Have read the up a bit more on it , it seems like its a high risk that the AES paper behind this is junk science , missunderstanding the Gibbs effect again , using contorted test to fit pre existing beliefs about filter ripple . Their clams are not uncontested.
Also evident is that it is a lossy system , this is not lossles anymore . That would not matter much in 24 bit you would not hear that . If you think that the HF content >20kHz is so important that you can scrap the losslesnes of the signal why not use OGG or any other lossy codec that can support 96kHz sample rate . It can be used in 16 bit signals too .... I can see the interest from the streaming industry , if the format has other properties that facilitates streaming and is lossy ( that would be liked by record companies ) it's good for them . It would be interesting to see if a high end company actually will be able to market a lossy system to audiophiles :) I'll stop ranting about it now . What matters is how the Tidal service will implement this and if and how it will effect the solutions we have for Tidal . It's good to hear that it can be used in flac with probably only an insignificant detoriation of SQ even on non MQA equipment Also if other services will implement it , we might have to deal with it somehow . But if the signal can be like HDCD ignored by equipment not supporting it then we might not need to deal with at all , we have our music anyway . Then the old question about content content and content if there is only a slim selection off audiophile chestnuts it will not succeed . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
