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RE: WAV better than FLAC accoring to Absolute Sound..

I have tried ripping a few familiar tracks from a cd into both flac and wav files and them played them back to back to see if I could discern any differences. In most cases the wav files sounded a little better. I couldn't tell a big difference but the most noticeable was a slight reduction in fine details, especially in the higher frequencies on the flac files. On two or three tracks, I couldn't tell much of any difference. I did this mainly for my own curiosity as I am just getting started ripping my discs to my hard drive and was trying to figure out which decoder to use. I think I will use wav most of the time, especially for those discs I want to listen to critically. At this point, I am really pleased with the sound quality of the wav files played back from my hard drive (using JRiver MC 17 with wasapi; also using JRiver to rip).


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