Dusting off this old thread... I'm one of those 'weirdo's that can hear the difference between WAV and FLAC on the SBT. I have two units and I have confirmed it on both. I've had a friend come over a few times and randomly play a WAV file and the FLAC counterpart. For the first half hour I could tell him which was which...After that it got harder to tell, from fatigue. Sometimes he would play the same file format twice, to try and trick me, to no avail.
However, I have found something interesting and confusing at the same time, which is why I'm posting. I changed one setting in the File Format Conversion Setup and now FLAC's sound identical (to me) to WAVs. And I'm not sure why that would be. Under FLAC, all I did was change FLAC from Native to Disabled. I left the other settings at their defaults. (PCM = FLAC). I doubled checked that the settings 'stuck' before listening to a FLAC. With the NATIVE setting, a FLAC would show up: Bitrate: 2806kbps VBR. With the DISABLED setting it would be: Bitrate 2914kbps VBR (converted to 1411kb) With disabled set, I absolutely can not tell the difference...So far, anyway... I'm not expecting the skeptic's to believe me, but I'm just curious what is the unit/software doing differently with these settings? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fizbin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
