Originally Posted by Ronnie
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You continue to say that I'm confusing "file types and communication mode"...........I am not
I can but direct you to your own statements earlier today that show that you are:
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Surely Streaming PCM over Ethernet between the SqueezeCentre and the Touch leaves that Stream more susceptible to Jitter than the Flac stream? ...Therefore, sending Flac files to the Touch minimizes a potential source of Jitter and should be the preferred option???
There is NO jitter in an an ethernet transfer - what could be simpler than that, and what could be a more obvious misunderstanding of the way these rthings work than your statement?

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Getting the Lossless File (rather than PCM) as near as possible to its eventual Decoding has Jitter minimization advantages over PCM.
No it doesn't - why on earth should it? Ethernet transfer is asynchronous and jitter free. Zero can't be better than zero. Jitter is a meaningless concept for ethernet traffic.

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In the simplest way that I can make it............

a) Rawlander and a good number of others have experienced INFERIOR SOUND when the Server Decode is enabled

b) A good number on SB Forums have speculated that this can only be down to Increased Jitter from the SB Client SPDIF Outputs as everything else remains the same

c) If b) holds up, then they further speculate that as the SB Client is receiving PCM, then something must be happening that is causing the SB Client to have higher Jitter at its OUTPUT
This is just building unwarranted speculation on top of unwarranted speculation. Why on earth would receiving decoded data in asynchronous ethernet packets at the input lead to more jitter at the output. It makes no sense at all.

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