911324 wrote:when importing cd to itunes. which is better apple losless or aiff?
muypogi wrote:911324 wrote:when importing cd to itunes. which is better apple losless or aiff?
If you live in an apple ecosystem, ALAC (apple lossless) is the best. Pero dumdami na rin yung 3rd party support ng ALAC. Olive music units I think support lossless.
egay wrote:muypogi wrote:911324 wrote:when importing cd to itunes. which is better apple losless or aiff?
If you live in an apple ecosystem, ALAC (apple lossless) is the best. Pero dumdami na rin yung 3rd party support ng ALAC. Olive music units I think support lossless.
Moy,
In my system*, I first ran all new rips in ALAC, and then I also tried AIFF, suddenly the ALAC sounded thin and steely and really below par than AIFF.
so now I re-ripped my stuffs to AIFF... about 300 albums. I still maintained my 'old' MP3s because these are just what my iPod (and Mac Pro via iTunes) can play. I have FLACs and WAVs playing through my media center.
Besides Computer Audiophile, I really liked Empirical Audio's approach to digital music : http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/
I hope this helps.
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*iPod & MacPro on Cambridge Audio iD100 Dock through ARC DAC7 via AES/EBU and an ARC system.
I found tht switching DACs had a bigger effect vs changing from ALAC to AIFF.
muypogi wrote:+1 on the DAC change. FInally had a chance to listen to the 1st gen X-DAC that I bought for a planned second system. Was pleasantly surprised that the X-DAC was very musical and more than held its own vs my current 32-bit Fostex DAC. Not as revealing, but the music was "bilog", for lack of a better term and was quite very pleasant to listen to. Listened to my ALAC/AAC files, instead of cueing up my table . . .
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