanced stability and traceability)

squeezelite - update - flac processing improvement

 Hi there.

Just recently a small - potentially interesting - performance enhancement for flac processing had been introduced.
Those of you who run sKit and a (my) custom squeezelite binary should update the binary.

I did update my own squeezelite branch on github accordingly.

I havn't tested what the update does - performance and soundwise - though.

If you run the update and experience some improvement - please let me/us know.


Enjoy.



The audiophile power of Youtube

Did you ever realize that you can easily discern sound quality differences on most of these numerous audiophile a/b device comparisons over @




introducing sKit 1.5

Hi there.

I uploaded a new version (1.5.) of sKit.

Full Digital Amp News

In 2012 I wrote an article about Full Digital Amps. I just updated it a little.  That's one part of the news.

During those days I was trying and tweaking several of these FDAs. I really liked the technology and the idea behind it. And they sounded extremely clean and dynamic already back then. IMO cleaner and more dynamic then most DAC-amp combos I had listened to. In the article I describe what I didn't like and why I left that idea alone. Just to mention it: It was mainly due to the mediocre digital pre-stages of these amps. These amps also need top notch USB receivers, filters, clocks, DSP/SRC, power supplies, regulation, layouts, isolation etc. During those days that's IMO been a major weak spot. 

I still kept watching for developments. Not much was happening over the years.