The most important difference between lossless formats is the amount of processor they consume while encoding/decoding. The second most important difference is the compression ratio (vs. raw PCM/WAV format). I'm speaking technically...I suppose the most important functional difference is the amount of device, etc., support each format has vs. the others. In this respect, FLAC is pretty good.
There's a lot of discussion in the hydrogenaudio fora on this stuff. Incidentally, there's a new lossless format in the works that seems to crush the existing ones technically, but of course they will still have functional advantages for some time to come. -- Balthazar_B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32212 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
