Flac converting to WAV

Posted by: Ian Jones on 05 December 2012

Can anyone help

Ive been reading about the fact that Naim recommend WAV over Flac, I've ripped all my cds in flac on a zone ripper with db poweramp.

 

I have been playing with the settings tonight and found that I could change the flac to WAV in asset , they now appear as WAV on N stream  when playing, my question is that as good as having WAV direct from the zoneripper if I had originally ripped my CDs in WAV to start with.

 

I must say that fimilair CDs have a different sound to them now " please note I said different not better".

 

Cheers Ian 

Posted on: 14 December 2012 by APT

thanks for your reply Aleg. So does this mean there is no benefit of changing the compression setting in the ripper?

 

APT

Posted on: 15 December 2012 by likesmusic
Originally Posted by APT:

thanks for your reply Aleg. So does this mean there is no benefit of changing the compression setting in the ripper?

 

APT

 

I know I'm not Aleg .. but .. there's a very useful comparison chart on the flac website here which shows there are pretty small differences in the decode time for the various compression levels, which is as it should be since FLAC was designed to be easy for weedy processors to decode. The processor work gets put in at encode time. Interestingly, if you drill down in to the details you can even find that for some tracks higher compression levels are actually quicker to decode than lower compression level ones. I suspect FLAC -5 is chosen as the default because, as you can see from the "Total Time" column it is the quickest overall to decode.

 

 

 

Posted on: 15 December 2012 by rich46

you can tell with compression with flac through db power compared with none even better if you transcode to wave with through naim streamer .all differences are very small

Posted on: 15 December 2012 by APT

Thanks for the advice guys.

 

Regards

 

APT