I was intrigued by this notion of there being an audible difference between FLAC and WAV files, so I have conducted a little experiment of my own.
I ripped just one track of a CD. To make it a bit more all encompassing I decided to rip to 2 lossless uncompressed formats and 2 lossless compressed formats. These formats are WAV, AIFF, ALAC & FLAC respectively. All tracks were ripped with the same ripping tool (dbPoweramp), and all tracks were ripped securely on first pass and returned identical AccurateRip results. Indeed, the checksums for all of the rips were identical. I then copied the file over into My Music on my system, and adjusted the value of WAV playback to native in my Squeezebox Server client - all the other formats were already set as native, so no need to adjust anything. Then I sought out the folder with the four rips and had a listen. I used my laptop to control the playback and view the gui interface remotely, and I had no indication as to which track was which in terms of playback. And I can't hear any bloody difference between any of them ! Which leads me to a number of possible conclusions. Either there are no audible differences or my system does not resolve highly enough to make the differences audible or my hearing is shot, or maybe any combination of the previous options apply. YMMV Chris :) -- Stratmangler There is no element of personal attack in my response. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stratmangler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
