Fizbin wrote: > Well, now. I did some listening tests between FLAC and WAVE and I > couldn't believe how inferior sounding the FLAC was in comparison. It > just hit me right away, in no time at all. I figured they would either > sound the same or one MIGHT sound better than the other, but it would > take me some time to differentiate...Nope. Plain and simple...FLAC's (at > least via TinySBS) don't sound nearly as good. They have a congested > sound about them. I have no bias for WAVE or FLAC's. In fact I wanted > the FLAC to 'win' so I could put twice as many files on my SD cards. > > To nip it in the bud, I had a friend come over and he played the FLAC or > WAVE version of each track, without telling me. He played each track 4 > times each, and I could pick it off every time.
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