My receiver's hooked to a 10/100 Mbit switch, which are pretty cheap now, and the server's on 100 Mbit, so I doubt I'd overload my network, even if I played all 4 at once.

I tried comparing the receiver to a CD-Player of the same track. They synced pretty easily so it was easy to switch them back & forth. At 128K, there was a noticable difference. I wouldn't rule out the encoder (older MusicMatch), but it bothered me.

I just retried the test, and couldn't hear an obvious difference, but (A) I used different music and (B) I used worse speakers.

I'd love to be able to play the raw .wav's just to do a better test, even if that's not normally how I'd store them.

- Shawn