o.k are you ready for some truth friends ? flac has compression levels from 0 to 8 with the official flac default level being 5.
This is probably ripper dependent, but sure, you can often configure compression to go between low/fast compression to high/slow compression. I’m not sure the dial is universal to all encoders but let’s say they are.
now flac is lossless compression so there should be no sound loss from the original source no matter what compression level you use
Right.
however if you encode the same song using every different flac compression level even though they will all be lossless there absolutely is a difference in the overall sound including tone and sound stage from level to level and doing your own test will only prove me right
Sorry, my friend, I’ve never experienced this, nor have I heard a difference between WAV (no compression) and FLAC. If there is any, I suspect it is caused by the decompression algorithm and the DAC front end. Could happen, I suppose, but you have to be very gear specific to show this to me because I don’t have this issue.
now here’s where it gets strange? vintage vinyl has stereo + stereo depth perception (3d sound stage).digital audio has stereo + mono depth perception (2d sound stage)
I have no idea what this means, and I can read even less of the rest of this paragraph. Any chance you could slow it down? Thanks,
Erik