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As regards whether the ID40 receives the FLAC File or not, have a look at Carl's post below
Is there any reason why we both would be misleading people here.........or why Meridian would be misleading us??
Hi Ronnie,
From my own investigations (discussions with dealers) I concur with your explanation.
The ID40 card is an active Sooloos network device running its own firmware that is independent from its host (808.3/861v6); enabling it to buffer and decode the streamed FLAC files and then output directly on to the internal Meridian system bus. This results in effectively reducing jitter to that of host architecture of the new 800 series, which we are told by Meridian is now at negligible levels.
The datasheet also supports this .....
[quote=1D40 Datasheet]Rendering audio streamed directly from the Sooloos Digital Media System internally and passing high-quality digital audio directly on to the 808.3 or 861 V6`s digital backplane enables the realisation of the highest audio quality Sooloos solution.
Regards,
Carl
The posts from the Dealers are there too if you take the time to find them. I know what they say, but you don't seem willing to accept that [/quote]
And FLAC has nothing to do with the jitter part. It's all the same if it was WAV or FLAC. It's jitter free either way. If Carl thinks FLAC is responsible then he is wrong too. But that quote does not really imply it one way or the other. But could be read it that way. And if Carl meant FLAC is even partially responsible it's incorrect.
The key phrase in that quote, which is correct, is "enabling it to buffer". It could buffer WAV just as well and have the same jitter performance. And this is not quite the same as a FIFO buffer in processors that have no control over buffer overrun or underrun.
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