The reason that such such thing cannot affect quality in a consistent (durable) way is that inflation (decompression from FLAC to PCM) is *not* a CPU-consuming process, contrarily to compression. To give you an example, the decompression of a 3-minute song should not take more than -say- 10 seconds. However you may distribute this activity into the 3 minutes, it is of no interest.
So, however such an activity could (possibly) distribute itself in time, still it cannot impact more than -for instance- the sliding of the letters on the display... So, unless someone provides some *measured* proof of such an impact, I guess we have to look somewhere else for an -eventual- sonic difference explanation. :) -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Cyrus 8xp - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
