AndrewFG wrote: > If so, then it seems that there is a lot of digital processing going on > in real time, in at least two different CPUs, that gives plenty of > opportunities for rounding errors, timing errors, error correction > artifacts, and jitter to creep in. (Not to mention any prior artifacts > introduced by iTunes in the ripping process). > > Did anyone do proper end-to-end tests on the path CD - iTunes - alac - > flac - volume - dac in real time, real world conditions? Can one be > sure that the process is REALLY lossles? Any thoughts? >
Yeah, I get that all the time. Everytime I compress a ZIP file and send it over the world wide InterWeb with all those millions CPU's I get so many rounding errors and artifacts I can't even uncompress it. Better take this to Audiophile... That's where the real experts are. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
