To play Devil's advocate for a moment (and I've been converting all my CDs to FLAC, so I'm not anti-FLAC)
Here's a review of the McIntosh MS300 music server. The MS300 would certainly seem potentially to outperform the Squeezebox in all possible parameters, especially our home-brew ripping/encoding on our PCs with EAC, Flac, Itunes, or whatever.... After all, the SB3 is $300 - and I'm using an old Gateway Athlon 650 as my ripper/encoder with freeware doing the tasks. The MS300 couldn't possibly make worse FLAC copies - in all likelyhood, superior. http://ultimateavmag.com/mediaservers/1105mcintosh/index1.html Yet on page two, the reviewer claims he can definitely hear a difference between FLAC and the original CD. He said the FLAC sounds duller, flater than the original CD. I guess I really need to make some FLACS and AIFF/WAV files and do some intense comparisons, to see if I can hear what this reviewer is hearing. -- Cleve Two-channel system; McIntosh MC2205 amplifier McIntosh MAC4100 receiver Klipsch CF-4 speakers Denon DR-M3 Cassette Deck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cleve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21700 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
