[vorbis] Lossless/lossy hybrid?

[fungus]

Wilson wrote:
> 
> I would infer that DAC design is possibly
> harder than landing a man on the moon.
> 

If you take all the components in the process from CD --> ear,
(ie. CD Player, cables, amp, speakers, room accoustics, etc.)
and give them a relative value, then I believe the DAC will
score pretty low. *Very* much less important than all the other
factors.

As for the difficulty of building a DAC which can reproduce
a 44.1 kHz signal with 16 bit samples, I believe it's vastly
overstated by audio "experts".

I've personally sat in a million dollar recording studio
and listened to music played back over a $25 PC sound card
connected via a $0.02 jack plug (not gold plated). It didn't
sound too bad...

(...and AFAIK they're still using that same PC/sound card
 to listen to sound files).


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