ncarver;693616 Wrote: > I don't understand "history of the content." By that you mean which one > came first, etc.? > > 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?? > > I would suggest that you might want to think a bit harder, or perhaps > study how large files actually get stored in filesystems. Hint: ever > had to defragment a filesystem? Even if two files are bit-identical, > they may not be stored in exactly the same way in the filesystem. One > may be nearly contiguous, while the other may be scattered among a set > of relatively small blocks. > > Certainly it would be possible to store a sequence of copies of a file > in a filesystem so that the successive copies are increasingly > fragmented, and this fragmentation could potentially cause increasing > playback problems in the copies based on their generation. I myself > have absolutely encountered situations where some multimedia files > played fine while others--created later--did not, precisely because the > filesystem (NTFS) was becoming increasingly fragmented. Defragmenting > the filesystem fixed the problems (though the machine was unusable for > a couple of hours!). > > While I too doubt TAS' claims--and the mere fact of some files being > "copies" of others is irrelevant--it is definitely NOT IMPOSSIBLE that > one might experience increasing playback issues with successive copies > made on a fragmented filesystem. While I think it UNLIKELY that the > scenario I laid out is what happened to TAS, rebutting their claims was > worthy of a bit more than simply sniggering at their stupidity and > calling them names.
I've already explained the only possible circumstance in which this MIGHT be an issue and that is noise generated by hard disk affecting a DAC that is electrically close by. None of which has (thank heavens) anything to do with SB players/users unless you are using a Touch with attached USB disk... They are stupid and I ain't retracting nothing. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 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
