Why the bit rate change after ripping?

[Pompilius]

I have ripped some CD's with the dBpoweramp into flac.
When I play the flac files on my Bryston digital player the player correctly identifies the file type as 44.1khz but the bitrate varies between only 400Kb/sec and 700 Kb/sec. When the same CD is played ripped with window madia player into WAVE file the bitrate is correctly indicated as 1411Kb/sec.
I am concerned if some resolution is being lost in the process of ripping,
it sounds almost like a lossy compression?

Any idea would be helpful since I have considerable library to rip.

Thank you:

[Spoon]

Re: Why the bit rate change after ripping?

It is just showing the compressed bit rate, as FLAC uncompresses with no quality loss there is nothing to worry about (for example if flac compressed 2:1 then ~ 700kbps would be shown).