In Reply to: RE: FLAC Degrades sound quality permanently posted by Archimago on January 9, 2012 at 15:45:54:
On my computer decoding a 44/16 FLAC file and converting it to WAV, combined, took less than 0.5% of the time (greater than 200x real time including formatting and saving a WAV file). This is less than 1/10th the processing power required to upsample, so if the FLAC conversion were doing damage it's highly likely the upsampling would be also, and therefore any steps taken to improve processor performance or prevent processing from polluting a crummy DAC would apply 10x to the upsampling process. (Numbers are for an Intel Core i5 650@3.2 Ghz processor).
If one believes that FLAC degrades sound, then one can still save all one's library in FLAC format, as it will take only about 20 seconds to convert an entire album from FLAC back to WAV.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: FLAC Degrades sound quality permanently - Tony Lauck 15:56:03 01/09/12 (2)
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