Phil Leigh;525509 Wrote: > You are correct - FLAC is deliberately asymmetric so it is expensive to > encode and cheaper to decode. > > Lossless Compression (which is all that FLAC ever does...) @ 44% sounds > good to me at level zero for certain types of music. The amount of > compression achievable depends heavily on the nature of the music. > > Try a comparison of a heavy symphonic piece with a light aria or > quartet...
Thanks - I am relieved. One remaining issue is with inconsistent EAC setup advice I have downloaded from various sources. On the most crucial setting, "drive options" I tick secure rip but some advice says that "accurate stream" must be ticked and C2 not; others say to tick what meets the characteristics of your CD drive. I'm using an old (but unused) Plextor 230A which I have configured for a SATA PC. Stuff I read regarding a test of its ability to avoid errors on rips said that it performed better than almost any other drive that had been similarly test albeit a fairly small group. Apparently the Plextor 230A has caching and C2 error reporting. One set of advice says I should tick the C2 and caching boxes. The other that I should not tick C2 (implies this disables it but does it?) and that "accurate stream" must be ticked. Only one can be correct does someone here know which is it? -- Mark Scanlan MarkS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Scanlan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76217
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