I use the Mac OS X app "Max" for ripping and encoding to FLAC. This has a number of encoder settings for FLAC. Could someone tell me what effect they have on the audio quality of the FLAC, please?
In particular: There are 8 (+ a custom setting) compression levels. I use the default setting of 5. Presumably 8 is a more compressed file; if it's still Lossless, why is there a choice? What would be the benefit of a bigger file if the quality was the same? With a custom level set for compression, a number of other settings are available, including: QLP coefficient precision Min and Max residual partition order Maximum LPC order You can also "enable mid-side coding for stereo input" and enable "loose mid-side adaptive switching for stereo input". I get great results from the default settings, but an curious to know about these options. Thanks . . . -- morris_minor SB3 > Sonifex RB DAC1 > Musical Fidelity X10v3 > Sudgen Headmaster > Sennheiser HD 595 Michell Gyrodec SE DC [Tecnoarm, Goldring 1042] > Graham Slee Era V Gold > [Sugden Headmaster] . . . Pioneer DV565 universal player, Panasonic DVR, Yamaha DSPAX750SE, Kef Cresta 30 (fronts), Tannoy Profile 633 (rears) Mac Mini [1.83GHz, 2Gb], Iomega Minimax 500Gb, LaCie Ethernet BigDisk 1TB, D-Link DSL604+, M-Audio Transit USB, Audiolab 8000A, Monitor Audio M2s Crappy old PC - 1GHz Athlon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ morris_minor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40440 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
