Chrobrego wrote: > Not to deviate from the original debate but just to mention the > complexity of the HiFi sound capture and reproduction, I would avoid the > expression "bit-perfect" but rather call it "bit-unperfect". Bit is > digital - not real - world and already translates irremediable sound > alteration that truncates the signal as the result of the quantification > applied during PCM conversion. > >
Except that wasn't what the original discussion was about. Check the first post - the letter writer in TAS claimed to start with a lossless format file, converted it to a different lossless format file and heard differences between the two. That's all digital realm. The analog to digital conversion had already happened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EricBergan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4746 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