Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion


I've seen Steve N. Recommend converting Flac to Wav a few times in the threads. Last night I downloaded DBPoweramp to give it a try. It worked great. Just took 16/44 Flac & converted to 16/44 wav. Then I noticed it offered upconversion capability... It was late, I should have been in bed an hour before, but I sat there and converted another flac file, setting it to upconvert to 24/192... Let it do its thing, hit play, heard music and when I looked up at my DAC, it said 24/192. It worked!. It was late, I had the volume on very very low, everyone was asleep. Sure, I'll listen and report, but 'm wondering if anyone else has tried this and found any sound quality difference between Flac Or Wav @ 16/44 vs upconverting the recording? I and I'm sure others would love to hear your experience, thanks in advance, Tim
timlub
i have not heard difference between wav and flac. If there is a subtle difference, if you convert the flac back to wav via sotware do you get benefit? Or did the wav have to come from original rip. thanks
The greatest and most consistent difference between FLAC and WAV when you rip your CD in both formats and then compare.

When you convert FLAC (ripped or downloaded) then "new" WAV file sound not worse then FLAC, practically 100% in my experience. In addition, many new "WAV" files sounds better (ranging from slight to huge difference) then original FLAC files. I do this conversion now automatically as I know SQ will not worsen but may (may) improve

I have not used DBPoweramp to convert Flac to Wav. I use another tool named DumpMedia to do the conversion job. And I don’t find there is any sound quality difference. I think the tool won’t cause quality loss.


I was told jriver does a better job of transcribing FLAC vs Wav.
Don’t know but the experiments will be oncoming.