opaqueice;357062 Wrote: 
> Such claims have been made many times in the past.  Upon further
> investigation, they always turned out to be:
> 
> 1) not audible in a blind test, hence almost certainly the result of
> expectation bias, or 
> 
> 2) the result of replay gain.  WAV files do not have replay gain (I'm
> pretty sure), FLAC files do.  So if you've enabled replaygain for your
> FLACs there will be an audible difference, simply due to the volume
> adjustment.  It is well established that volume differences have a very
> strong affect on perceived audio quality.
Not forgetting of course that issue with Apple Lossless files where the
replayrain was being applied twice, thus making them sound even less
like the WAV files they were compared to.


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