nelamvr6 Wrote: > It's even worse than that. The WMA (compressed) files sound *BETTER* to > them than the WAV (uncompressed) files. > > The mind boggles.
Go easy, guys, he did say LOSSLESS WMA. But, steelee, the bit rates you mention aren't really relevant. The WMA bit rate is lower than the WAV bit rate because the file is moderately compressed (just like FLAC or other lossless formats). For one lossless format (WMA or FLAC or WAV) to sound different to another one, there would have to be a bug in the decoding software on the SB, which is of course conceivable but you'd need some serious evidence to convince people. In the past, I think some people with similar concerns have gone so far as to do a digital comparison of the digital output of the SB for different formats fed in, and found them to be identical [NB - this test would probably fail in your case as you've used different rips - the original source WAV would have to be identical for this to be a fair test] Just one thing occurs to me that you might have accidentally introduced - if you have bit rate limiting set on the player settings, slimserver would be helpfully transcoding WAV to MP3 for you, which would probably sound worse. Just verify the bitrate that the player is receiving to check this one. Ceejay. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22141 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
