“AIFF,” Sheldon announced to no one in particular, “stands for Audio Interchange File Format. It offers uncompressed PCM audio, unlike the lossy compression of MP3, which hasn’t even been invented yet. Therefore, for scientific accuracy, I will record all household audio in AIFF.”
The argument rose and fell—footsteps, cabinet slams, the refrigerator’s groan. But when Sheldon later analyzed the AIFF waveform, he found something strange. , timestamp 01:23:45: a 2.3-second gap of silence. Then, barely above noise floor: his mother’s sigh. young sheldon s03e02 aiff
“Some things,” he told his bewildered family, “should never be lossless.” “AIFF,” Sheldon announced to no one in particular,
