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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