gharris999;643333 Wrote: > With regular 'ol 16b 44.1khz redbook, I've never known flac -8 to be a > problem with my Transporter, SB3, SBBoom, SBRadio or SBTouch. Because > I use flacs with embedded cuesheets, SBS 7.5x and earlier always > streamed flac -0 to the players anyway because of transcoding. My > SBReceiver seemed to have trouble with even that...but the SBR always > struck me as the slow-learner in the class. > > Having been using SBS 7.6 beta since shortly after the branch was > created (i.e. for more than a year), the flac -8 has been streaming > nativly to the players and (with the exception of the SBR) I've never > noticed any problems. > > But I'm not really disagreeing with Phil here. Flac -0 or flac -5 will > provide you with a bit of insurance. You'll spend much less time (and > money too, if time == money) moving your audio library to a larger hard > disc than you would re-flacing the collection to down-compress from 8 to > 5.
As I said, the problem only affects some hi-res (e.g 24/96)... sometimes... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81590 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
