In order to reduce the 2.24GB that a 96/24 .WAV version of the Beethoven 9th symphony occupies, I converted it to FLAC using the dBpoweramp Batch Converter. I was surprised to find that the resulting FLAC files totaled slightly larger than 2.24GB. For example, the first movement in .WAV is 539MB while the .FLAC of the same came to 540MB. I have no idea what I did wrong. I tried this several more times and the results were identical. I'll appreciate your help.
Joel