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RE: Nonsense, I'm guessing

So I just tried that. I took a 16/44.1 wav file that I created myself playing the guitar. I converted that file to flac and back to wav and back to flac over 20 times.

I listened to the original and then the multi generation file and could hear no difference. But maybe my hearing's not so good or maybe my system's not so good. So I opened both files in Cool edit. I copied the multi generation version and inverted it then mixed it back with the original - essentially subtracting one from the other. I figure there would have to be some residual noise if the two files weren't identical. But low and behold there was no residual noise to be detected down to -150 db. Just total silence.

I'm sure someone will punch a hole in this methodology but I can tell you this: for my ears, and my system, and my money, flac files work just fine.

kerkula


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