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Originally Posted by scottmandue
I gotta ask... with the talk of "loss less" burning how much fidelity do you lose by streaming over WIFI or Bluetooth?
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To my understanding, WIFI and Bluetooth are data stream transmission pipelines - they don't know what is going through them, nor do they affect the end result. They are just pipelines for accurate data transmission. What is critical to fidelity is the encoding to digital on the front end and the decoder chip/circuit in the receiving device that changes it back from Digital to Analog - the DAC. Then, of course, there are the amp and speakers...
There has been a move toward greater digital sampling for higher fidelity in digitizing and streaming - HD Tracks, Tidal, the PONO player, etc.
So basically, my collection of 57,000 flac songs sounds as good as if I were playing CDs through an expensive CD player. It is just more easy and more convenient to make playlists, find songs, play albums, etc..