i'm playing around with the wadia ipod transport, sending the digital data to an external DAC. best results are from lossless stored files.
seem to be two choices: apple lossles or wav files. both will eat more space, that's ok, any advice for preference between these two?
jm
I am surprised the AIFF file format is not available given this is Apples official recording file format. I have yet to ever see any digital recording not be recorded in AIFF the more or less equivalent version of the PC WAV. This is not to say there aren't recording studios using PC computers for recording, but every redbook cd in my collection are native AIFF files. Regardless figure about 35-40 mb for each WAV or AIFF non compressed audio file around 4 minutes in length give or take a few seconds.
In any case you can store lots of audio with todays massive storage devices even with the non compressed files. I agree with Oxide Blu, apple lossless is not completely lossless, but how much difference you hear will depend upon the rest of your audio system and how resolute it is.
FWIW, my own personal preference is to use a computer based digital front end with external dac/hard drives with my apple laptop and iTunes for jukebox. Have compared this with some very high end digital players including Wadia but prefer the computer based solution.
Hope this helps.
Rob