Quotes from the June 2007 edition: pages 65 & 66 -"HI-FI Sound From Your Laptop"-- "…the most effective compromise is to rip all your music to iTunes using the Apple lossless format: it sounds significantly better than any lossy compressions, yet is not as slow and hard-drive devouring as the uncompressed file. *It’s a good all-round compromise and one that with the right speakers can sound genuinely impressive"*.
"The Apple Lossless of Ibrahim Ferrer's Dos Almas sounds stunningly open, detailed and full bodied: *a remarkable sound for a file using any compression at all*" page 80 -"Sound Advice" : "Quality vs file-size conundrum"-- "*Apple Lossless is the best-quality widely compatible format*…" What planet are these guys on? These statements amount to nothing more than a load of uninformed rubbish! If their so called experts had understood or bothered to research the topic properly they would have 1) realized there is no "compromise" in lossless audio compression, and 2) there is no difference in "quality" of lossless compression regardless of the encoding/compression algorithm. Funny also that FLAC isn't even mentioned - are these guys living under a rock, endorsed by Apple? Clearly, this is a magazine not intended for anyone capable of thinking for themselves, I'd even go so far as to label those articles irresponsible journalism. -- egd Transporter >> SCA2 >> SCM100SLAT via balanced XLR Linux and loving IT! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35350 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
