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.


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