Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Julf
Fizbin wrote: I'm one of those 'weirdo's that can hear the difference between WAV and FLAC on the SBT. I have two units and I have confirmed it on both. I've had a friend come over a few times and randomly play a WAV file and the FLAC counterpart. For the first half hour I could tell him

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Mnyb
Julf wrote: That is indeed an interesting result. What I would do is to try to reproduce the results under even stricter conditions - have your friend put together a playlist with a random combination of the FLAC and WAV versions, and preferably try with a file that has been compressed with

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Julf
Mnyb wrote: Either it s a high res file then you get the bogus presentation of bitrate or hi is simply disabling native flac so that he gets pcm(wav) to the player . Is PCM/WAV the fallback fromat? Or some really wierd convert.conf fiddling or soem strange combinationof file types

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread probedb
pablolie wrote: as a rule, either format ought to result in bit-perfect PCM out of the Touch. so just curious about what components and setup are around it. Indeed and easy enough to check by recording the output on PC, making sure they're aligned and then doing a bit compare. If they're not

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Mnyb
probedb wrote: Indeed and easy enough to check by recording the output on PC, making sure they're aligned and then doing a bit compare. If they're not identical then something is wrong. Thats actually not contested , people in this tread claim that the diffrences are for other reasons the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Fizbin
My guess is there is a problem with the software/hardware somewhere. The fact that FLAC's suddenly sounded normal to me when I switched Native to Disabled is odd. Particularly when my mind wasn't expecting to be any different. The funny thing is I've had WAV's set up all wrong the entire time. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Mnyb
Fizbin wrote: My guess is there is a problem with the software/hardware somewhere. The fact that FLAC's suddenly sounded normal to me when I switched Native to Disabled is odd. Particularly when my mind wasn't expecting to be any different. The funny thing is I've had WAV's set up all wrong

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread pablolie
this topic made me go check my own settings in LMS, and has me wondering about them. if a SB3 or Duet or Touch support FLACs natively (which it does), then why the settings for stream format and decoder? why would i want to decode at all? it seems -for example- the FLAC file format can be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread bpa
Fizbin wrote: My guess is there is a problem with the software/hardware somewhere. I suggest re-read the thread as there have been lots of testing and analysis work already done on this topic for example see

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Mnyb
pablolie wrote: this topic made me go check my own settings in LMS, and has me wondering about them. if a SB3 or Duet or Touch support FLACs natively (which it does), then why the settings for stream format and decoder? why would i want to decode at all? it seems -for example- the FLAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Julf
Mnyb wrote: I do believe that you percieve a difference . I dont beleive that there -is- a diffrence . This is diffrent if you understand me ? I still think it would be fair for us to try to see if there is a rational explanation for why there might be an actual difference in this particular

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread probedb
Mnyb wrote: Thats actually not contested , people in this tread claim that the diffrences are for other reasons the streams are bit perfect Fair enough then. We're going into the realms of psychology so I'll duck out. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-28 Thread Mnyb
Julf wrote: I still think it would be fair for us to try to see if there is a rational explanation for why there might be an actual difference in this particular case. Fizbin, could you post your convert.conf file (preferably both versions)? Aha missed that fizzbin has an edited version ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-27 Thread Fizbin
Dusting off this old thread... I'm one of those 'weirdo's that can hear the difference between WAV and FLAC on the SBT. I have two units and I have confirmed it on both. I've had a friend come over a few times and randomly play a WAV file and the FLAC counterpart. For the first half hour I could

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-27 Thread pablolie
what is the rest of your setup like? as a rule, either format ought to result in bit-perfect PCM out of the Touch. so just curious about what components and setup are around it. the config you talk about, is it standard or you modified it? i let everything go in native format to the Touch.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-27 Thread Fizbin
My setup is pretty basic. I'm running a crossover network cable form my SBT to my Windows 7/64 PC. (No router). My SBT analogs plug to my receiver. Awhile ago I was using TinySBS with SD Cards... I could also tell the difference between FLAC and WAV with that setup as well.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2014-10-27 Thread Mnyb
The result should be that wav and flac sound identical for the obvius reason that the electrical signal coming out of the Touch is exactly the same . It's not weird to -hear- a difference it's rather inevitable when using some testing methods with humans involved . So your quite normal not weird

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-09-03 Thread JohnSwenson
I have a little bit of time this weekend, I'm going to try and come up with a method so that wav and flac show up exactly the same on the screen. I like the concept of a playlist pointing at the two files, it makes it simple. John S. -- JohnSwenson

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-09-03 Thread lrossouw
JohnSwenson;573932 Wrote: I have a little bit of time this weekend, I'm going to try and come up with a method so that wav and flac show up exactly the same on the screen. I like the concept of a playlist pointing at the two files, it makes it simple. John S. That's great John. Can

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-09-02 Thread lrossouw
OK I've updated the testing method. Hydrogenaudio testing involves this method: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ABX This is each trial has 3 tracks. 2 of the tracks are known to be pcm and flac (A B). Track X is unknown and one needs to decide whether X is the same as A or B.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-30 Thread Nonreality
KFal;572374 Wrote: Hi John, I have not read the entire thread so apologies if there are any repetitions in my post. What you want to do is a so-called ABX test where the crucial factors are the randomness and the double-blindness of the setup combined with a strict methodology of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-27 Thread andynormancx
JohnSwenson;572357 Wrote: This came about because I (and others) say we can hear the difference between PCM and FLAC decoding on the Touch. Others emphatically state this is theoretically impossible and any claim that it is possible to hear is purely psychological caused by foreknowledge of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-27 Thread Phil Leigh
andynormancx;572443 Wrote: I haven't seen anyone in this thread claim that it is impossible that FLAC and PCM might sound different when decoded on a Touch. The black and white statements that have been made are: - FLAC decodes to exactly the same bits as the WAVE - a difference between

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-27 Thread andynormancx
Phil Leigh;572455 Wrote: Has anyone actually measured the Touch CPU load for PCM vs FLAC? I can't believe it's very different... Of course, if it really does sound different, the difference might not from from noise from the CPU load. What if the noise was coming from the bus between the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-27 Thread NewBuyer
JohnSwenson;572357 Wrote: Where did this come from?... I (and others) say we can hear the difference between PCM and FLAC decoding on the Touch. Others emphatically state this is theoretically impossible... What I was after was ... test if it is even possible to hear a difference... How wide

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-26 Thread NewBuyer
lrossouw;572171 Wrote: Thanks, agree generally, but specifically: - Different songs are not required, but may be preferred. Independence is provided by random pairs of songs that are the same format or different formats, even if all the pairs are the same song. - It should be one tailed as

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-26 Thread JohnSwenson
NewBuyer;57 Wrote: and thus could not at all support the research hypothesis stating that the -general- audience can distinguish a difference on -general- songs Where did this come from? It was never what I was attempting. This came about because I (and others) say we can hear the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-26 Thread KFal
Hi John, I have not read the entire thread so apologies if there are any repetitions in my post. What you want to do is a so-called ABX test where the crucial factors are the randomness and the double-blindness of the setup combined with a strict methodology of statistical evaluation. There is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-26 Thread lrossouw
JohnSwenson;572357 Wrote: I'm leaning towards the playlist with pairs of the same song, which may or may not be the same format. As long as we can find a way to make them display identically it seems like its easy to implement. The remaining questions I have are: should song 1 and 2 be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-25 Thread NewBuyer
lrossouw;571916 Wrote: ... FORMAT 3 N pairs of songs. Each is a pair of the same track. But different pairs can be different tracks. Here we simply randomly flip pairs such that they are the same (both pcm or both flac) or different (1 pcm and 1 flac). You just identify which pairs

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-25 Thread cliveb
JohnSwenson;571850 Wrote: Lets make sure I understand this: we have a wav and flac of the same song. We have a playlist with a random distribution of those two songs. The person performing the test can listen to the playlist as many times as desired, skip forward, back etc. Quite so.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-25 Thread Listener
Phil Leigh;571614 Wrote: Heisenberg was talking about the Quantum level - where all bets are basically off! Some people are more uncertain than others. Phil Leigh;571614 Wrote: We are a long way from that in this discussion. In an audiophile discussion, you are never far from someone's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-25 Thread lrossouw
NewBuyer;572018 Wrote: I think you are certainly doing better now, with this last proposal. No longer is there a subjective better involved in the research hypothesis, but rather a more realistic test of a detected difference. Also using different songs for different trial pairs will in

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-25 Thread RonM
I would never have guessed I'd find such an animated discussion of research methodology on this forum! Coco Love Alcorn would have so much fun over here! (see my recent post in the Music forum) Ron -- RonM RonM's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Leigh
earwaxer9;571531 Wrote: I think John has put his finger on an important point here! - It reminds me of college physics. Specifically the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Sometimes when you try to observe/measure something you cant help but change what it is you are trying to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread JohnSwenson
Mnyb;571592 Wrote: And the digital out, are people still suggesting that the digital output is affected ? Yes, if something in the Touch changes the jitter of the clock going to the DAC chip it will also change the jitter of the clock used for S/PDIF (its the same clock in the Touch),

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread michael123
Phil Leigh;571614 Wrote: We are in the material world, where the effect of jitter on a DAC can only appear as deviations in frequency/amplitude in the analogue audio signal. Phil, I think you ignored time scale, what about phase response? -- michael123

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread JohnSwenson
Fortunately the test between flac and PCM stream decode is very easy to do. It can be be done remotely, in another room and there is no indication on the Touch itself what the state is. A predetermined random sequence can be devised (computer or real coin flip or whatever). The tester sends an

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread soundcheck
As I mentioned before. It is not about flac vs. wav. It is about different (non-linear) load conditions caused by the realtime decoding. @John: You might have seen that Gordon Rankin avoids strictly to use the term jitter in a discussions like this. Since quite some time he is referring to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread lrossouw
JohnSwenson;571631 Wrote: Fortunately the test between flac and PCM stream decode is very easy to do. It can be be done remotely, in another room and there is no indication on the Touch itself what the state is. A predetermined random sequence can be devised (computer or real coin flip

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread NewBuyer
lrossouw;571645 Wrote: We are trying to get whether the two processes result in different sound to a user. This test would allow us to reject the hypotheis that method 1 (stream pcm) is not better than method 2 (stream flac) with a probability of error of x%. The smaller you want x% to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread CharlieG
Variables have not been talked about in recent posts about testing. A) Which stereo equipment will be used? Can’t you hear it now, “of course you didn’t hear a difference Charlie, your gear isn’t revealing enough”. B) Do you need a stock or modified Touch to be able to hear the differences?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread cliveb
JohnSwenson;571631 Wrote: A predetermined random sequence can be devised (computer or real coin flip or whatever). The tester sends an email to the changer person who looks up the next state on the list and changes the setting in the server. After sending the email the tester waits one

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread RonM
JohnSwenson;571631 Wrote: Then the big question is how many tests to run. When others have done other tests and only done 8 or 10 tests they have been beaten up by some people saying that is way too small a number of tests, you need to do several hundred to be scientifically valid. Whats

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Leigh
soundcheck;571632 Wrote: As I mentioned before. It is not about flac vs. wav. It is about different (non-linear) load conditions caused by the realtime decoding. @John: You might have seen that Gordon Rankin strictly avoids to use the term jitter in a discussion like this. Since

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Leigh
michael123;571627 Wrote: Phil, I think you ignored time scale, what about phase response? Timescale is fixed by the DAC clock, which is supposed to be a constant for the duration of a replay event. Almost no DAC's take their clock directly from the s/pdif stream any more - they almost all

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread lrossouw
NewBuyer;571683 Wrote: Some (possibly incorrect) observations here: If you wish to use the binomial sign test, then you should probably not use the same piece of music for separate trial iterations (as this could possibly violate the independence of trials requirement). If your research

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread lrossouw
CharlieG;571708 Wrote: Variables have not been talked about in recent posts about testing. A) Which stereo equipment will be used? Can’t you hear it now, “of course you didn’t hear a difference Charlie, your gear isn’t revealing enough”. B) Do you need a stock or modified Touch to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread lrossouw
cliveb;571716 Wrote: Just take a track you say exhibits an audible difference between FLAC and PCM, and store it on the SB Server in both FLAC and PCM formats. Then get someone to build a playlist containing these two versions at random. (Flipping a coin to decide each item is probably the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Mnyb
I still like phils idea about measuring it better . If it can be measured we don't need an elaborate dbt test. Dbt is great for weeding out if there is a difference if we have many unknown to fight with . The output is not an unknown it is an electrical signal and it can be measured. If it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Mnyb
Hey we have thoose very low level test signals that MSWlogo used in his dac resolution test . Why not play for example the -108dB 3500Hz tone crank up the volume sit with the ear next to the speaker and listen . This is ofcourse totally unatural to how you use your stereo normally but if the WAV

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Leigh
lrossouw;571794 Wrote: Well the tests need to be done with whoever believes it to be different. E.g. someone who says I can hear the difference on system XYZ. The equipment shouldn't make a difference unless there is something that artificially changes the sound depending on what type of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Leigh
Mnyb;571802 Wrote: I still like phils idea about measuring it better . If it can be measured we don't need an elaborate dbt test. Dbt is great for weeding out if there is a difference if we have many unknown to fight with . The output is not an unknown it is an electrical signal and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread lrossouw
Mnyb;571926 Wrote: re Music: Why not use music the test perssons is familiar with. Or in case of some agreed upon 24/96 tunes let them have it an week in advance. Would this increase chances of detection, it would not give you a general case but thats not needed, if someone can here it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-24 Thread Mnyb
lrossouw;571929 Wrote: Agreed. I was suggesting that the person who is doing the tests chose the music they think there is a difference in. It would be great if we can limit it to normal 16/44 CD quality music as this is what most people listen to most of the time. Agreed on settings

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-23 Thread earwaxer9
JohnSwenson;571006 Wrote: I've already posted my thoughts on this subject back towards the beginning of this thread but I'll restate them here. It seems to me there are two parts to this debate: 1, can people hear it. 2, is there a measurable mechanism that can account for it. In

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-23 Thread lrossouw
JohnSwenson;571006 Wrote: I CAN hear a definite difference between decoding FLAC and PCM on the Touch through its analog outs. I HAVE done blind tests and can still detect the difference. Some people have chimed up and said that these are scientifically useless tests and are thus

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-23 Thread RonM
Ideally, of course, you'd want the helper to also be blind as to which session was WAV or FLAC. Double-blind, the way to go. Very important to control for volume. You'd think we were testing pharmaceuticals, or psychological procedures. Hmm. I guess it really IS the latter! Suggestion and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-23 Thread Grahame
How about one of the ITU or EBU recommendations that address this exact area e.g. ITU-R BS.1116, www.ebu.ch/trev_274-hoeg.pdf http://www.madebydelta.com/delta/Business_units/TC/Services+by+technology/Sensory+Evaluation/slo_ITU-R_BS.1116-1.page or this Masters Thesis

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-23 Thread Mnyb
RonM;571588 Wrote: Ideally, of course, you'd want the helper to also be blind as to which session was WAV or FLAC. Double-blind, the way to go. Also, controlling for volume would be critical. You'd think we were testing pharmaceuticals, or psychological procedures. Hmm. I guess it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-22 Thread Phil Leigh
John, The jitter in the soundcard used with ADM should not matter (provided it is not excessive). Why? - because, as you know, jitter in the source DAC can only audibly manifest itself as amplitude or frequency effects that distort the analogue signal. Modern soundcards (24/96 and up) are

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-21 Thread JohnSwenson
I've already posted my thoughts on this subject back towards the beginning of this thread but I'll restate them here. It seems to me there are two parts to this debate: 1, can people hear it. 2, is there a measurable mechanism that can account for it. In regards to 1: I CAN hear a definite

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread soundcheck
Phil Leigh;570306 Wrote: For what it's worth, I haven't tested your claims/tweaks on the analogue outputs (as I don't use them at all). For me they had no effect on the digital output - I am not speaking for anyone else here. It took you a while to come up with this feedback. ;) Anyhow.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread soundcheck
earwaxer9;570470 Wrote: What has been very interesting to me is that, the deficiencies in my system have been mostly solved by some very inexpensive methods. Where I thought I needed more power (I'm not saying that I wont revisit that one), for example, I have largely solved through data

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread Phil Leigh
audiomuze;570576 Wrote: thik we should rename this the Seinfeld thread...the thread about nothing, that we keep revisiting. But - where do YOU stand? :-) -- 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) -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread audiomuze
Phil Leigh;570594 Wrote: But - where do YOU stand? :-) Lossless = WAV = Lossless...if there's something about decoding lossless at the player side my Transporter and ATCs can't resolve it or I'm too old to hear it. -- audiomuze '*puddletag: A tag editor for Linux (that happens to run on

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread Phil Leigh
audiomuze;570634 Wrote: Lossless = WAV = Lossless...if there's something about decoding lossless at the player side my Transporter and ATCs can't resolve it or I'm too old to hear it. Cool - I'm with you. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread ralphpnj
phil leigh;570635 Wrote: cool - i'm with you. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread Mnyb
-- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread garym
audiomuze;570576 Wrote: thik we should rename this the Seinfeld thread...the thread about nothing, that we keep revisiting. Love it. But I laugh even harder when I change the font of my webbrowser. -- garym garym's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread Mnyb
What many fail to recognize , is that the many treads articles post etc claiming this is WAVFLAC is never backed up by real fact's . it could be but who knows ? even if 100 Audiophiles claims this, in so many beautiful words in some fora, it does not prove a thing the information content is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-20 Thread Phil Leigh
Mnyb;570682 Wrote: ...(it once was a respectable hobby)... And you know who I blame for this? - retailers, manufacturers and reviewers. A cosy, self-serving relationship. Not all of them. But enough - and they know who they are. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread cliveb
Phil Leigh;570093 Wrote: Chris - the benefit is that the DAC will shift its anti-alias filter well away from the audible frequency range. It's not about extra info - as you say there isn't any. It's a trick - but a good one. And one which pretty much all DACs (except for those off-the-wall

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread c3p0
Hi Folks, Just reviewed this whole thread and I think it could benefit from some Paraphrasing. It started of by someone (Louis) saying that he converted his book (16/48), to a digital format, WORD (wav) doc but then if he emailed them as pdf (flac), they didnt read the same, he prefered the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread andynormancx
Funny, but a flawed analogy. A PDF of a Word document is not lossless in the same way a FLAC is compared to the original WAVE data. A Word doc contains all sorts of data that doesn't make it into the PDF version. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread c3p0
andynormancx;570196 Wrote: Funny, but a flawed analogy. A PDF of a Word document is not lossless in the same way a FLAC is compared to the original WAVE data. A Word doc contains all sorts of data that doesn't make it into the PDF version. Exactly but they tell the same story, using the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread firedog
Stratmangler;570081 Wrote: There are two things you'd need to set up - resample to, and bit depth. Why you'd want to is beyond me - all you're going to do is add lots of noughts. You can't just magic information out of thin air if it doesn't exist already. Agreed, but as Phil says, it

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread m1abrams
c3p0;570198 Wrote: Exactly but they tell the same story, using the same words, neither more nor less, same Paragraphs, chapters.Same number of sentances, words per sentance, letters within words. There is no additional Storyline or less Dialog. The plot isnt enhanced or edited. Would be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread c3p0
Better analogy with the zip file. But still waiting a paraphrased conclusion to 34 pages of comments. -- c3p0 c3p0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20721 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread Phil Leigh
cliveb;570182 Wrote: And one which pretty much all DACs (except for those off-the-wall NOS jobbies) have been doing since the late 1980s. If you want the benefit of moving the reconstruction filter out of harm's way, simple oversampling does the trick (and as I said above, happens inside

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread Phil Leigh
c3p0;570267 Wrote: Better analogy with the zip file. But still waiting a paraphrased conclusion to 34 pages of comments. OK... Some people think they can hear a difference when sending PCM to an SB vs a FLAC file... and others don't. No known measurement system has yet produced any

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread soundcheck
Phil Leigh;570271 Wrote: OK... Some people think they can hear a difference when sending PCM to an SB vs a FLAC file... and others don't. No known measurement system has yet produced any reliable evidence that they produce audibly different results (in fact quite the opposite), yet

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread Wombat
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread c3p0
Just to summarize the whole thing I'd say the whole discussion should not be about flac vs. wav. The data is the same. It is about reducing load on the audio client. So that would suggest that only analog outputs would be affected but not the spdif/tos to an external DAC. Or does it affect the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-19 Thread Phil Leigh
c3p0;570297 Wrote: Just to summarize the whole thing I'd say the whole discussion should not be about flac vs. wav. The data is the same. It is about reducing load on the audio client. So that would suggest that only analog outputs would be affected but not the spdif/tos to an external

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-18 Thread firedog
earwaxer9;569921 Wrote: I have some high res. flac downloads that sound great. I havent really compared CD res. sound to flac. What I have done is rip some CD's to 24/96 with dbpoweramp. I transfer them over ethernet. I will say that they clearly sound better than the rips at native res. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-18 Thread earwaxer9
firedog;569980 Wrote: dbpoweramp can rip wav files to flac at any bitrate and resolution you want. It's one of the DSP options (not in the free version, you need at least the PowerPack version). http://www.dbpoweramp.com/db-versions.htm Lots of listeners think 96k files sound better, even

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-18 Thread Stratmangler
earwaxer9;570049 Wrote: Interesting - I will have to play around with dbpoweramp some more! I have the full version. What DSP option would I use? thanks There are two things you'd need to set up - resample to, and bit depth. Why you'd want to is beyond me - all you're going to do is add

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-17 Thread probedb
Louishlomador;569164 Wrote: I personally will not use Flac as i still can tell differences bewteen Flac and wave. There isn't even a camparism between Flac and Wave, on the official flac website. I just find that a bit strange. link below. Wavepack is not the same as wave. on the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-17 Thread m1abrams
Louishlomador;569164 Wrote: I havent tried it in flac, dont see the need as storage mediums are becoming bigger and bigger. How about a standard tag support? WAV format has no standard tag support. Also bandwidth savings of FLAC. As people have already jumped on you about the fact that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-17 Thread earwaxer9
I have some high res. flac downloads that sound great. I havent really compared CD res. sound to flac. What I have done is rip some CD's to 24/96 with dbpoweramp. I transfer them over ethernet. I will say that they clearly sound better than the rips at native res. I thought about ripping to flac

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-17 Thread lrossouw
earwaxer9;569921 Wrote: I thought about ripping to flac but I cant control the resolution in the same way as with a wave file. It was always my understanding that you can convert pretty much any wav to flac. So you could have 24/96 flac by just converting your 24/96 wav. -- lrossouw

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-17 Thread Pat Farrell
On 08/17/2010 06:49 PM, earwaxer9 wrote: I thought about ripping to flac but I cant control the resolution in the same way as with a wave file. This makes no sense. The resolution of a flac file is exactly the same as the input wave/pcm file. Flac is lossless. You can uncompress the flac

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-15 Thread andynormancx
Louishlomador;569164 Wrote: I personally will not use Flac as i still can tell differences bewteen Flac and wave. There isn't even a camparism between Flac and Wave, on the official flac website. I just find that a bit strange. link below. Wavepack is not the same as wave. on the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-08-14 Thread Louishlomador
Finally it seems squeezebox version 7.5 and 7.5.1 works perfectly with squeezebox classic. There is certainly a big massive improvement on the sound quality between other versions. 7.5 or 7.5.1 is the best i have ever heard my squeezbox play music in wave format though. I havent tried it in flac,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-07-04 Thread Themis
TheRooster2000;559387 Wrote: Thanks very much! I think it's very helpful because it's against Argentinia today! I have to go watching now. Kick-off soon! :) Bye, Christian A bit OOT, of course, but congrats for Germany. Nice football. :) -- Themis SBT - North Star dac 192 - Croft

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-07-03 Thread Themis
Phil Leigh;558899 Wrote: Server-side FLAC-PCM also doesn't handle 24/96. Some hacking of the custom_convert.conf file is required. Has anyone got this working? It works for me on the 7.5.1 (required for Touch) without customizing the convert.conf -- Themis SBT - North Star dac 192 - Croft

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-07-03 Thread michael123
when you say PCM, is it same as WAV? Header-less WAVE? If I customize SOX to send uncompressed WAV, is it equivalent to PCM? -- michael123 michael123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23745 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-07-03 Thread Phil Leigh
Themis;559339 Wrote: It works for me on the 7.5.1 (required for Touch) without customizing the convert.conf Interesting... You are correct! - I had a corrupted convert.conf file (doh!) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-07-03 Thread Phil Leigh
michael123;559347 Wrote: when you say PCM, is it same as WAV? Header-less WAVE? If I customize SOX to send uncompressed WAV, is it equivalent to PCM? Yes - In audio data terms, PCM and WAV are equivalent. Slight differences in physical format. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path

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