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In Reply to: Argh posted by Scrith on June 3, 2007 at 13:15:29:
*** Oh well, I guess we get to keep living with those who have the seemingly ridiculous notion that FLAC playback sounds different than WAV until I find some other comparison mechanism. :( ***
Here I was thinking it's great that someone has an open mind, but this line now makes me suspect you are only interested in debunking theories you don't believe in. Sigh :-(
Anyway, my thoughts on this are: suppose that FLAC playback sounds different from WAV due to changes in jitter, EMI/RFI, whatever. Note: I am not claiming this is 100% true, but it seems plausible.
Then any attempt to measure this difference using software based ABX switching will affect jitter, EMI/RFI etc. So in other words you are changing what you are trying to measure.
Maybe better to have two identical machines side by side - one playing FLAC, the other playing WAV, and have a friend randomly switch between the two. But then you are likely to encounter differences between the machines, which may be greater than the difference between FLAC and WAV playback.
I don't think you will be able to easily prove or disprove the hypothesis. So relax and enjoy the music.
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Follow Ups
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - Christine Tham 14:33:21 06/03/07 (4)
- RE: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - fmak 22:22:07 06/03/07 (3)
- How it started, thoughts on the test, etc. - Scrith 14:02:39 06/04/07 (2)
- RE: How it started, thoughts on the test, etc.-Problem Is - fmak 02:25:31 06/05/07 (0)
- ABX and ear training - Christine Tham 14:23:24 06/04/07 (0)
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