steelee Wrote: > Right shut everything and restarted, Ripped dire straits to Wav –Flac > and Wma used the excellent track private investigations as a reference > and wma still sounds the best (much brighter) > Bitrate > wma = 654VBR > wav = 1411 > flac = 563 > What is going on? > Brother in law has done some blind tests and 4 out of 5 picked wma > Also the wma files are quite a bit louder then the wav or flac files? Have you totally ruled out Replay Gain being performed on the Squeezebox end? Have you totally ruled out transcoding being performed on the Slimserver end? I wish I could tell you precisely how to do those things, but I can tell you that a difference in sound quality, let alone a perceptible volume difference, is improbable in the extreme when comparing lossless against lossless.
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