ncarver;693616 Wrote: > > So let's be more precise and say we have two bit-identical audio/video > files stored within the same physical filesystem (i.e., same partition) > on some type of storage device on a computer. You really want to claim > that it is absolutely impossible for there to be any differences > between the two files that could lead to playback differences on that > computer? > > Really?? > >
Yes. It's called buffering (and caching on the disk controller). You don't stream bytes from the disk to the DAC. You read sectors (or more likely blocks) into memory. If there was a severe problem (disk is failing, for instance) you would get silent gaps between blocks, but not a degradation of the sound that does play. eric -- EricBergan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EricBergan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4746 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
