kphinney;210810 Wrote: > Actually, this is the first time I heard about iTunes not perfectly > reproducing the original tracks in Lossless rips. Can anyone cite any > studies to determine the validity of this one way or another?
I don't have any studies to cite, but I've heard anecdotally from numerous sources that if your CD is in excellent condition, iTunes with error correction on a Mac delivers bit-perfect rips (one story I heard had someone ripping 100 CDs and finding only 4 wrong bytes total). Note that this is not true for iTunes on PC. I used iTunes to rip to Apple Lossless, but I make sure that the ALAC files are converted to WAV in Slimserver before transmitting to my Transporter/SB2/SB3... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36362 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
