I've been told "It's FLAC, it's totally lossless, you are hearing things" My response, is that I really don't know what goes on in the Qobuz black box, but downloaded vs streamed FLAC sounded substantially different in favor of the downloaded file. In fact, I have compared FLAC files I downloaded from Qobuz with the exact same title streamed, and for whatever reason the stream was quite inferior. I subscribe to Qobuz, but found myself not using it that much because something about the sound was quite lackluster. Basically the solution had been to totally isolate the DAC from computer and get as much power noise isolation as possible.īut something still wasn't right. Fast forward a decade, now using high end servers/streamers, I2S optical isolation, various power products, I started to realize the level of enjoyment and audio quality that I was looking for. For whatever reason, despite apparent superior DACs and better quality audio formats, something was wrong/just not as enjoyable as I remember my CD days being. This all started when I gave up my CDs and player and went into USB DACs and Hi Rez downloads. Ok, so some are definitely going to say "This guy is looney tunes" but after 11 years of going back and forth I'm definitely convinced that FLAC and ALAC do not sound as good as WAV or AIFF.
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