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| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Al - First, I agree that proper setup of the PC is necessary, including not letting the CPU performance fluctuate, as you point out. I should have added the caveat the the PC is well set up, which I agree is not always the case.I agree that there ... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF The idea that the FLAC decoder produces wrong numbers is just not credible. People have repeatedly shown that the compression/decompression algorithms works. And, computers very, very seldom make computing mistakes. If each time you opened a sprea... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF "Malfunction"? Are you saying that the 16/24 bit data for each sample is incorrect? That the data that comes out of a flac decode is different that the wav data? | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Steve - It seems like what you are describing is a timing problem that comes from the competing flac decoding and audio stack processes. How does that timing issue get passed to the DAC. As I understand it, the async USB is suppose to control the ... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF First, sorry for moving the discussion to the age old jitter, timing discussion.Steve - I do understand everything that is going on. I belive the flac codec is filling a buffer, in my case the memory buffer for J River. I am assuming that J River ... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Steve - I am using flac files, running J River from memory and with less than 5% CPU usage on Windows 7 and an async USB converter. Do you still think that the PC cannot keep up with a async USB converter in that case? I would guess J River can ke... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Al - I agree that minimizing system changes is a good practice, as is removing unnecessary software and processes. I take a different route from many - I use a Netbook with Windows 7 Starter. There are very few processes running, not even virus so... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF My assumption is that with any of these formats, the bits being delivered are the same and timing is the real issue. I agree that in the past it was likely that a lot of activity on the PC could affect the sound, mostly because of timing (jitter) ... | |
| Naim Nait 5i-2 for Totem Sttaf We went with the Naim for driving the Sttafs. The system is my sister-in-laws and she lives in Geneva, Switzerland, so I have not heard the system, except over the phone. She is very pleased with it. I need to get over there to listen to it. We sh... | |
| Why does Cary Audio keep discontinuing good amps? Casouza - who knows why those 2 failed. If this was such a terrible design I am surprised that the boards are not full of stories of failure. Other than your account, I would only find one other person who reported such a problem and that was 3 ye... | |
| Why does Cary Audio keep discontinuing good amps? Casouza - I have not heard about a lot of rectifier tube failures in the SLP 05. Are you talking for a theoretical point of view or are there a whole lot of poeple out their with failures on the SLP 05? Any references to such failures? | |
| Totem and Bel Canto? How about a Naim Nait 5i? Naim and Totem are a good match. | |
| Why does Cary Audio keep discontinuing good amps? As Russe41 said, Had is not in charge anymore. The new leadership is trying to streamline the offerings. My guess is they are dropping things that do not sell very well, have too low margins or are difficult to make, possibly because of parts issu... | |
| Dedicated listening room design For information on soundproofing, take a look at the Soundproofing Company website. They have quite a few articles on soundproofing techniques and can give you good advice regarding resilient channel and green glue. Resilient channel certainly wor... | |
| Building a Music Server that will play all formats Dhl93449 - the article you linked to is one of many possible solutions. There are lots of people who have built very good computer based systems without building a system like Chris' system. Using a quality player along with an async USB connectio... |