has anybody else noticed this about flac audio?

sam here thanks for all the input.i am by no means an audiophile  and i don't mind someone saying i'm full of crap?

 i understand how crazy this sounds however there is a noticeable difference between vintage vinyl and digital audio and i believe that difference can be greatly reduced by re-encoding to flac with compression level 4 my test prove it to my ears perhaps somebody could do a quick re-encode and do there own a/b test?

also when i made a 1 gb virtual hard drive from my pc's ram memory and import audio into the virtual ram drive and play the audio from the ram the sound quality is improved 100% like listening to the studio master tape can somebody explain this?

I've never had a problem with any of my flac files. Flac is the musical equivalent of the zip file used for compressing computer program and data files. There is no data lost or changed. Higher compression levels for flac (which makes for smaller file size) do require more processor work to decode, but I doubt that has been a problem for most modern PCs for a decade or more.

I converted most of my vinyl (well over a thousand albums) to digital over a ten year period, so there was a lot of material I was able to compare back-to-back. I've found a careful digital conversion of a LP sounds just as good as the vinyl.

IMO, most of the complaints about digital music have to do with the fashions and fads of the time period when the recording was made -- think of the "loudness wars". Due to the technical limitations of cutting vinyl, it is much easier to pull off a loudness war recording with digital. That's just one example. Digital recording has a lot of "toys" available, and if you give toys to boys, they will play with them. That said, digital, and the flac format, is perfectly capable of outstanding recordings -- there are plenty out there if one looks for them.

also when i made a 1 gb virtual hard drive from my pc's ram memory and import audio into the virtual ram drive and play the audio from the ram the sound quality is improved 100% like listening to the studio master tape can somebody explain this?

That sounds like you have a slow over-taxed computer, that is also possibly noisy. Given you said you are running Window7, I am going to guess it is rather old?  Something that old may need a lot more processor % horsepower (comparatively) to decode FLAC, and with rotating media, it would be pulling somewhat at random from the drive to fill the buffer, with whatever other hard-drive thrashing it is doing.

sam here and i'm not saying there is anything wrong with flac

please listen to these two cd audio samples re-encoded using Aul converteR 48x44 sample 1 is flac compression level 0 sample 2 is flac compression level 4.same source 

1) http://pc.cd/R77otalK

2) http://pc.cd/CgV

if these 2 samples sound the same i'm losing my mind? the only difference is flac 0 and flac 4.

Guitarsam - the levels have to do with the level of compression achieved, but all are lossless. The more convoluted (literally!) a code you use, or the more passes, the longer it takes,and the better the compression will be. In fact the differences are HUGE, like 15:1 worst case, so it matters to anyone who cares about time invested. It does not change the digital output one bit (also literally). Nothing new to see here, move on. Well, maybe something new to learn here, read on.

What is also not new is that someone heard differences, where none exist, because they expected to hear differences.

I have had this hit me in reverse as well. I just **knew** the cables made no difference so i ascribed a difference to components. until i switched the cables and the sound differences also switched. Damn.

So don’t feel too bad about it, but recognize what you just learned.

Its all described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
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