Quote Originally Posted by recoveryone
This is why I pulled your quote, In my first post my comment was just in general, then you jumped in with this (above) So if you would have said with a external DAC DECENT sound could be achieved, you would have been consisted in your position, but you did not. So if anyone would read your postings from the other thread, they would conclude that the SB has weak DAC's and an external DAC is needed to just achieve a DECENT listening sound. Did I miss read that or what?????
My "Jumping in" did not require nor justify your quote in any manner... What I said stands: AFAIK no one on AR has denied the use of the Squeezebox for critical listening... There are loads of fans of it here... So the only reason to quote me is to claim that I am one of the persons who would not use the Squeezebox for critical listening... Which makes no sense to anyone, since I've used one in combination with my DAC1 for that purpose for over 3 years!

Compared to my $1K Benchmark, the Squeezebox internal DAC is weak... What is your issue?

Since DECENT is relative, I don't see what there is to argue on that... Would you prefer I say to achieve GREAT sound, use an external DAC? But that would imply that my DAC1 sounds GREAT... If I remember my reasoning (from that thread you so quickly referenced from MONTHS ago) I used DECENT rather than GREAT as GREAT sounds arrogant and over-hypes the DAC1... But since you feel offended by the word DECENT for some reason, feel free to substitute whatever word you like...

However, no choice of wording you like will change my opinion that the Squeezebox doesn't sound as good as my DAC1/other more expensive units... It's fine for $300, but it won't cut it in higher quality setups (unless you add an external DAC)...

So we can waste more time arguing about lord alone know what, or just move on and let the OP's thread get back on track... Especially since in your first post here you admitted to having nothing to add anyway...