Could be. But I feel the same through the digital interconnect on my quad vena.
A lot of the manner in which we soak in music is psychological, i guess. After so many years and file formats, I say you live only once! If you want to convert everything to 16/44.1 WAV, go for it!! You're not deleting the other files!
Try it uncompressed. The source data will then be exactly the same as WAV and your player won; thave to unwrap it (that shouldn;t make a difference but you never know). Then you'd hav the soundstage as for WAV with the benefit of FLAC tagging.
I think you could even convert compressed FLAC back to uncrompressed - seeing as no data is lost?
It could be (though very highly unlikely) it's the uncompressing of flac that is doing something in his players. Uncompressed flac may (I doubt it) help. Uncomressed flac is essentially WAV afaik. This is from a review of dbPoweramp R14:
... also includes a FLAC Uncompressed encoding option (which stores audio uncompressed, for those who want WAVE PCM but with better ID Tagging).
It's that last part - WAV PCM but with better ID Tagging - that offers up what many people have been asking for which is an open source uncompressed file format that allows embedded (and widely supported) metadata.
Copyright © illustrate 2024, All rights reserved