Phones are impossible to distance from nowadays.
All you desire is fresh air and interactions that aren't possible without a clean break. I believe the term for recognizing the ills of being locked into a thoughtscape/ecosystem is a bunch of people smelling each other's farts. In your excellent system, - I would find it difficult to imagine that you couldn't hear a difference between AIFF and FLAC, - unless you use ROON, - (which I also do not like, and would never spend money on). I do not stream over the INternet, - I hate Tidal, - and I would never use MQA. The hard drives for my NAS were cheap, - so I don't think twice about it. I do not notice any difference between FLAC and AIFF on my iphone, - or on my bedroom system, - which has a primary IF of squeezebox touch with a LPS. I don't like having too much music on my iPhone, - (I have about 224 songs).
QNAP NAS running LMS and MiniMserver, Gustard U16, BlueCircle BC204, Merlin VSM. My gear is APL universal player, Sonore ultra-Rendu. Less detail in the upper treble with FLAC, + less "richness" in upper treble. sounds, - (especially drums) in the upper bass are less distinguishable from different drums with a similar tone. The differences include less soundstage and instrument separation. I compared them using LMS and MPD/DLNA/MiniMServer. I have tested and compared AIFF to FLAC and the SQ differences are apparent especially on better recorded material. If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. I subscribe to the motto live and let listen. I don't discount anyone's listening experience or opinions on the subject. I really doubt your Rossini will sound different with any of the three versions. You could convert a couple albums to FLAC and FLAC uncompressed for comparison with your AIFF files. In all my assessments between FLAC and WAV/AIFF I could never conclude that it was the file type that made a difference (if any was heard at all). If we could cut this in half, the options for SSDs would open up and make finding the right solution mush easier (given many other requirements I'm not mentioning). He only has about 2TB of music (all uncompressed) but wants room to grow. I'm designing a solution for someone right now and he requires 5TB of music storage. Smaller data storage requirements always increase one's options. When huge(r) iPhones come out you may fit much more music, etc. Perhaps your entire FLAC library could then fit on an external M.2 drive to attach directly to the Rossini. You may have other uses come to mind once you have a library that's half the size. Sure disk is cheap and data pipes are large, but it ever hurts to decrease the size of your data. In addition to great metadata, you get the size savings. iTunes file share for apps obviously supports FLAC as you know. I believe FLAC has the best metadata options and is now supported by everything except iTunes. Should you? Only you can decide but we can give you information with which to use when making the decision.
#Aiff to flac converter windows portable
Too much Mac in my life already.ġ- Should I transcode all my AIFF to FLAC?Īdvantage is the smaller size to use on portable devices - you can play FLAC on an iPhone with Onkyo HF Player, you can play them on the Mac with Audirvana or Quicktime, etc.Ģ- Has anyone done a recent assessment of FLAC vs uncompressed? If so with what exact setup?ģ- Any Mac users who have any comments on using FLAC?ġ- Should I transcoded all my AIFF to FLAC? Also know that there's ALAC which is essentially Mac's version of FLAC, but I don't really want to use that. FLAC is lossless (I KNOW!!!), bits are bits, etc, except lower processing requirements sometimes result in better sound quality. Mobile: Have an iTunes+ library, and also put hi-res files on the phone using Onkyo HF Playerġ- I read uncompressed formats (WAV and AIFF) sounded better - this is probably an outdated assessmentĢ- Did not use WAV because there's no (official) support for taggingĪdditionally, I just did a FLAC vs AIFF comparison via Roon and frankly I cannot tell the difference. Office/laptop: Headphones over Roon or Audirvana Main system: I use Roon from dedicated Mac mini over network to dCS Rossini, sometimes I use Audirvana I am an exclusively Mac user as well as iOS user. Library is formed of AIFF files for anything PCM (red book rips and purchases), DSF (SACDs ripped and purchased files), FLAC (MQA files don't like to be transcoded to AIFF, the header info can get messed up and not recognized as MQA).
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