Blisteringblue;658066 Wrote: > I'm no audiophile in any shape or form but I am an IT man and have to > agree with this one. > > Surely in a party environment the music is a secondary event anyway? > People are there to celebrate a wedding, eat, drink and socialise? > They are not going to notice (or I suspect care) if the music is > streamed as 320k MP3 or fully loaded WAV files? > > While I can see it is a big bash & sounds like the host wants to > impress his guests, but surely nothing wrong with MP3 in that > environment?
>From the available data, very few people on the planet can reliably tell the difference between streamed 320kbs mp3 and flac. Of those, only a very tiny percentage even claim to be able to hear any difference between an SB playing streamed flac or streamed WAV... and their case is not borne out by any available measurement techniques. You are playing these files in mono. That's going to have a much bigger impact on the sound quality than the streaming format in some cases. Just monoing (via cables or SOX) stereo files into mono will seriously mess up some of them (i.e. the ones with out-of-phase l/r components - many tracks from 1967-75 can surprise you). Anyway, enjoy the party! As others have said, I'd stream as FLAC or MP3 for a stress-free party... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90336 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
