Snakeoil OS: The Blog

[image:953] Bits are bits - and your computer playback will always be perfect. Right? Do not answer that - the above is a rhetorical question. No matter how good your computers are - once in a while you may find your computer is running fine one minute… more »

Usually I refrain from blogging technical stuffs on Snakeoil. Every time I do so in person, others’ eyes sometimes glass over - they’re still maintaining eye contact, but somehow the brains have disconnected! Regardless, the bit… more »

[image:244] Many tweaks in my audiophile journey are discovered by accident. In this blog we will talk about one of the best kept hifi secrets - phase. A surprisingly large number of people wired their system up wrongly, getting the left and right… more »

So what is native playback? In essence it means the digital music files are played back in: Native Format: music files are played in their original format using the original codec (without re-sampling, format conversion,etc). In other words, lossless… more »