Chris,
Good data - thanks for that. I'll comment on the TOP figures in a bit.
What leaps out at me is that CPU utilisation seems to be higher when playing Hi-Res LPCM than when playing Hi-Res FLAC. It seems that managing data coming over the network interface is a greater CPU overhead than decoding the FLACS - I didn't expect that!. Just to clarify, where you say 'PCM file downloaded to SBT as PCM' do you mean that the source FLAC was decoded to PCM by the server, or by you off-line?. What was your subjective experience?.
Cheers,
Alex
Last edited by AlexM; 01-02-2012 at 12:11.
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