#16 Re: WAV vs FLAC
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:48 pm
Fair enough, Ed.ed wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:30 pm any chance of going back to the original post/question...this thread is becoming a runaway train....
Flac has now been with us in the mainstream for 15 years......if the WAV is better than FLAC argument had any mileage don't you think we'd have heard about it by now?
maybe we have and I've just missed it....doh!
I must admit, I haven't noticed any differences when playing WAV or FLAC on my laptop, but then I've always made sure that I've installed appropriate ASIO or WASAPI drivers for the interfacing hardware.
I haven't heard any differences when playing WAVs or FLACs using my Squeezebox Touch players, although I do know that earlier server versions did not support WAV streaming, and used to transcode on the fly before sending data to the rendering device. The SB3 doesn't support WAV playback, which explains the transcode.
Which leads to me agree with Nick on this point ....