Channel Classics has free downloads that you can use to evaluate the different formats.
#Cd audio quality software#
And the CD Quality FLAC from Linn is probably slightly better than the FLAC you rip from the CD you bought from Linn, if only because Linn's equipment and software is a lot better than yours or mine. So, yes, the FLAC from a studio master is different (better? only with high end equipment - which Linn also sells, quel suprise) than the FLAC from a CD. Some record companies (try Linn or Channel Classics, for example) offer their releases in a variety of FLAC (and ALAC) versions: The files on a cd are a "compressed" version (in terms of kilosamples per second) of the studio master file. I was also told that the flac files that are ripped directly from the master of a CD, are different (and much better and accurate) than if you create your own flac file from same cd A track from the CD, a WAV version of the same track, Flac version of the same track from theĬD, Flac version of the same track from a WAV Flac = from small to large size (depending on level of compression) and high quality playback. WAV = larger size, high quality playbackĢ. However, there is no evidence to suggest, so far, that it is so.ġ. Some people have a purist mentality that believes if anything is just changed or altered in any way, the end product suffers in some way.ĭoes it affect the original quality in an "absolute" sense? It's difficult to say.
You mean, if you create flac files from WAV rather than directly from the CD?įlac files only compress for size purposes, but when played, the player decompresses it as part of the playback process and does not affect quality. Divadi_7 wrote:I was also told that the flac files that are ripped directly from the master of a CD, are different (and much better and accurate) than if you create your own flac file from same cd
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