I agree with what people are saying here about lossless formats being, after all, lossless - but no one has addressed what seems to me to be the crucial question raised by the OP.
Suppose the SB and/or the server isn't able to do bit-accurate FLAC decompression in real time? For example, in any computer occasionally there will be an error due to a bad hard drive read or a RAM glitch or something. In normal asynchronous applications this gets caught by error checking and corrected. But here the decoding has to occur at least fast enough to keep up with the music. So isn't it theoretically possible that some errors could creep in due to this? Let me be clear, I consider this very unlikely since it should be possible to decode FLAC files much faster than real time, thus leaving plenty of time for error corrections in the unlikely event one occurs. Also, such an uncorrected error would probably have a big effect on the sound, not a subtle one - unless the SB does some kind of interpolation after an error, as CD players do. But since FLAC files probably encode the data in a non-local (in time) way, this might be impossible. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21700 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
