DeVerm;358787 Wrote: > I would estimate the exact opposite happening, if anything happens at > all. Noise from CPU is often when it does high speed data transfers, > not calculations. As you have more data transfer when streaming wav, I > would think this would cause more noise than flac. > > Another question is the CPU & clock design. If the clock is constant > (unlike mobile CPU's that can lower the clock on low-load conditions) > the noise from the clock is constant. Some simple CPU's spend their > idle time looping in an "idle-loop" which doesn't change a lot from > useful calculations although one might argue that it will only use some > registers and not external memory. Other CPU's have very efficient > wait-on-interrupt designs. > > cheers, > Nick.
Correct and I think you're better off letting the SB "unpack" a stream that has all the checksums etc. associated with FLAC that are missing with raw WAV. Apples Lossless is probably already being transcoded to WAV or FLAC. -- mswlogo XP > Cat5 > Transporter > SPDIF > Meridian G68 > DSP 6000, 5500HC, 33 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian DSP 5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian G91 > DSP 5000 'My Transporter Setup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=350741&postcount=45) 'Hitch Hikers Guide to Meridian' (http://www.meridianunplugged.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54934 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
