RE: No easy answer - Tony Lauck - Digital Drive

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RE: No easy answer

In Reply to: No easy answer posted by mr.bear on July 7, 2012 at 19:36:09:

Lossy CODECs are not transparent. Neither are the higher rate PCM signals compared with the original analog feed, at least not anywhere near bit rates of 1.5 Mbps. However, if one defines "transparency" in terms of reproducing an already degraded signal, then the correct figure should be based on lossless compression, which compresses almost all audio streams by at least 40%. One can listen to Czech Radio in two channel 16 bit audio at 48 kHz and the data rate of the VBR FLAC encoded stream seldom goes above 900 kbps, even momentarily.

Thus the information loss for AC-3 is really only about 50%, not the 67% you suggest. I view this as an argument against using this compression, since this means there is really no big gain to be had by degrading the quality of audio. It is interesting to know that one of the inventors of peceptual coding does not use it personally.

Lossy compression may make sense for voice and background music. For an audiophile it is death.

Tony Lauck

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Topic - How much to spend on a DAC for Tivo - Bob S 05:54:51 07/07/12 (10)

RE: How much to spend on a DAC for Tivo - pictureguy 16:10:23 07/12/12 (0)

Tivo is for TV? video? then remember you need a surround decoder, not just a two channel DAC - Elizabeth 11:17:20 07/08/12 (3)

RE: Tivo is for TV? video? then remember you need a surround decoder, not just a two channel DAC - Bob S 15:32:45 07/08/12 (2)

RE: Tivo is for TV? video? then remember you need a surround decoder, not just a two channel DAC - Soundgarden 17:12:38 07/08/12 (1)

RE: It seems unlikely it couldn't be told to spit out PCM... - mr.bear 23:07:55 07/08/12 (0)

No easy answer - mr.bear 19:36:09 07/07/12 (3)

RE: No easy answer - Bob S 15:22:36 07/08/12 (0)

RE: No easy answer - Tony Lauck 06:55:10 07/08/12 (1)

RE: No easy answer - mr.bear 13:24:05 07/08/12 (0)

Would a Rega or Eastern Electric DAC be overkill for Tivo....Ummm Probably - Dynobot 13:14:09 07/07/12 (0)

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RE: No easy answer - Tony Lauck 06:55:10 07/08/12 (1)

RE: No easy answer - mr.bear 13:24:05 07/08/12 (0)

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