Hi All, After reading your posts, curiosity moved me to try, so i spent the long Week end (from friday to tuesday, was Holyday in Italy) lissening to different music and looking for differences.
I was skeptic, becouse i knew and i'ìve personaly verified that you can convert from wave to flac and viceversa any time you want, but if you compare the two wave files are BIT PERFECT, so i was realy surprised about the results: in my personal experience, limitetd at SB+ and 7.4.1, there is a little but audible difference in playng Wave or Flac files, more strange (to me) is that the same type of differences (reduced) still remain if you play a flac file 'converted' in wave at the server side. In few words those are the major difference to me: a) Stereo Image: Playng the Wave file, the scene is more focused and deeper, but smaller, means that if you play i.e. "Old Love" from Eric Clapton Umplugged album, mr. Clapton seems to be 10 cm shorter, the bass is behind and not on top of the voice, the piano asolo is not so far in the left. b)Sound 'color': Playng Flac, voices, arcs and cimbals are a little bit 'harder' and cold, some 'electric' take place, in wave they are smoorher, some more air around and more 'natural'. No big differences in bass, maybe a bit more control in wave. All above IMHO and i want to point that differences are small but auidible in my system, if you pay attention to details in a critical lissening session. Also in 'blind test' I always recogniced the WAVE (non always the flac and the flac converted in wave)if played in sequence. Last point: often in the past, after a long listening session (I love Wagner, so you can imagine how long they are...) I founded myself claiming about some roughness and "nasality" (hope is correct in english)in the sound, that make me tired, my first impression today, but i've to try for much more time, is that playing wave files make this point better (far away form LP's, anyhow). At the end of the day, and just to give you an idea, changes are similar to the one I had using an AC insulator transformer on the Amplifier power line. I personaly think is not a matter of file format that is proven to be truly lossless, but some difference is in, maybe some tech guy could think about? My library is FLAC and now i'm thinking to move it back to WAVE, payng the cost of more disk space. Hope to be usefull, some other guy had similar experience? regards, Marco. -- marcoc1712 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321
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