dSw Wrote: > Not so sure about that. WAV is a computer data file format. Yes, it does > contain PCM data but the key word there is 'contain'. As far as I know, > the data that gets passed to the DAC or the digital conenction is in > PCM format.
Most WAV files are plain PCM with a (small) header, so a very basic player could quite simply strip the header and push the rest of the file straight to the DAC (in fact, I wrote several such players when I was a kid). Decompression, on the other hand, be it lossless or lossy, is a decidedly more complex affair. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22936 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
