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In Reply to: RE: I guess the point might be that many of the commercial web sites. . . posted by frankwm on September 12, 2020 at 11:45:52
Can you give us the bottom line regarding FLAC? Is it lossless relative to WAV or is there some loss occurring with FLAC?
Thanks!
John
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Years back I'd offer files (CD-RW derived: Pioneer/TEAC) as WAV+FLAC as was 'convinced' I could hear a slight difference (albeit on Sony desktop active sqeekers (SRS-58) from Dell Inspiron 6400 Headphone-out: hi-definition as it bypassed the usual circuitry): but did comment that, mathematically, one could, apparently, reconstruct the original data from FLAC.
So I sort of put it down to possible real-time FLAC-to-WAV conversion audio anomalies and didn't really pursue it as people can appear quite happy with what I'd find unacceptable - and also, apparently, couldn't discern a difference between 16 and 24bit - which, from LP, I consider preserves more dynamic freedom as a 24bit FLAC - 16bit sounds 'truncated'..
Irrespective of the above 'mathematically perfect' conversion, Jim's data does shown some slight variation.
I'd personally be happier if WAV was the default - but file sizes get pretty big for (ie) stereo 24/96 - and I save as a 32bit float.
What about 5.1 DSD256 or 5.1 DXD? ;-)
FLAC is lossless but compressed in terms of how much space it takes up on the hard drive.
Wav is to audio files what Raw is to image files. Wav is the whole stream without trying to make it take up less space on the hard drive.
Tre'
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