Henry66;607150 Wrote: > See Steve Guttenberg's article: 'Does lossless audio guarantee good > sound?' (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20029913-47.html) > > He writes a lot of stuff that I completely agree with, but then ends > with this: "-So while lossless audio compression (FLAC or Apple > Lossless for example) can be "expanded" to produce an exact digital > duplicate of the original audio stream, that's not necessarily the same > thing as sounding exactly like an uncompressed WAV file or a CD.-" > > Aaargh!
I think his main thesis is this: a poorly recorded/mixed/mastered track when played in a lossless format sounds worse than a well recorded/mixed/mastered track played in a lossy format. That much I'd agree with him. The part where he lost me was when he insists that FLAC, expanded back into its original source WAV/AIFF, sounds inferior than that same WAV/AIFF. That's baloney. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85280 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
