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But of course, this comparison isn’t quite right in this case because both cd and CD-R are being played by the same player, with the same decoding circuits.īack to the lossless story then. And they are telling me that there are clear differences between CD’s and copies. I do know, however, that I can trust my ears. But it could well be the ever-popular jitter or interdependence between the rougher pit shape and the optical unit that reads them and the resultant error-correction, or, well, I just don’t know exactly. Even bit-perfect CD copies can sound quite different from the original. Many people have found out by now that this is simply not the case. In matters Lossless Audio, saying that two bit-identical files sound the same is more or less akin to saying that a CD-R and the original CD sound the same, just because they are bit-accurate copies. While this is true in principle, I would leave space for the possibility that there are factors of influence that we either don’t (yet) recognize or are not measuring. And that you can’t hear what you can’t measure. Fundamentally this is along the lines of technicians who claim that measurements tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It annoys me sometimes, the ease with which people can generalize and trivialize complicated audio matters, based upon a simple equation.
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At the risk of being called crazy, and even though many people claim that the bit-check programs negate the need for any further investigation, I hereby claim that FLAC files when played back in real-time don’t necessarily sound the same as their original WAV files. These programs check the files bit for bit and can confirm whether or not they are in fact bit-perfect. There are programs that can compare two files, for example, the original uncompressed audio file and the converted lossless file.