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Hi al lI just got a yamaha cd-s300 cd player that has usb port on the front. I would like to put my CDs on a usb memory stick for convenience. But was wondering if wav is better audio quality than flac to copy the cds to the memory stick any info greatly appreciated
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Both wav and flac are lossless, flac has smaller file sizes as is a little compressed.
Check what file types are supported by the Yamaha.
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The vast majority of people say they are the same quality as though flac is compressed it is lossless.
A small number of people think wav sounds better so if you are concerned and you want to be really sure you can stick to wav but it takes up more space.
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I use Flac and max 24/96, sound quality is superb. I doubt my gear would pick up on any details a higher Res would bring, if in deed those additional details exist, outside of what measuring equipment could pick up, I'm sure it would be beyond human hearing.
WAV files are enormous, that's what finally clinched it for me.
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it's the exact same data in both so the idea that they are different, let alone audibly different, is far-fetched.
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Depends how each is mixed down from the original ultra hi res studio master.Originally Posted by Macca
I sometimes find differences between resolutions and the hi res isn't always the best. I accidentally bought a CD quality download, not realizing I had already down loaded a 24/96 from the same album and link to the store. They definitely sounded different.
The streamed version and download can also sound different, you pays your money and cross everything.
Same with up sampling differences.
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The two different resolutions are not necessarily the same master. Also how the down sampling was done could conceivably make a difference.Depends how each is mixed down from the original ultra hi res studio master.
I sometimes find differences between resolutions and the hi res isn't always the best. I accidentally bought a CD quality download, not realizing I had already down loaded a 24/96 from the same album and link to the store. They definitely sounded different.
The streamed version and download can also sound different, you pays your money and cross everything.
Same with up sampling differences.
But we're talking about the difference between WAV and FLAC. Sampling rate has nothing to do with that.
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Sorry Martin, I wrongly presumed you were picking up on my point, about higher res than 24/96 not being discernible.
Your right in principle, if the same oranges were fed in to each, but even WAV/Flac versions could have been processed differently when mixed down. So, so many unknowns and possibilities to cock something up on one version or the other.
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all files ive ever bought i took on flac. used to buy a few from qobuz
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“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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