Robin Bowes wrote:
I think you'll find that there is a significant body of SB users who use flac or some other lossless compression that is streamed as PCM (WAV if you prefer). Check out http://bugs.slimdevices.com and search for bugs with more than 10 votes. There are 5. Native FLAC decoding has nearly three times as many votes as the next highest (38 vs. 14).
Hey that's my bug! :-)
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230
Count me as one with almost all FLACs. I have over 7500 tracks and only about 300 are MP3's (old/rare stuff). Lossy compression is just crazy for any serious collection. Space is cheap now, FLAC compression is fast, and you are are really going to have crap after you transcode your MP3 "originals".
That said I don't really consider myself an 'audiophile' (I think I've joked that I'm a betterthanMP3phile though). I have a couple wireless squeezeboxes for portable and bedroom use that are playing transcoded to MP3. However, for the proper, main stereos it's uncompressed over a wire.
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