Hi, A very interesting read, thank you to everyone who's clearly put time and thought into the research.
A couple of questions from my rather naive (and very computer science orientated background). I ripped my CD collection to FLAC many years ago using Max on a Mac (http://sbooth.org/Max/). I can't remember the exact settings, but would have probably been very close to the defaults as shipped with the application. My understanding being the software digitally extracted the 1s and 0s from the CD and then converted these to a FLAC file. In such a setup, how can you produce a bad FLAC version with clipping not present on the original as mentioned by Davesworld? Secondly, where do people recomend downloading lossless files from if not HDTracks? Is 7digital regarded as a better source (I'm mainly thinking about new releases as opposed to old recordings re-issued for the digital age). Cheers LMS Server: Mac Mini with music library on Drobo 5D Living Room: Raspberry Pi + AlloBoss -> Onkyo A 9010 -> KEF LS50 Study: Raspberry Pi -> Audio Engine D1 -> Audio Addon Pro T3 Kitchen: Squeezebox Radio Bedroom: SB3 -> B&W Zeppelin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ odw199's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
