AndrewFG;362812 Wrote:
> Indeed lossless is lossless. No dispute on this truism.
>
> But on the other hand if you ask the sound processing to jump through
> hoops on the journey from A to B then the more hoops you add, the
> higher the chances that something WILL get lost.
>
> { I hope you guys are not designers for nuclear power stations.
> Personally I prefer the main coolant feed to the reactor to be as short
> as possible, rather than making a detour round my back yard. }
I am a designer of VERY large scale computer systems, and I'm more than
happy to state that lossless audio computer software doesn't behave like
analogue electronics! :o). There is no direct equivalent of transfer
loss or generation loss.
There is no "sound processing", just lossless audio data processing.
This has been definitely proven many, many times. If you compare the
bits from the CD to what comes out - no matter what lossless chain is
in the way - the bits are the same.
Given an accurate rip and lossless data transmission to the DAC, the
audiophile paranoia really starts at the DAC and everything beyond.
everything upstream of the Squeezebox is irrelevant to sound quality,
given the above caveats.
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann
JISCO/UPCI - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF
Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x
LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters,
Kimber & Chord cables
Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...)
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