Phil Leigh;497487 Wrote: > There are only 2 factors in play, the bits and the clocks. The bits are > always the same - can we agree on this?. There are two more factors I can think of.
One is that receiving and decoding WAV versus FLAC inside the Squeezebox will place differing loads on things like the CPU, network adaptor, etc, and this might conceivably alter things like noise on the power rails, RFI flying around inside the device, etc. There have been other threads in the past that speculated on this as a possible source of influence on the performance of analogue circuitry (eg. the Squeezebox's DAC). The other factor at play (and my money is on this one) is the listener. There is an overwhelming body of scientific research which proves that expectation affects perception. Anyone who claims to have heard a difference between WAV and FLAC has to back it up with a properly conducted blind comparison. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
