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.
something must be very wrong somewhere, maybe in the file conversion. What program did you use to convert from WAV to FLAC? *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100748 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
