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There is actually a corner on the web where people debate about FLACs and WAVs sounding different
by nayuki 10y ago
There is actually a corner on the web where people debate about FLACs and WAVs sounding different
- user5994461 10y agoThat's fun considering they are bit-to-bit identical :D
- edejong 10y agoYes, you got the pun, bravo, 2 geek-points for you. However, you lose 20 geek-points because FLAC and wav are not bit-to-bit identical. They are both lossless encodings and correct implementations will preserve the input material bit-to-bit.
- bcook 10y agoPerhaps he's referring the the bits sent out from the codec rather than the bits received by the codec?
- user5994461 10y agoFLAC is bit to bit identical to WAV after decoding. In layman terms, it's like zipping and unzipping a .wav
- edejong 10y agoYes, I understand how the FLAC codec works. My comment was pointing out that FLAC can either represent the codec or the binary and that in neither case one can say that FLAC is bit-to-bit identical, since in the former case you're referring to the specification and in the latter case you are referring to the binary executable. One can say that FLAC is a lossless compression codec and as such it is homomorphic to the original raw binary encoding and the WAV encoding. It might be pedantic, but saying "flac is bit-to-bit identical to wav" is just wrong. To me it sounds like saying: "The speed limit is 80 kilometers".
- lucideer 10y agoThis is probably true in non-blind listening comparison though. Similar to food tasting different when served in different coloured receptacles[0] [0] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-459X.2012.00397.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-459X.2012....
- mikeash 10y agoIf you had to summarize the audiophile community in a few words, it would be "does not understand the point of blind testing."
- venture_lol 10y agoAll audophiles eventually will reach the stage where my hearing aid is better than yours :)
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- mikeass 10y agoThat's terribly judgmental, friend.
- sctb 10y agoWe've banned this account and the main one for repeatedly violating the guidelines and creating new accounts to do so.
- nayuki 10y agoFor example: http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/flac-vs-wav-audio-quality http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/flac-vs-wav-audio-quality