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RE: Lossless Compression vs. .WAV audio quality ?

Hi.

My 2 cent.

One more time discussing this issue.

Yesterday I did some testing on my Linux machine.
I experienced approx. 10% higher CPU consumption for .flac decoding,
while pure PCM streaming directly to the output (no - we don't need
ASIO or KS in Linux) didn't really show any differences on CPU
performance.

Now, if you follow -let's call it the "CICS"-logic, meaning the more you got going on on the PC the more distortion you'll experience, which is pretty much valid for rather poorly implemented DACs (actually the majority of DACs), then you might guess that there must be some truth behind the audible difference wav vs. flac claimed by quite a number of people including me.

Looking forward to the next discussion about this issue.

Cheers.

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