In article , Glenn
Richards wrote:
A well-known hi-fi magazine recently ran an article about how apparently
an uncompressed WAV file sounds better than FLAC.

Ummmm...

*facepalm*

Well, it may be that a particular device/system running particular software
gets something wrong, or struggles to run properly. That then gets blamed
on 'flac vs wave' or whatever as if that was the cause of a more general
problem.

Some years ago when doing tests using a version of audacious I found that
when I played 24 bit wave and flac files, the flac reached the dac as 24
bit, but the wave reached it as 16bit. Last byte of each value sent as a
zero.

Nothing to do with flac vs wave per se. All to do with whoever had
developed and built that version of audacity not getting something right
and not checking. Since I had a USB DAC with an spdif out and could capture
that stream I could find the difference. But I doubt the programmer could,
or would even think of it. And I doubt many hifi 'reviewers' would either,
alas.

The more general problem is when 'reviewers' say A differs from B and then
give entirely the wrong 'reason' as fact without even knowing how to check.

Jim

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