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He is not the first that made that comment so I was just verbalizing what I think every time I read or hear that. They are making an extrapolation from a fact. It is certainly a fact that decoding a FLAC increases processor overhead. (Fact) Therefore, decoded FLAC will sound worse than Raw WAV (extrapolation). They also assume that there is no cost to using a bigger file, but that will be dependent on where it is stored as well as Bus speed. No free lunches, just lunches that are assumed free. I do not assume that would produce any audible problem unless the file was absolutely huge and the bus speed was ludicrously slow.

I have a hard time believing that FLAC decoding causes significant processor overhead on a dedicated music server unless you are using this as your server.

not anymore.

Sometimes I'm a hot coed in my dreams, but that usually only occurs after someone tells me to go fuck myself.

Happy Birthday to you good sir.

The audioengine 5 definitely has a built-in ipod dock. I believe the audioengine 2 also has one but I am too lazy to check. I use the 5's in my office and every time I think I need to upgrade to better speakers I simply put on something I really like and the upgrade necessity disappears. Wish it would work for things other than speakers.

premature expectation?

Unlike users on head-fi, not all vaccinations are created equal.

Happy Yester-Penger-Day.

I agree. I reversed back to an electrical tape mod from a thicker gasket mod. That's where I am at now and I think I'll be staying there for a while.

Check the online store, their shipping is crazy fast and they may have one configured, you never know. I'm actually using the prev. gen Mac Mini with 2g of RAM at work and I have had no latency issues. But it is totally dedicated as a music server and I have not tried Amarra on it.

Well my McCormack MID arrived today but turned out to be am MHD (no speaker terminals). I asked specifically but I should have been tipped off with no image of the rear of the unit. You can't tell from the front as many MHD were used the same faceplate as the MID and were marked as MIDs in the front. But the sticker with the SN on the bottom clearly says MHD and there are no frickin speaker posts. Nasty email already sent to the dingledorf seller.

Nice amp and should match nicely with your speakers. Now what headphone amp/preamp could you be talking about??

Even better. Did you get it from Manco? He's a very nice guy in my limited experience with him.

I think you will like it

Ah, very good. I will soon be joining the collective.

The dark side can be resisted..

FTFY

Happy Birthday to the queen

No need to feel bad he actually made some valid points before the douche zombie took over his persona.

I guess linux makes you arrogant and naive Your understanding of how "systems" operate is trully superficial. You are assuming the real world, i.e. any real computer, fits the model of how it should work, perfectly, with no variation. I certainly hope you are not a systems engineer. I.e. in your example what affects the post office? It is a system, you think to linearly, think interactions man interactions.

QFT and my experience also.

Yeah, the math statement bothered me but I chalked it up to making it suitable for popular science. I read it as their mathematical model may not actually be the optimum model and ours is.

See now there is the key, the bit timing and the timing may also be affected by whatever else is being done by the processors. Also saying it is hardware and not software is way too simplistic as it is software AND hardware together not either or. The software may be integral in making sure the hardware gets enough resources to operate properly. So, especially for music, Bits are Bits unless they arrive at the wrong time and then they are other bits plus random variation ... now whether this is audible or not? I have no fucking idea as there are real biological thresholds plus variation about that mean.

Yep it is pretty obvious when you listen to it that they are doing something and my guess it has to do with timing or more precisely, timing tolerances. I say this based upon my experience back in my early TT days (early mid 70s). I never could find a TT that sounded right to me until I listened to a DD table. Turns out I was and am hypersensitive to speed variations and it was subtly annoying me. I could be ( and probably am totally) wrong but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Oh and it doesn't bother me that they are being obscure about exactly what they are doing because, as you said, if they told us, then anyone else could also do it.