Agree with all the above. EAC in secure mode will get as close as possible - usually 100% - to the original bits from the disk onto your hard drive. Once there we are no longer in the realm of infinite improbability familiar to us audiophiles. We are now - temporarily - in the world of absolute determinism known as "computing" where only hard, cold logic applies. At this stage bits are truly bits. They are either on or off. They are what they are. When packed by a lossless codec (eg FLAC or whatever) they can be reconstituted with 100% accuracy. If this were not true, computers would not work - period. You would notice rather quickly if there was any indeterminancy in the way the computer reads data from a hard drive or ram...
Of course, then we send the data over ethernet to the Squeezebox (still OK, still "computing" at this point) and eventually we start to turn the bits into an analogue signal at which point the computing stops and "odd stuff" starts to happen again. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42435 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
