On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:35 -0700, Andrew L.Weekes wrote: > I'm not stating either side is right here, but there ARE perfectly valid > engineering reasons why lossless compression and uncompressed playback > -could- sound slightly different.
Throw in enough "possibly" and "theoretically" and I'm with you. In practice, you would have to balance the increased network traffic and CPU needed to handle twice as much TCP/IP traffic, error processing, retransmissions, etc. against the smaller data used sending flac. This probably also clanks more memory, making the memory controller work harder, etc. I haven't looked at the internals of ACC, WMA, MLP or other closed systems (as if I could) but flac was specifically designed to be efficient to decompress on minimal systems like pocket music players, etc. So I believe that you would need a lot of "potential" hand waving before you could prove the case. BTW, I think this really goes in the server-side versus player decoding thread rather than this one, about global flac goodness. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
