[Audio Empire]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 05:24:16 -0800, Sebastian Kaliszewski wrote
(in article ):

Audio Empire wrote:
4) What he really should be attacking is the high-resolution audio content
provider's' insistence on using FLAC to deliver the files. FLAC is so
flawed
that the way that these sites use it, it's anything but lossless!


Would you care to elaborate on that point? What are the flaws of FLAC?

rgds
\SK


FLAC can be very good, but, according to Dr. Charles Zeilig and Mr. Jay
Clawson who have written several papers about digital audio software,
different software compressors available out there use different FLAC
compression rates and different versions of the FLAC standard. Two of the
most widely used compression schemes for FLAC are FLAC-8 and FLAC-Zero. When
compared to a standard uncompressed WAV file, both FLAC -Zero and FLAC-8
compression settings yielded noticeably and measureably poorer sound. Since
there's really no way for the consumer to know what setting is being used,
Dr. Zeilig recommends that the high-res download industry avoid supplying
downloaded high-resolution music in the FLAC or other compression formats,
if possible.

I am not allowed (by the moderators) to mention my source for this info, but
you can find it online by googling "FLAC vs WAV" or just "Dr, Charles Zeilig
and Jay Clawson".