rgheck;501640 Wrote: > Well, that would be the kind of information that was clearly relevant > here. As I said, I do not know about the design. > > That said, How much memory is there in a Receiver? Enough to buffer the > whole song? And store the FLAC itself? I rather suspect, though of > course I could be wrong, that the FLAC is being streamed and conversion > is being done on the fly. Still, as you say, it may well be that there's > not enough (additional) activity plausibly to make a difference, though > that's hard to say for sure. If the conversion process is consuming CPU > cycles, maybe it could occasionally be consuming them at just the wrong > moment, with the result that you get timing errors in the data being fed > to the DACs (again, I'm assuming one processor is doing both jobs and > being scheduled by the kernel). But these would probably be random and > hence appear as mere noise, and not very much. > > FYI, my CDs are all ripped as FLAC; I'm not rushing off to do the > WAV-FLAC comparison; and my system is about as tweak-free as it could > be. Well, as you say, the FLAC is streamed and conversion is on-the-fly. There's a possibility that there's a slight peak "at the wrong moment", but, I doubt (as you also agree) that this could possibly do something more than any other CPU activity, or a slight noise if you prefer. In other words, this should cause no more problem than -for instance- paging through the library.
Out of topic, I'm amazed that nobody has come to say that browsing degrades signal... :D -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Cyrus 8xp - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 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
