ralphpnj wrote: > This an old complaint and made some sense back when CPUs were much > slower and much less powerful. Today's computers and computers made > within the last 5 years are all quite capable of handling flac to wav > on-the-fly decompression without any loss in sound quality. Besides if > the high end is worried about this why doesn't one of the manufacturers > come up with a network player that decompresses the flac file to wav, > sends the wav file to a buffer and then the buffer feeds the sonically > pure wav file to the DAC.
No it did not make sense 20 years ago either, if the cpu fan do it your fine. TAS is completely dishonest and repaets these fairy tales because this is what the audiophool culture wants to hear and creates the rigth environment to place ads in. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100783 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
