mwphoto Wrote: > If you are in a position to repeat a blind AB test and succeed in > telling the difference between FLAC and WAV it would be interesting to > hear the results. Especially as such a situation is almost guaranteed > to get SlimDevices staff interested enough to want to fix up the SQB so > it doesn't happen. > Malcolm
Malcolm, Thanks for the very informative explanation of flac. I believe that I can hear the difference between the formats. My system is very transparent and my ears are pretty well trained being a musician for 30 years. I will attempt to create a test using a few different well recorded sources, and ask my wife to run the remote to select the files at random. I will name them with random names so she will not know either. I do not want to give the impression that I care whether I can hear the difference, as I said prior, I listen to flac myself because it sounds excellent. My only point was that flac is discernable from wav and that it is plausible that this should be true. The degree to which a difference is audible is naturally very small, since only slight variance of hardware is the only variable. When I first started to try flac, I was curious whether it was really as good as people claimed. I did AB by myself, on a recent digital recording comparing a soft passage of music containing instruments with very distinct harmonic signatures, like accordion, percussion bells, etc. I sensed that I enjoyed the wav sound better, that I could hear more warmth, or hear deeper into the sound than with the flac. I am very interested and open minded to see whether I imagined the differences or not since it has been about 6 weeks since then, and I have upgraded my amplifier with better tubes since then. I tend to think that comparing recordings that are less than excellent would not reveal any difference. I will not have an opportunity to do a blind test until this coming Thursday or Friday when my wife can assist. I will post as new topic. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21333 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
