Phil Leigh;427685 Wrote: > WAV is NOT superior. It's been tested to death (including by me). > Streaming WAV vs. FLAC makes no difference at all. None. This can be > measured. It has been measured. I'm not talking about the mathematical > identity here, I'm talking about the fact that they sound the same. Any > anecdotal evidence to the contrary is self-delusional twaddle. > > WAV is not more convenient for editing. Audacity edits FLAC just fine. > I have about 8 packages that can convert FLAC to anything. > > WAV is a waste of disk space and network bandwidth. It has a > rudimentary tagging method and moreover it has no standard wrapper for > hi-rez (>redbook). > > There is no case for WAV in the context of a discussion around SC.
Phil- Why do you feel compelled to be so argumentative and absolutist/bordering on nasty in your posts? Did it ever occur to you that others don't have the same personal preferences as you? That doesn't make them "wrong". As regards to the detail of your posts: 1)It actually can't be measured that they sound the same. There are wildly varying results on research about how much jitter people can hear. Some investigations put it a very low amounts. It can only be measured that the final output is the same. I know that the files are mathematically the same, but that still doesn't preclude the possibility that the algorithmic decompression of flac and its conversion involves additional jitter - jitter can be introduced in the stream that is converted to analogue from sources other than the bits in the file itself. If you don't know about this then you don't know what jitter is. If you have "proof" of the opposite - where is it? And BTW, read what I actually wrote, and don't send me "proof" that the two types of files are mathematically identical. 2)Never said WAV was superior. 3) Never said flac couldn't be edited 4)"waste of disk space and bandwidth" - whose? How does my use of Wav affect you? Why do you feel it is even necessary to make such a comment? By the way, among all my friends and aquaintances I'm the only one who uses FLAC. Most of them don't even have a software player/hardware player with a plugin for it. If you actually engaged the world outside of your head you might realize how limited the use of flac is. Not everyone is an audio/computer hobbyist. Some people just want to listen to music and don't want to bother with any technical issues. So sometimes I find it inconvenient to have everything encoded in a format that no one I interact with uses. Conversions from FLAC also take longer that conversions directly from WAV to other formats. I'm sorry if my reasons, "make no case" for discussing WAV - TO YOU. Why, just b/c I propose doing something YOU think makes no sense do you feel the need to attack? But the way you feel compelled to respond shows more about you than anything you write convinces about the supposedly "factual" case you make. Get a life - or some counseling. -- firedog ------------------------------------------------------------------------ firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57922 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
