MusicMonkey Wrote: > Has anybody noticed a sound quality difference between playing WAV vs. > FLAC files on the SqueezeBox3? > > I'm wondering if it's possible that there's a slightly fuller, more > clean and open sound from playing WAVs directly through the Squeezebox. > Of course, theoretically there should be no difference at all, hence my > question to this forum. > > My setup: I tried decoding my FLACs into WAV and playing both through > the SqueezeBox to compare. There's absolutely no replay-gain, no > equalization, normalization etc. on the FLACs - everything was > originally ripped from CD to WAV using EAC, and then compressed to FLAC > using Flac v1.2. The FLACs, when uncompressed, yield bit-for-bit the > identical WAVs that were originally ripped from CD. > > What are people experiencing? Is it all psychological or is there in > fact something slightly different in the sound quality?
FLAC would have to be decompressed on the SB, but that isn't a very big job. Nevertheless I guess the extra processing might subtly influence sound quality. (By causing more electrical noise.) Is there any way to transcode FLAC to WAV on the server side, and see what result you get? (I haven't looked much into transcoding. A friend has lossless WMA on the server, and Slimserver transcodes to WAV. He is very happy with the sound quality.) -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20995 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
