Is it even possible for a device receiving the data stream over SPDIF to know whether the data had been subject to lossy compression and then decompression? I have to believe that the receiver does some type of digital signal processing that intends to improve the sound, based upon the characteristics of the data stream. Further, a lossless compressed, then decompressed, data stream should be subject to the same DSP algorithm, albeit if the algorithm is a good one it should likely modify the data stream less than it would for a lossy one.
I'm speculating above, but does that make sense? Certainly it is impossible for the receiver to "restore" the lossed data, but it could certainly make it sound better to some ears than the lossy data alone. If I rip out random pages from the telephone book, you may be able to get a pretty good idea which pages are missing, you may be able to make up some pages that appear to compensate for the discontinuities, but you cannot tell me what was on the missing pages. -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31237 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
