so today, i was listening to an album, and realized i kept hearing each track repeat. i checked, and i do do indeed have two copies of the album, one in AIF, and the other FLAC. so i did a little comparison on one track, and felt there was a small, but subtle difference...very subtle, but identifiable, and the FLAC file was slightly more incisive sounding.
the track was the Girl from Ipanema, from the David Hazeltine Trio, Plays the Jobim Songbook in NY, and it's in 24/96. i preferred the FLAC file, at least in this music. i could see i might have a different preference with other music. btw, the server is converting the AIF file to FLAC, so i can only speculate that the lack of server overhead for the native FLAC file accounts for the difference. -- 4 TB Drobo-->FW 800-->mac mini-->Ethernet Transporter--> Wireworld Eclipse 6 coax-->Meridian G61 G61--> Nordost Red Dawn-->Primare 30.3 Primare-->Ocos--Vienna Acoustics Beethoven/Maestro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ netchord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21002 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
