Henry66;607150 Wrote: > See Steve Guttenberg's article: 'Does lossless audio guarantee good > sound?' (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20029913-47.html) > > He writes a lot of stuff that I completely agree with, but then ends > with this: "-So while lossless audio compression (FLAC or Apple > Lossless for example) can be "expanded" to produce an exact digital > duplicate of the original audio stream, that's not necessarily the same > thing as sounding exactly like an uncompressed WAV file or a CD.-" > > Aaargh!
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