cliveb;497542 Wrote: > 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.
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