netchord wrote: > well, SC is converting ALAC to FLAC using faad/sox, so i guess the > difference I'm hearing is actually between FLAC and AIFF, both of which > are converted natively by the TP. > > and would it surprise you to learn i hear a difference between wired and > wireless to the TP, and prefer the former? what ever bias might be > involved, i assure you it's an inconvenient one- running ethernet to my > system was a pain in the ass.
Okay, then what happens to the sound when you turn off the transcoding to FLAC between audio stored as AIFF vs. ALAC? No, nothing surprises me anymore such as *claims* of audibility between WiFi and Ethernet - it is your ears, your home, your system, your settings after all. How would I know if everything is set up properly when you're testing? People claim a lot of things over the Internet. What would be *useful* is if a blind test showed the difference or measurements showing a difference and pointing to a cause. Then we can really get somewhere. Remember, ALAC, FLAC, APE, WV, etc. are all coded/engineered to be bit-perfect. In a GOOD system, they SHOULD NOT sound different from WAV/AIFF. As I suggested, to hear a difference suggests your system is doing something funny. This is not a good thing and IMO is not necessarily indicative of a hi-fi's resolving capacity; rather, it's resolving enough to show a hardware limitation in decoding lossless compressed audio data which should be trivial! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98630 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
