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If you are hearing an audible difference between FLAC compression levels on a computer manufactured in the 21st Century then you've got some serious audio playback software, OS, or Audio driver problems. Using audio playback software that supports a reasonable amount of buffering and/or forces audio data decompression to take place in its own processing thread might help alleviate these problems, however.

The idea that FLAC compression levels can influence the sound in a system that is in good working order is akin to saying that a book being read to an audience is better if it is printed in a larger font. As long as the reader is competent, the size of the font is irrelevant. :-)


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