JackOfAll wrote: > Marco, > > What is the real point to all of this? If I understand correctly, you > upsample on the server and then rather than stream to the client using a > "container" format like flac/wav, insist on sending uncompressed PCM > across the network? I must be missing something here.... Is this some > sort of audiophool belief that somehow decoding flac degrades sound > quality? Perhaps I'm missing the point, so can you please explain.
Indeed it works only using wav or aiff, pcm has no header, so nothing to do. The goal is to decrease the cpu load on the client AND on the server (avoiding the encode/decode to flac) at the cost of increased (almost doubled) bandwidth usage. About being an audiophool, i'm used to be mocked as a skeptic in many audiophile circles, so it always make me smile when someone naim me as an audiophool, but in short, yes, in my system and for my ears it sound different. Anathema!!! Wait, sure is placebo, but the effect of decoding or not on the client is to me greater than play a 44100 vs an 88200 or 176400 upsampled file. So, I'm happy with this placebo, since it reduce the cpu load and decrease the network band (no needs for 176400 upsampling anymore) with NO sound degradation. Should'nt I? ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
