The tragic thing about these HiFi reviewers who diss "computer-based"
playback and lossless compression is that they don't appear to
appreciate a couple of basic facts:

1. A CD player *is* a computer. It's got a CPU, some support chips, an
operating system (of sorts), and it moves digital data around. It
happens to use a spinning optical disc as its data source instead of a
spinning magnetic disk.

2. The data on a CD is as much encoded as a losslessly compressed file.
8-to-14 modulation (as found on CDs) and whatever algorithms are used by
the likes of FLAC and ALAC are just different ways of storing digital
information in a convenient format.


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