darrell wrote: > To be clear, let's remember we're talking about the perception of > differences between FLAC and AIFF, not differences in general. These are > lossless formats, which means that the bits arriving at your DAC > (unless, as I said, something in your replay chain is broken) are the > same. I think that we can agree that this is fact, not opinion.
I don't buy the bit-perfect statement as a scientific fact. What about the timing in this reasoning? Should we also state that a cd should always sound the same in whatever hardware it is read only because it contains the same bits in both situations? The reality is instead that there IS a process difference between "AIFF to sound" and "ALAC to sound" chains. If the ALAC file was fully transformed to AIFF before it follows the same decoding then that would be a different story. But that is not the case with those systems which manage the transcoding in real-time. So the real question is if that results in audible difference or not. And I can believe that sometimes yes, sometimes not. And that may depends on persons ears as well. We need to respect each other views and differences, no need to have an ideological conflict there. BTW: I am using flac so don't categorize me as audiophile :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chrobrego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15230 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98630 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
