In Reply to: FLAC Degrades sound quality permanently posted by Mercman on January 5, 2012 at 16:11:41:
But IMO, that alone does not preserve playback fidelity.......When a signal is first digitized, the jitter signature of the original digitized signal is *not* perfect. If the original jitter signature is not altered, I think the playback will yield the best fidelity. But if the jitter is altered, or even lowered, the deviation from the original jitter signature degrades the sound.
If lossless compression were to be applied, the jitter signature would be totally changed. The jitter might not necessarily be worse (as measured), but just changed altogether. This could explain why lossless compression algorithms such as FLAC does not satisfy some listeners.
Edits: 01/06/12
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