AndrewFG;360440 Wrote: 
> If so, then it seems that there is a lot of digital processing going on
> in real time, in at least two different CPUs, that gives plenty of
> opportunities for rounding errors, timing errors, error correction
> artifacts, and jitter to creep in. (Not to mention any prior artifacts
> introduced by iTunes in the ripping process).
> 
> Did anyone do proper end-to-end tests on the path CD - iTunes - alac -
> flac - volume - dac in real time, real world conditions? Can one be
> sure that the process is REALLY lossles? Any thoughts?
If iTunes is introducing artifacts while ripping to ALAC, then it's
broken. Simple as that. Ripping to a lossless format then transcoding
to another lossless format will still be lossless. No additional audio
processing is being done in that process by SqueezeCenter.


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