Michaelwagner Wrote: > I think Tom's question amounts to questioning where the "flipping" > should be done, in the squeezebox or in the server. > > The problem is you have to essentially decode a stereo signal in order > to flip the phase of one side. The squeezebox is already doing this > decoding, so adding a bit to each channel saying if the signal should > be flipped is much "cheaper" in resources than taking the signal apart > on the server, flipping one side, putting it all back together, then > having the squeezebox do the decoding yet again. > > If that wasn't Tom's point, then just ignore what I wrote. ...
Mainly I was trying to make sure I understood mathematically what we were talking about. Thanks, P Floding and Michaelwagner, for clarifying that. I can see that it would be convenient to be able to listen to both versions (faster than by switching between two versions of the same file) until you had it figured out. I don't get the point, though, about "unaltered" data. Nobody said you had to throw away the original, and the transformation is losslessly invertible anyway. So, yes, you could do it in the server, or before the server. It's a trivial calculation, it doesn't need to be done in real time, and CPU cycles on the box and on the computer don't cost the same, so the comparison of "resources" may not be fair. Aside from the practicalities, which don't seem insurmountable either way, I am wondering if we are being swayed by a psychological distinction between seemingly clean and dirty ways of producing identical bits at the DAC and identical voltages at the speaker terminals. -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19961 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
