Roku SoundBridge vs. SqueezBox3

All,

Thankyou for your responses. Even the Terrat who missed that I was connectiong via ethernet (cable) to the soundbridge.

I have had the soundbridge for 2 days now on loan from my favorite dealer. It works with MusicMatch 8.2 if you are using mp3 files but not .wav files.

I uploaded windows media connect and now it will stream .wav files. But there is a problem with .wav files in thay are not tagged with Artist or Album so the only way to search or browse is by song. This is not optimum.

My first impressions taking the spdif out to a DAC is that it is at least as good as my transport. One one track the sound stage seemed to be wider with more localization of the instruments. As far as tone quality I will not say that there is any difference at this point but it is so close that I need to do more listening.

Michael

Ok,

I finally downloaded Itunes at Roku's suggestion. It does everything right. I like the way Itunes saves the song lists vs other players. I can now browse and search .wav files by artist, album, song and playlist on the soundbridge.

Itunes will copy to .wav files with error corection and play them through the soundbridge.

As far as quality, I can't tell the difference between my transport and what is streamed from the computer as long as I am going through my DAC. Analog is another story :(.

The only issue I am having now is that some times Itunes and the SoundBridge loose the network connection. I am still troubleshooting this issue.

Last of all but not least I did purchase the SoundBridge as I am very satisfied with the sound quality.