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RE: Buffering

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Do you know what EMI/RFI is and how it might affect the operation of a DAC?
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May I ask a related question? How do you know how the player, being one of the many processes running on the general-purpose OS like windows, which you have no control over due to its proprietary and closed nature, consuming a tiny fraction of the overall momentary CPU/memory/busses (the update of the player GUI takes most likely more resources than the actual real-time audio playback, incl. decoding from flac) affects the overall EMI/RFI level on the vast range of PC hardware people use here on a consistent basis to be able to state which player sounds better? IMO everything matters, but the actual player process effect on the resultant EMI/RFI noise cannot be consistently recoqnized on as complex OS as windows with graphical interface and tens of other running processes and threads, where many are most likely not listed in any API available to programmers outside of microsoft. Yet many recommendations are being presented as a generally working truth.

The same level is distinguishing the sound of bit-perfect and correctly coded players playing from RAM by compiler version. Or another statement arising in this type of threads: drivers compiled by different compiler sounding different. Plus I doubt anyone has even access to such specimen as these claims are mostly done by people using closed systems without access to drivers source code to re-compile for proper listening tests.

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