Subj : Are there any audiophiles left here?
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Jan 01 2022 08:54:00

Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Saturday 01.01.22 - 14:35, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 BF>>> ..There's a long chain of possible POF on the way
 AA>>                                     ^^^
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 WvV> Points Of Failure

Thx.

 AA>> FLAC also has various levels of compression too. Maybe
 AA>> you could adjust that to get closer to the non-
 AA>> discernable difference that you seek.

 WvV> Flac is a lossless encoder, so the compression level
 WvV> doesn't matter for the audio quality. It just influences
 WvV> how much cpu cycles are spent on encoding and decoding
 WvV> and the resulting file size.

Ah..  Interesting.

BTW, my PC's can't seem to play FLAC files directly (via VLC  
player) The playback stops/stalls every few seconds.  But if I  
convert to AppleLossless, the playback is much better (iTunes).

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