zanash;273304 Wrote: > I've also hear differences between lossless formats ....[flac and apple] > the apple sounded lighter and flasc darker if that makes any > sense....on the same amp speakers and dac setup. I had one thought regarding a VERY audible difference which might be occurring. If you used iTunes to rip a CD to ALAC and EAC to rip it to FLAC, AND if that CD happened to have pre-emphasis (which is fairly rare)... I believe iTunes automatically applies de-emphasis EQ whereas EAC/FLAC does not. However, the non-de-emphasized FLAC version would likely sound very bright, not "dark", compared to the de-emphasized ALAC version. For discs with emphasis, I use EAC to rip to WAV, use the FFT filter in Cool Edit to apply the de-emphasis curve, then encode to FLAC. The most recent disc I remember doing this way was Dan Fogelberg's "Captured Angel", which was also mastered at very low level, espcially after the high-cut of the de-emphasis curve, so I boosted the overall level almost 10 dB in addition to the de-emphasis high-cut.
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