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.-" >
I read Guttenburg's blog when I am browsing around. CNET isn't necessarily an "authority", neither is anyone else for that matter. I take everything I read with a grain of salt. There are some people who prefer WAV, whatever start selling more WAV then on web labels. To each his own. As long as it doesn't have DRM, is lossless and is universally playable on multiple devices and operating systems (like FLAC is as well) I have no problem with "opinions". If he was ranting about the benefits of being locked down by a file format and that authentication for something you bought is awesome I would be more concerned. -- bullethead ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bullethead's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4803 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85280 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
