George,

There is nothing wrong in what I said; I described what the ID40 does, its operation as conveyed to me from two Meridian dealers. Please don't extrapolate and spin this it to something that I did not say ie. �FLAC reduces jitter�.

For clarification; the point of my post was to illustrate that the ID40 avoids the introduction of jitter by avoiding SPDIF; and by virtue of its design decoding FLAC (or �decoding� WAV if you like or any other asynchronous lossless format) within the processor enables it to output audio data �natively� and jitter free directly on to the 861�s (808.3s) internal bus.

I did not state or even imply that FLAC itself was responsible for this.

I hope you now understand what I said and did not say on this topic.


Regards,
Carl

Last edited by Carl; 2010-12-04 07:27. Reason: For the avoidance of doubt - PCM changed to WAV
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