Originally Posted by
WAD62
then perhaps that's what's degrading your sound...i.e. the secondary effects of transcoding, not the data itself.
Yes, I believe that's what he's saying.
I use JPLAYmini, there's another reason for me to use WAV - JPLAY converts flac to wav and stores both in memory. This in-memory player sounds best with smaller memory allocations so flac in this case just wastes space and degrades sound quality due to increased memory requirements.
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