In Reply to: WAV better than FLAC accoring to Absolute Sound.. posted by samoore on January 7, 2012 at 20:54:24:
Hi,
Well, let's see...
USB is worse than SPDIF according to them (in a correctly set up and implemented system the reverse is in fact true).
FLAC degrades Wave Files permanently (there is no evidence of this, as long as care is take to remove other variables such as disk fragmentation for the un-flacéd file).
Their batting average is not going up.
If one was willing to see things negative one may be tempted to conclude that they have agenda to make computer based audio appear as "not high end"...
I think it is just down to the people who write these articles being completely clueless when it comes to Computer Audio (or computers) though.
Time for TAS to hire some writers who know their way around computers.
Their UK sister publication HiFi+ seems to be doing rather better and seems to have by far less beruehrungs angst when it comes to Computers and Audio.
Ciao T
Thor
At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?
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- RE: WAV better than FLAC accoring to Absolute Sound.. - Thorsten 02:49:11 01/08/12 (8)
- "correctly set up and implemented system" - what would be an example of such? - carcass93 11:59:19 01/11/12 (2)
- RE: "correctly set up and implemented system" - what would be an example of such? - Thorsten 12:53:34 01/17/12 (0)
- +1 -t - Sordidman 17:25:23 01/11/12 (0)
- HiFi+? - fmak 07:20:27 01/08/12 (4)
- RE: HiFi+? - Bob_C 19:37:21 01/08/12 (3)
- RE: HiFi+?Have you - fmak 23:59:32 01/08/12 (1)
- RE: HiFi+?Have you - Bob_C 10:08:09 01/09/12 (0)
- RE: HiFi+? - Beetlemania 21:36:51 01/08/12 (0)