In Reply to: Lossless Compression vs. .WAV audio quality ? posted by AbeCollins on October 13, 2008 at 07:51:23:
I have once or twice compare the same selection direct from CD, from WAV, from ALAC, and from FLAC. I haven't heard any significant differences. OK, maybe I have indifferent equipment and bad ears.Dropouts have always been my biggest issue with computer playback regardless of file format. However recently, (on good advise from Dawnrazor, I think), I set Foobar2000's 'full file input buffering' to 200000kb. So far this seems to have almost eliminated dropouts.
Something else that has made an objective difference is selecting my M-Audio Revolution 7.1's ASIO driver in Foobar. Using this driver with either ALAC or FLAC, the HDCD indicator on my DAC lights up; this isn't the case using Direct Sound, nor with iTunes playback of ALAC. However truthfully I can's say I hear a difference on account of it.
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- Yes: didn't hear much difference - Feanor 12:09:40 10/16/08 (6)
- RE: Yes: didn't hear much difference - Dawnrazor 21:53:48 10/19/08 (5)
- Thanks, I'll try it, DR ~nt - Feanor 03:17:19 10/20/08 (4)
- RE: Thanks, I'll try it, DR ~nt - Tony Lauck 06:46:57 10/20/08 (3)
- Thanks, Tom, good advice - Feanor 09:28:30 10/21/08 (2)
- Enjoy the music! nt - Tony Lauck 09:40:39 10/21/08 (1)
- Thanks again, TONY!! ~nt - Feanor 13:10:22 10/21/08 (0)