Shuggie;192970 Wrote: > I'm sure all the above is theoretically correct, but I found that > reproduction of Apple Lossless files through the SB3 was noticeably > poorer than WAV or AIFF, even after checking that Slimserver was not > transcoding ALAC to MP3 etc. So, I can understand that ALAC is not a > compromise per se, but that's not quite how it works out with > Slimserver and the SB3. As disk space is not a problem for me, I am > content to use uncompressed storage in iTunes, which I find the easiest > way to organise my music. I can't be bothered with FLAC, when Apple > have made iTunes so pleasant to use.
That's an extraordinary claim - my understanding is that SS converts apple lossless files into WAV *at the server side* before streaming it to the SB3, and therefore the packets the SB3 receives, and the processing it has to perform, are *identical* whether your music is stored as apples lossless or as WAV/AIFF. Have you done a blind test to verify that the effect is real? -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34122 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
