Article on FLAC vs WAV [why they allegedly sound diferent]

[james]

There is a discussion on the naim forum ..

http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/artic ... -different

about an article on why flac and wav sound different.

Here is the article ..

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/v ... ferent.htm

Personally I am very skeptical but it is an interesting read

James

[If the moderators want to move this to 'computer audio' please do so]

[rab]

Is there a tl;dr for this? Sounds like nonsense, but life's too short to read the detail. Is it claiming that embedded cover art is the culprit?

[Fitzgeme]

They lost me when they started using human listening tests. Just compare the output wave form. All the listening test does is allow psychoacoustics and fatigue colour the results. Flac files produce identical output to the wav file they were encoded from, hence the lossless moniker.


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[nige2000]

prefer wav myself
doubt its the cover art maybe its the on the fly decoding introducing noise and jitter

[rab]

I read enough to determine that they claim the metadata is the cause (so lossless flac won't fix it).