> Martin Leese wrote: > >> What I read was that most contributors accept >> that FLAC is bit perfect. It is easy to propose >> mechanisms to explain why people hear >> differences. (The most obvious one is that >> there are no differences to hear. Another is >> that the extra computation load on the >> processor places noise onto the power rails, >> affecting the D/A convertors.) However, >> without proper double blind testing, there is >> little point. > > Until there are a couple of reliable ABX tests that confirm > this its simply not worth discussing. > > Erik
I remember Josh Coalson one time pointing out that, for some devices, decoding FLAC is actually faster and less resource intensive than WAV because the reduced I/O cost outweighs the CPU cost. This would be espcially true in a fast laptop with a 5400 RPM drive, or a mobile phone with a 1.2GHz ARM processor and a class-2 SD card. -Ben Allison _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
