Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners How to improve my Axiom sound?

With FLAC, the level of "compression" has only an incidence on file size and possible increased difficulties on very old low-performance decoders. It is 100% lossless in all cases. Not to be confused with "dynamic compression" which would happen during mixing to make everything louder.

In FLAC, the level of compression has very little if any influence on the amount of processing power required for the decompression of the music file. The thought behind FLAC was to develop a compression format that put all the resource requirements into the compression end, but have a very low requirement for the decompression when you listen to the sound file.

You have to remember that FLAC is a lossless compression. Think a ZIP file for music. You get out exactly what you put into it, just in a smaller amount of required space for storage.

By comparison, the lovely MP3, and even Apples M4A are a lossy compression. It gets a much smaller file by removing data from the source during the compression. The thought was that the human ear is not that sensitive and certain sounds can be compressed without making a radical change to the sound you hear. so if removing complexity to the sound can save some space they do it to achieve a bitrate of data in the file. The smaller the bitrate, the more data that is removed from the sound to achieve it.

I'm moving my setup into a much smaller room, and no longer need my ADA-1500-3 amp (which has been awesome for the huge great room my system was in).
Is there a forum for selling used gear here? or... any recommendations for selling Axiom gear?
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There is no buy and sell on this forum but i would recommend audiogon or Canuckaudiomart , i sold an amp on kiji so i recommend that. Its hard selling now because everyone wants a piece of the action, tax's, handling fee's and shipping. I found someone that had faith and sent me the money and i sent him the amp but that is rare. I stood to lose way too much selling on ebay where they take taxes off, British colombia has 12% tax which is stupid to charge tax on something that had tax paid on it when it was new. Good luck End Rant.,

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