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. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64972 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
