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RE: Precisely..

Posted by kgiessler (A) on May 28, 2007 at 20:34:56

In Reply to: Precisely.. posted by rick_m on May 28, 2007 at 20:22:10:

How about a better analogy then.

A poster posts to audioasylum and says "I'm going to start buying media. I'm either going to buy all 16bit/44.1khz CDs, or I'm going to buy all DVD-Audio and SACD or whatever hi res format is available. Which do I choose, I don't buy this hi-res format stuff"

And somebody posts and says "I've found that on my Mark Levinson No 39 normal CDs sound better than the either DVD-Audio or SACD when I play it on my Marantz DV6400"

Are we supposed to chalk it up to the fact that hi res formats are hogwash, or to the fact that the person playing them hasn't figured something out yet? Its pretty easy to see.

In the case of hi res formats, you *could* make a subjective argument if you wanted to.

In lossless compression, you simply cant. No matter what, you will be able to get your original data back. You can do a checksum, it can be verified. In fact it has been verified. It is lossless. You get the same data back.

As for playback, we can debate that. But as to whether or not lossless is lossless, well, its lossless.

I know this much...he'll start ripping that data, and presumably keep it for some time, probably through many computer changes. Whatever is lacking in his playback computer now will catch up with his files.

I made the mistake 5 years ago of going to MP3 instead of monkey's audio. I did it because of expense of storage. Now, I wish I had compromised to have a smaller collection of music so that I wouldn't have to go back and rip thousands of CD's again to get them in FLAC.

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