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Re:FLAC – Format overview by jsmith99 on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:57PM (#32728691)
The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding, which might itself be lossless. Some systems (eg Sonos) can stream lossless audio or even 24 bit 192 khz, which is certainly overkill.
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by chrisseaton on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:14PM (#32728912)
> The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding, which might itself be lossless.

This ain’t true - for example Bluetooth is lossy compression.

‘Digital’ doesn’t mean lossless from the source.

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Re:FLAC – Format overview by CyberDildonics on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:48PM (#32729258)
You are conflating compression and verbatim copying which are two different things and obviously not what they're talking about.
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by chrisseaton on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:52PM (#32729304)
What they said:

> The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding

isn't true - the original encoding is decoded... and re-encoded, losslessly, by the Bluetooth protocol.

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Re:FLAC – Format overview by djmips on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:08PM (#32729506)
Who said they were talking about Bluetooth. It sounds like they were talking about a proprietary system like Sonos Wifi.
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by chrisseaton on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:17PM (#32729581)
> Who said they were talking about Bluetooth.

Literally says ‘Bluetooth’ in the original comment.

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Re:FLAC – Format overview by djmips on Monday September 05, 2022 @09:30PM (#32731565)
Original comment.

"and then sent over Wifi or Bluetooth"

the information about lossless was informative.

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Re:FLAC – Format overview by malermeister on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:04PM (#32728782)
With some wireless systems (Bluetooth comes to mind), there's a lossy reencoding between playback device and speaker too!
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by AshamedCaptain on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:17PM (#32728944)
Lossy, but at >300kbps.... this is not going to be the part that introduces most artifacts.
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