Phil Leigh;485969 Wrote: > No you can carry on - FLAC is fine as a storage medium - the best > choice. > > Much depends on the following: > > 1) are you planning on using TinySC or a seperate server capable of > transcoding FLAC to WAV? if so, there is no issue > > 2) are you going to use an external DAC? if so, there is no issue
I intend to use the Touch in standalone mode (i.e. with TinySC) with an external HDD, and connect it via S/PDIF to a high quality DAC (Lindemann 820S CD/SACD player, which has 4 digital inputs), and I have big expectations regarding the audio quality! I was first planning to buy a Transporter, but the possibility given by the Touch to do without a PC made me think twice. Now, regarding the FLAC vs PCM issue, initially, I thought that John has used FLAC and PCM files, but in fact, he did use the same FLAC file for each test. So, can you precisely explain what John means by "streaming FLAC" and "streaming PCM" ? How does the FLAC to PCM conversion occur in each case ? And, in particular, how does this conversion occur when using TinySC ? -- rotho ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rotho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33493 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70979 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
