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!
I agree. How can two identical files not sound exactly the same? Can Guternberg explain the etiology of the difference he hears in these two files, and can he set up a repeatable demonstration which will conclusively proves that such differences exist? Lol on that one. This is typical of what the high end magazines are doing today. They take a piece of gear like squeezebox and damn it with faint praise. Yes, they'll tell you it sounds good "for the money" but no way it can compete with a multi killobuck transport, or so they would have you believe. But they dont demonstrate with measurements, or with convincing argument why they higher prices gear is going to sound better. They expect everyone to accept it as a matter of faith that higher priced gear creates better sound, even when it's only a transport presenting a bit perfect rendition of a digital file (both the high and low priced spread) to a DAC. Makes no sense whatsoever. Kinda like the BS around audio cables. -- Phoenix Media Room: VPI HW-19MK4,Cardas Heart Ruby, Fidelity Research Fr64s tonearm;SB3, Tact RCS 2.0, Benchmark Dac1; Audible Illusions Mk3; Two Bel 1001's Bridged; Aerial Accoustice 10ts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phoenix's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85280 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
