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Anyone catch 7 Myths of Digital at AXPONA?

Did anyone see Arjuna Das at AXPONA yesterday?  His talk 7 Myths of Digital Audio Dispelled?

He gave such insights as "ALAC sounds better on Mac, FLAC sounds better on Windows" and "streaming sounds the worst." (Paraphrasing on the latter).

He seemed to have a handle on DAC engineering, so some of these superstitions seemed odd coming from him. Seemed like a nice enough guy so I didn't want to debate during his talk. 

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He said it would be on YouTube since no PA hard to hear.

I haven't looked for it yet, Mojo Audio.

 

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Well, there was some knowledge there but it was laden with BS, including that old trope about uncompressed wav sounding better than FLAC or ALAC.  I asked if that was true with Roon's architecture of decoding on one machine then streaming to another, and that's when he dropped that "streaming sounds the worst."

I got the sense that he may know DACs but didn't understand the rest of the digital environment.  I was just a bit surprised by the either the lack of knowledge or the willingness to spout untruths.  I guess that is high end audio...about as much truth as a Kremlin press conference.  

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