Stratmangler;501026 Wrote: > > I also cannot hear any differences between wav and flac files. I have > played around unpacking flacs to wavs and packing wavs up to flacs and > listening to them - I'm buggered if I can detect any differences. >
I haven't tried any such test, but I am puzzled why anyone would be puzzled about why there COULD be such a difference. The answer, in the digital world, is always "jitter". More processing has to be done to decode the FLAC file than to play the WAV, and it's easy to see in principle how that could lead to higher jitter, even to signal-correlated jitter (the worst), or to various sorts of nasties getting into the power supply, or who knows what. In principle, it could even be the other way around. You can imagine some device that buffers the output when decoding FLAC but not when streaming WAV, and that could lead to better timing on output. Whether any of that is in fact going on here, I have no idea. But I do know that the digital outputs on the Transporter are VASTLY superior to those on the Receiver. I'd have been perfectly happy to spend less money on the latter and spend the difference on a new cartridge (say), but the improvement with the Transporter difference was sufficient to justify the additional expense. -- rgheck SqueezeboxServer on a 350MHz Pentium II running Centos 5.x with 1.5TB Transporter --> Adcom GDA-600 --> Pass Labs B1 (DIY) --> Adcom GFA-5800 --> Thiel CS 1.6s Transporter --> Pass Labs D1 --> Pass Labs Aleph 2s --> Thiel CS 1.6s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgheck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25803 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
