has anybody else noticed this about flac audio?

This might be a published fake FLAC file generation.  Really, the only way for you to personally validate this FLAC compression difference is to buy your own audio file converter (such as Aul Converter 48x44) and compress some WAV files YOURSELF.  Then test them and see if you can hear any difference.  Not saying this phenomenon is untrue, just difficult to prove.

I know that there are some older media player software that just do not playback FLAC files with good quality.  This has to do with having to uncompress the FLAC data on the fly.  I think it was Monkey Media Player that really sounded crappy with FLAC files.  I have had no problems with Jriver playing back FLAC and quality, soundstage, stereo imaging and depth has always been excellent.  I know JRiver uncompresses "ahead" and caches data before it's clocked and sent to the DAC.

1) You are making absolute statements about sound quality based solely on your personal experience which may or may not be limited. That is a mistake.

2) digital sound stage is not 2-D. If that is what you are experiencing see 1).

3) Compressed file formats be they lossy or in this case lossless do require additional processing on the streamer to decompress before streaming. That might produce different noise levels with some devices. So I can see where more compressed lossless flac might be at a disadvantage but results will still depend on how well the streamer is able to do its job.

heaudio123"I can’t say this in a nice way, but this statement is made up. There is no basis for making it and absolutely no way to justify it."


There is every reasonable, practical, and justifiable basis for this person to have made his statements and that is that he is reporting what he hears. No one hear has to "justify" making they’re listening results here, except perhaps to the group’s moderators but in this example there is nothing objectionable, offensive, or inappropriate about this post except you happen to not like it. Just because you do not agree with a statement or are unable to understand the statement or it’s background does not mean that the statement is "made up."

"I have to assume it comes from a lack of understanding of digitized and reconstructed analog signals, and a belief in the perfection of vinyl (which it most certainly is not)."
That is a remarkable, notable, and "impressive" set of assumptions and "leaps of faith" in reasoning but I guess that is something you are allowed to do. So I will assume that you make this statement because you are unable to process the information offered in a way other than to reject, attack, or dismiss it without reasonable explanation.

No never noticed that about FLAC. 

sam here thanks for all the input.i am by no means an audiophile  and i don't mind someone saying i'm full of crap?

 i understand how crazy this sounds however there is a noticeable difference between vintage vinyl and digital audio and i believe that difference can be greatly reduced by re-encoding to flac with compression level 4 my test prove it to my ears perhaps somebody could do a quick re-encode and do there own a/b test?

also when i made a 1 gb virtual hard drive from my pc's ram memory and import audio into the virtual ram drive and play the audio from the ram the sound quality is improved 100% like listening to the studio master tape can somebody explain this?