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Re: PC Sound Quality affected by Background Programs

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If you believe these things can make a difference, then you must also concede the notion that FLAC sounds differently than WAV. Not because there is any loss of information with FLAC, we all know it's lossless, but playing a FLAC file invokes another dll process and requires substantial resources. So according to your theory, this could make it sound different.

I'm not sure I buy into that, but I do know for a fact that if I play FLAC files from foobar (using SRC), then I also need to increase the ASIO buffer settings (otherwise it stutters). When playing WAV files, I can leave the ASIO buffer at 0. So obviously, some resource bog down is happening.


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