In article , Richard
Kimber
wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:35:43 +0100, 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*

I was puzzled by this too, so I listened to a file in both formats,
using sox to produce a wav from the flac.

Initially, the wav did sound a little better - until I realised that the
volume of the wav was slightly louder.

What's curious about that is that sox should convert with no changes in the
values when 'reconstituted' back into LPCM. So either you'd added a scaling
or the player was up to something akin to the problem I reported.

Did you just use something as simple as

sox in.wav out.flac

to do the conversion?

And what playing software did you use?

Jim

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