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Audiophiles have moved beyond that stage. Today they are debating the difference between FLAC files and WAV files, and "audiophile-grade" audio players fully de
by 21 10y ago
Audiophiles have moved beyond that stage. Today they are debating the difference between FLAC files and WAV files, and "audiophile-grade" audio players fully decode the FLAC file in memory before playing it, into a single continuous memory region (obviously, continuous in user-space, in kernel space it can still be "fragmented", but this is too subtle for current day)
- copperx 10y agoI hope you are joking.
- AimHere 10y agoI suspect he isn't. Have yourself a giggle at these guys discussing the finer points of FLAC vs Wav sound quality (to be fair, some of them do make sensible points about the ability to tag files and whathaveyou, but still...) http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/flac-vs-wav-audio-quality http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/flac-vs-wav-audio-quality
- nitrogen 10y agoThe only possible way there's a difference is if the CPU used to decode a FLAC file changes the noise emitted by the computer or puts noise on the DAC's power supply that affects its clock stability or raises the noise floor.