because of the design means that 96/24 is supposed to approximate linear
96/24. It does not because of the nasty mp3 like encoder sitting in front
of the output - but it is the best that can be done with a primarily lossy
format . This format now how changed to include a "MLP" like core that is
lossless. DTS-MA
The question is and still unanswered to the audio transcoders' out there -
is 96/24 transcoded faithfully or are we transcoding 48/16? How do we know?
Then we will know about what is lost. Also see my previous references on
hardware encoding of DTS and how it is better.
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From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Chris Lueders
Sent: 12 May 2011 21:43
To: SurroundSound
Subject: [SurroundSound] Re: Chicago Transit Authority - Quad DVD release
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On May 12, 7:35 pm, scolumbo <sacolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding of the FLAC format is there is no transcoding being
> done at all. FLAC is a codec that uses a lossless algorithm to
> compress a file and with the appropriate decoder is then decompressed
> to an original identical copy of the audio data. If the file is a DTS
> (lossy) file, compressing and decompressing the file should have no
> affect on the quality of the original file. FLAC is a container format
> that merely makes the file size smaller (losslessly), no different
> than zipping a file would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac
You're missing the point here. Of course the data is not changed, but you're
passing off a lossy rip as lossless because FLAC is primarily a lossless
codec (not a container in the sense that WAV is) and is thus traditionally
used to losslessly archive CD format or better, not lossy sources. What
you're suggesting is the same as if you would transcode an MP3 to WAV. Sure,
WAV is just a container and may contain any kind of sound data. But does it
make sense? No. Btw, dts is already inside a wav container most of the time,
so just rename it to xy.dts.wav if you must.
Besides, the space gain is little and you lose the ability to hardware
decode the DTS stream AFAIK when you stream from FLAC to a receiver.
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