odw199 wrote: > 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
I've not purchased from 7digital yet but they do have some material I am interested in. I am reminded that I need to occasionally seek out which lossless downloads are available from where. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davesworld's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63649 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
