Can I connect laptop directly to Denon 4500

[lovinthehd]

I've noticed the Hi Res music sites, like HDTracks — offer files in FLAC, and in Apple Lossless formats. I can't tell between them on a great system... But the hard drives the music is stored on? FLAC files can take twice the drive space as Apple's. My NAS already glares at me as I walk by it, with my backups of backups on additional backup drives.



—Thumprchgo
a.k.a., Mark, Prairiedawg, OldCrankInTheBack

Setup: Mostly plebeian, but carefully curated.
Denon AVR-X4400H, 9.2; Audyssey MultiEQ-XT32
Polk Audio RTiA series for L/C/R,
FXi series for Side Surrounds,
OMW5 for on-ceiling Atmos, at 5.2.4
Polk DSW-550 subs, two.
AppleTV 4K, Fire Stick 4K, QNAP NAS,
nanoAVR-DL (useless, don’t get me started)
MiniDSP 4x2HD for sub EQ and time-alignment
LG 55” 4K Dolby Vision
Innumerable beads of sweat
Thousands of frustrated, misspent hours
And one radiant smile just up ahead, off in the gloaming...

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ALAC and FLAC files shouldn't be very different in size....

 

[surfacetension]

ALAC and FLAC files shouldn't be very different in size....

Yeah it sounds like maybe they were different sample rates, though technically FLAC can be encoded with varying degrees of reduction from -0 to -8 which could also greatly affect the bit rate. I'd assume you can do the same thing with ALAC but I've never encoded anything into ALAC.

 

[killdozzer]

This is what I use for the same purpose:

I don't know if you wanted it out in digital domain...


LATER EDIT: Sorry, I see PENG already gave this advice.