I wouldn't draw any conclusions one way or the other from that. It sounds like your recording device simply isn't good enough, or there's some other problem somewhere. I tried this three times - with a SoundBlaster card in my PC, with a Tascam USB mic interface using the line-in, and with my Mac Book Pro's sound card. The recordings were of a stereo musical track, about 30s long, with one recording made with a FLAC source and one WAV (decoded on the SB - the idea was to debunk this nonsense about FLAC sounding worse than WAV). So the recordings were time-separated, and not even the same length (due to some variation in when I hit start and stop).
In none of those cases did I get anything like what you're describing. The Tascam introduced a high-pitched whine that was audible in both the recording and the difference, so I didn't use it further. However both the soundcard recordings made difference files that were close to white noise. The mac recording had lower noise and a whiter spectrum, but both were at least 75 dB or so down. So my guess is your recording device has a problem of some kind. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
