Since my earliest experiences with MP3, I tend to veer away from any compression schemes.
However, I never thought that FLAC hurt the sound, nor did I say so. - McIntosh wouldn't use it for their Music Server if it did. However, I thought it primarily a benefit for those with VERY large music collections, more than a few hundred CDs, and trying to keep the collection on a single HDD. With the cost per gigabyte of storage keeps on getting lower, and lower, I couldn't see any need to tie up CPU resources and my time on an encoding scheme, when I have ample. How often do FLAC users encounter errors with FLAC files? What's a typical error rate? 1 out of 50? 1 out of 100? 1 out of 1000? If I was getting significant data corruption on my HDD, I'd think I'd encounter other serious and profound system errors besides just issues with AIFF files. In other words, incipient HDD failure. And is there really a sound quality difference in generating AIFF files with Itunes, vs. EAC or other software? -- Cleve Two-channel system; McIntosh MC2205 amplifier McIntosh MAC4100 receiver Klipsch CF-4 speakers Denon DR-M3 Cassette Deck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cleve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18552 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
