I use a Wyred4Sound Remedy into a DAC (W4S DAC2) and it sounds great... this is is from a Sonos Connect as source. Relaxed sound w/ decent imaging. Upgrading the DAC is the next step.
better sound from sonos connect
Just went from a bose bluetooth receiver to a sonos connect for my outdoor speaker setup (4 niles rs8si around my pool driven by a niles si-2150 amp, 2 def tech aw6500's on the house straight off my old yamaha rx-v671, and 2 niles gss10 in ground subs on a niles swa-500) Currently I have the def techs running off of the head unit, and have been lined out into the niles amps with a volume knob at the pool 100 ft from the house. Wiring is all 12 to 2 months old (recently went from 2 straight from the yamaha, to adding the amp and remote volume attenuator and going with 4 speakers, because more is better.)
The def techs seem to sound fine running rca's out of the connect.
The 4 niles rock speakers sound like crap, muddy bass, just absolutely sloppy, I thought I blew them until I tried running RCA's straight off a tablet into the amp and everything cleaned back up, I had better results with regular FM radio as well.
For some reason I've tried running optical into the yamaha receiver, which runs the def techs fine, but I can't get it to pass the audio out. Reading up on the receiver, it seems it doesn't pass through the digital to analog.
My thoughts are do I need a stand alone DAC to get a cleaner signal since the anaolg signal pretty much sucks from the sonos? The logitech and bose bluetooth receivers I ran previously were much cleaner and tighter running rca out.
Obviously we're talking outdoor speakers, I don't need ridiculous quality given its the hardest environment to make function well, but the pool speakers honestly sound like crap and its driving me nuts.
The def techs seem to sound fine running rca's out of the connect.
The 4 niles rock speakers sound like crap, muddy bass, just absolutely sloppy, I thought I blew them until I tried running RCA's straight off a tablet into the amp and everything cleaned back up, I had better results with regular FM radio as well.
For some reason I've tried running optical into the yamaha receiver, which runs the def techs fine, but I can't get it to pass the audio out. Reading up on the receiver, it seems it doesn't pass through the digital to analog.
My thoughts are do I need a stand alone DAC to get a cleaner signal since the anaolg signal pretty much sucks from the sonos? The logitech and bose bluetooth receivers I ran previously were much cleaner and tighter running rca out.
Obviously we're talking outdoor speakers, I don't need ridiculous quality given its the hardest environment to make function well, but the pool speakers honestly sound like crap and its driving me nuts.