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In Reply to: Rebit posted by The Sound Guy on September 27, 2005 at 00:24:40:
So which bits its losing and why and when, that's not something that is going to be readily available. We're told it's adaptive, and won't go below 16 bits. Or you can set a hard limit minimum, per channel, anywhere between 16 and 23 bits.Again, not every recording uses it because it isn't mandatory. By default, from what I can see, the encoder has it off. But since it's encoded in the stream and not flagged, there's no real way to tell if a particular MLP track has been "re-bitted".
Theoretically, it could be "lossless" in that it simply truncates unused zeroes. But I don't think that's how it works. If so, why would the encoder allow thresholds to be set? If it were still lossless, wouldn't it make the maximum-without-loss choice every time?
So I don't think ReBit is lossless. I certainly could do a quick encode and decode and compare if folks were interested. I'm not sure how cool Meridian would be about that though. I wonder if there's any language like that in the licensing agreement. I'd hope not. I'll have to look at that, too, but I don't see how a compare would be a breach of that.
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Follow Ups
- Well, it's proprietary... - Michi 01:07:39 09/27/05 (11)
- Bingo -- it's lossy. - Michi 01:17:52 09/27/05 (10)
- It depends... - Frank.. 14:24:09 09/27/05 (0)
- " I've never had an MLP FIFO failure so I've never had to turn the damn thing on." = lossless. n.t. - Martin419 03:40:14 09/27/05 (8)
- So you're saying nobody ever has had to? Are you just stupid.. - Michi 09:48:52 09/27/05 (7)
- OK, from Meridian's Mr Stuart himself . . . - Martin419 10:48:09 09/27/05 (6)
- What the hell does that have to do with ReBit? - Michi 12:08:50 09/27/05 (5)
- Let's move on if this horse has been beaten to death? - Chris Garrett 16:04:05 09/27/05 (1)
- OK, Point taken Chris :) n.t. - Martin419 07:46:38 09/28/05 (0)
- Re: What the hell does that have to do with ReBit? - Martin419 13:21:04 09/27/05 (2)
- Martin the maximum playing time of 6 Channel SACD is 74 minutes with NO Dynamic Range reduction. - Teresa 14:23:33 09/28/05 (1)
- Whatever . . . . Teresa nt. - Martin419 14:45:42 09/28/05 (0)
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