On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:06:06 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

I don't have any experience with 'streamers' of that kind. I just play
or record on the basis that the player or recorder read or write the
file. Given that I *assume* the flac file is read by the N-50 and that's
what turns it into LPCM or whatever to output the eventual analogue
signals. On that basis it looks like the N-50 is scaling flac and wave
differently.

Well, you could be right about that. FWIW, I have to set *very*
different volume levels when I'm playing internet radio via the N-50
compared to streaming from the hard disk via minidlna.

On a completely different matter, I note that you put streamers in
quotes. I've always thought that using a dlna server was 'streaming' and
that doing anything else was 'playing'. Am I right that there's been a
takeover of the term 'streaming' by the wider community that does not use
dlna? IMHO Software players 'play'. But, then, nowadays, nothing seems
to matter :-)

- Richard.