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WAV vs FLAC ; Flash Drive vs Hard Drive

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Thank you Jim for your primer.

I appreciate your advise not to oversample from Native format. You also stated:

"Since FLAC is lossless there is no difference in sound between a WAV file and a FLAC file (in theory)"

Yes, of course - but many things which are in theory should behave in one way in reality behaves in other way (remember early digital vs LP?) and I don;t want to know it after the fact. So, I still am asking if anyone made a (blind preferably) sonic comparison bewteen WAVe and FLAC?

Another question: do you know if sound quality differ from storage on hard drive versus that on flash drive ? On one hand, flash drive, as far as I know has only UPS port which is not the greatest for music whereas hard drive may have other digital outputs like HDMI which is (are) much better. On other hand, solid state memory was shown to be superior (for sound again) over magnetic moving memory like a hard disc...

Thank you
Rafael
Thank you.

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