Thanks for that. Mnyb wrote: > No 24/96 is not enough for DoP . > > I concur with the idea to use flac as much as possible for the > transporter I suggest not to use the highest compression rates for 24/96 > something like -5 would do , Transporter can on rare occasions hiccup on > hard compressed flac files . > WILL DO. > > Do you already have such files ? Easy to fix flac them again with a > lower setting from the files you have . That's the Beaty of lossless . > WILL GO THROUGH MY FLACS, NOT A MASSIVE JOB, MY FILES MOSTLY AIFF. > > On server decoding helps with some rare MP3 ( well documented ) . Aiff > possibly needed for higher rates it is soo on Touch it does not play > 24/96 aiff . Alac TP does not play it Touch does but not hirez so server > transcoding needed . > > Flac and WAV works all the way to 24/96 unproblematic to use . However > the default setting in LMS is to server transcode wav to flac the > purpose is to save wifi bandwith it is a really good idea to keep it > that way . > > Flac files have much better tag support so there it is again . > > There simply is no need to transcode flac to pcm on the server . > > The file types setting are not really " quality settings " they are > there to handle odd cases where the default rules don't work such as NAS > boxes and software players or very odd radio channels . With a "normal" > server and a Transporter you can just leave them at the factory settings > , you can often create you own problems by changing them to much. > > I know that there is a shool of thought that server transcoding "sounds > better" but in fact the squeezeboxes outputs the exact same thing > electrically with every lossles format so whats on the outputs does not > change . if you " hear a difference " anyway when there is none. > I may suggest a properly conducted ABX test that should settle that and > make life and fiddling with LMS easier :) > And delete all reaplay gain tags in the flac files when doing ABX . > > I think a large amount of FUD around FLAC vs WAV comes from the fact > that FLAC can use replay gain tags ,these tells the player hardware to > play the files with a differen and in 99% of the case lower volume ! > that sound really different ! > > All gain functions can be turned off in the player settings , there are > many formats that use volume normalisation I prefer not to . > Also to guarantee bit perfect output to the DAC gain settings should be > off its not enough to have the volume at 100% > > Another venue for experimentation is to actually not use 100% volume > with the external ( or internal ) DAC on some recordings . Not all DAC's > handle intersample peaks well , this can be an issue with modern over > compressed loudness war recordings . > Intersample peak,or intersample,over is the term to Google .
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