Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion


I've seen Steve N. Recommend converting Flac to Wav a few times in the threads. Last night I downloaded DBPoweramp to give it a try. It worked great. Just took 16/44 Flac & converted to 16/44 wav. Then I noticed it offered upconversion capability... It was late, I should have been in bed an hour before, but I sat there and converted another flac file, setting it to upconvert to 24/192... Let it do its thing, hit play, heard music and when I looked up at my DAC, it said 24/192. It worked!. It was late, I had the volume on very very low, everyone was asleep. Sure, I'll listen and report, but 'm wondering if anyone else has tried this and found any sound quality difference between Flac Or Wav @ 16/44 vs upconverting the recording? I and I'm sure others would love to hear your experience, thanks in advance, Tim
timlub

Showing 1 response by lupinthe3rd

It's true, WAV is vastly superior to FLAC. Vastly. FLAC sounds like AM radio in comparison. Never mind the fact that they are 100% identical when played back, the exact same bit stream, identical to the last 0 and 1.

The 1's in the WAV file have more depth and clarity than the 1's in a FLAC file. And the 0's have a darker background, like a veil has been lifted. In fact, the 0's in the WAV file have more depth, they're crunchier, more robust, and holographic.

I think the 1's and 0's in a WAV file also contain more fiber, as my bowel movements are noticeably stronger after listening to WAV instead of FLAC.

BTW, I've also found enormous gains in changing the wall plates on my electric outlets to rhodium plated platinum with carbon fibre inlays, wrapping my interconnects in virgin albino crocodile wool, and de-magnetizing my wooden speaker stands.