Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "_measure_".
2012 Mar 11
2
uncompressed FLAC
On 3/10/2012 at 11:18 PM yahoo2 at rcn.com wrote:
|FLAC uncompressed is just rather a dumb idea (IMHO) because all you
end
|up wityh is a file that is rather large and will be larger then the
|original WAV because of the FLAC container and metadata. Why would you
|want FLAC uncompressed when compressed FLAC will not sound any
different
|because it isn't different. It's exactly the same
2012 Mar 12
1
uncompressed FLAC
...27 PM, Mike. <the.lists at mgm51.com> wrote:
|>??Some people feel that the
|> extra CPU power required to de-compress a FLAC file causes the
timing
|> issues in the audio samples going to the DAC.
|
|This isn't something you have to "feel", it's something you could
|_measure_??? far more precisely than anyone could hope to hear.
|
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I agree. Much of the FLAC vs. WAV discussion is based upon nebulous
"feelings", even when it is possible to get hard measurements.
Another that I like was in The Absolute Sound magazine. Starting with
a WA...
2012 Mar 11
0
uncompressed FLAC
...at 12:27 PM, Mike. <the.lists at mgm51.com> wrote:
>?Some people feel that the
> extra CPU power required to de-compress a FLAC file causes the timing
> issues in the audio samples going to the DAC.
This isn't something you have to "feel", it's something you could
_measure_? far more precisely than anyone could hope to hear.
To whatever extent that were true, it would also be true of 1000 other
possible CPU load sources, including operating systems busywaiting on
the disk, differences in display device drivers, etc. In fact,
considering how massively slow disk IO...