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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
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mapman
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SGR,

Thanks for that info.

Which program is best from a usability perspective in order to just point to a source music library and convert to a target without any additional manual interaction? I"d like to be able to fire off the program just once and have it convert all my thousands of files in one reliable shot.

I get excellent results with wireless lan connection to music server. THis approach provides excellent electronic isolation between noisy computer gear and sensitive audio gear. Also excellent for physical isolation between the two as well.

I think I have heard some similar differences to what you describe between FLAC and .wav, enough to prevent me from going all FLAC so far, but have not done enough critical comparison to say for sure.
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sgr
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Each program works a little differently and they should be able to convert your entire library though it might take several hours. Which format are you going to switch them all too?
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mapman
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I am running a trial version of switch converter software as we speak. Its in process of test converting all my files from wav to flac to see how it goes. Over 21000 files to convert. Should complete this weekend sometime i'm hoping and then will see what i have.
mihaitaa
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In my system, comparing the same WAV to Flac files, I don't hear differences in imaging, but there is just a little more snap and live sound with WAV and maybe a little more blackness. However if one is not comparing them purposely, they are so close that one is really not aware that, "Oh, too bad that was a Flac file not a WAV."
If a WOW system's like Sgr's barely discerns between FLAC an WAV then, I, *a mere mortal* should be just fine with FLAC.
dob
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" If a WOW system's like Sgr's barely discerns between FLAC an WAV then, I, *a mere mortal* should be just fine with FLAC."

May be it has nothing to do with mortality and quality of the systems. May be you both are simply deaf?

Sorry. Can help it!
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