Originally Posted by Carl
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� PCM 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

Why you addressing ME. Ronnie dragged it up and I said I don't know what you meant for sure by it. What I said is I could see someone misreading it AND DID. But to be honest I still think someone could put spin on your statement above. Some folks manage to find crevices and misread things. To make it absolutely clear I would include WAV as another asynchronous lossless format. I like to reserve the term "PCM" for when it's clocked out of the internal ID40 memory or out over SPDIF in a SB memory. In otherwords PCM == Synchronous and FLAC/WAV == Asynchronous. Because WAV should not be thought of as "PCM" (that's my own pet pieve), just a file format for storing samples (just like FLAC). When it gets down to non packet based protocal then I like to call it PCM (raw 16bit samples). It helps keep you head on straight. PCM goes over busses, SPDIF etc. WAV, FLAC goes over ethernet.

The reason I said someone, might read it wrong is because you lumped the magic word FLAC just before jitter. Not a good idea.

Just say as you did here "any other asynchronous lossless format" (which includes WAV and FLAC) and makes NO DIFFERENCE jitter, ID40 could work with either.

I also quoted parts of your original post as what I believe your intent was and said that was correct "allows it to buffer".

It was Ronnies misinterpretation I was addressing. And the possible outside chance he was right in what HE thought you were trying say. He was incorrect and I suspected you understood how things work. And he just misread it when he saw FALC and jitter in the same sentence.

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