I've listened and I'm afraid your samples just prove the previous point that the artefacts are swamped by the noise floor of a typical non-audiophile sound system. Yes I can hear the artefacts very clearly when I turn up my amp way beyond where I would normally listen. But at normal listening levels I can't hear the -75dB track at all above the normal noise from my amp and I can barely hear the -45dB track let alone the artefacts.
Most of my music is in MP3 ~200kbps VBR at the moment and I have never heard these artefacts in normal listening. They are quite distinctive when you can hear them, but I never have heard them. I'm guessing that if you listened to a lot of classical music with very quiet but not silent sections then you would have more chance of hearing it in real life, but you'd have to have a much quieter amp than mine for it to be noticable. The bug should obviously be fixed, but it is unlikely that many people are actually suffering because of it. I'm moving to FLAC now anyway, I don't really see a good reason for sticking with MP3 nowadays (though I still have to generate MP3s for my empeg). I now SC has all sorts of transcoding options, though typically to transcode to MP3. Is it possible to get it to transcode from MP3 to FLAC ? At least then those few people who are really affected (MP3 users, with very good amps and music with quiet passages) could have an easy work-around without having to convert all their MP3s. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40409 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
