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RE: "Accurate" or not, you. . .

It might not necessarily be an apples-to-apples comparison (the download might be from a different digital source, such as a different master). Because you ripped to WAV, you should be getting the best possible sound from a CD rip.

There was a multi-issue article in The Absolute Sound that came out a little more than a year ago which purported to be a thorough analysis on the subject. The authors concluded that type of rip mattered a lot (WAV preferred over all other lossless formats), and that even the program used to rip WAV files mattered. I have no idea myself whether these claims are true or not. I have heard a demonstration of a CD ripped to WAV and stored on a NAS vs. a thumbdrive file of a file of the same CD ripped to FLAC and played on the same server (Naim NDS). The WAV file sounded better to me, but, even this test was not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.

I currently have my 4,200+ collection of CDs ripped to WAV on a Naim NDS/Uniti system. The sound is decent, but, I actually prefer the sound of my CD player (Naim CD555). Although both are made by Naim, nothing is really shared by the two systems, aside from the same separate power supply, so I cannot say that the difference has anything to do with files vs. CD playback. But, I do have some doubts about the claims that playback from files is inherently superior to CD playback.


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