Digital information is a stream of numbers. I assume that when a CD is ripped to FLAC then both the CD and the FLAC generate the same stream of numbers - that would be the FLAC-developer's goal if the FLAC is to be the computer-file embodiment of the CD.
I notice that no-one in this thread has suggested in any specific technical way why the two identical streams of numbers sound different, but one person has suggested that maybe they don't, that the perceived difference could have been psychological. Digital technology is very good at handling numbers - you can copy a piece of software from one computer to another and load it on the second computer and it won't crash, when just one bit in error could have crashed it. In the world of computing much digital data is being routinely transmitted and stored accurately and I don't know why in music reproduction it should be any different as long as the equipment is working properly. Red Book CDs have very powerful error correction, even if it is less powerful than Yellow Book computer CDROMs, and they shouldn't allow more than about one error bit per second, which I doubt could be audible. -- DennyL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39113 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
