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RE: Best format to store music files

FLAC compressor is lossless, it means that converting a wav file into a flac and bringing it back to wav will give you a bitwise exact copy of the original wav file (i've tested it today, it gives back a wav file with the exact CRC checksum), so i can't figure out how a lossless codec could even alter emphasis or dynamic response.

I don't think that anyone is arguing that Flac isn't lossless, just that the process of "unzipping it" during playback can affect the sound. Several posters have heard differences between identical files.

This all may depend on the computer involved and extra things going on like use of crossovers, room correction, upsampling.

Do a search for posts from Christine Tham...she has some posts that give some plausible explanations as to why differences are heard.


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