Digital File Types

[JohnNB]

My Marantz CDP has a USB input so I've started putting music downloads on a USB stick. I find it more convenient than logging on to the laptop, and it's resulted in me listening to more digital music as it's so easy to access. I've got mostly Flac files, and some MP3s. The Marantz won't play Flacs, so I've had to convert them to WAVE, which plays well.
The WAVE files use up more memory, so does this mean better sound quality? They sound more detailed to my ears, but I could be wishing them to sound better! I've also converted the MP3s, and there appears to be an even bigger improvement in sound than that between Flac and WAVE.

[struth]

My Marantz CDP has a USB input so I've started putting music downloads on a USB stick. I find it more convenient than logging on to the laptop, and it's resulted in me listening to more digital music as it's so easy to access. I've got mostly Flac files, and some MP3s. The Marantz won't play Flacs, so I've had to convert them to WAVE, which plays well.
The WAVE files use up more memory, so does this mean better sound quality? They sound more detailed to my ears, but I could be wishing them to sound better! I've also converted the MP3s, and there appears to be an even bigger improvement in sound than that between Flac and WAVE.

yeah my car wont play flac from usb. i converted to mp3 and in car you cant really tell imo. better compatability with metadata too

[Filterlab]

This is handy as a quick overview...

http://www.whathifi.com/amp/advice/m...mats-explained

I choose .aiff for that sort of thing, but .wav will do you the best as it's relatively widely used. Always go lossless when possible.

.mp3 is a terrible lossy codec, whereby data that the conversion process 'thinks' carries no information, is removed.

[Silent]

If you have the space, go with WAV. Completely uncompressed and no loss of information. I know there's far more detailed explanations out there but to be honest, I think it's fairly safe to stand by the rule of 'more information = better sound quality'.

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[Macca]

FLAC has the exact same info though. Both formats are lossless.

[Silent]

FLAC has the exact same info though. Both formats are lossless.

Completely agree but with hard drives being so cheap and black Friday deals on 4 & 8TB drives making them highly affordable, I just personally feel a certain piece of mind knowing the file is free of any compression, even lossless. OP's hardware can't read FLAC in this case so WAV it is but I see no reason in general not to use WAV unless you're trying to conserve space.

But ultimately I have no proof that WAV and FLAC of the same rip are any different in any way other than size...I can't even tell you they sound different (and that's the whole point is it not?) lol...

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[struth]

wav used to have issues with metadata, and was one of reasons i avoided it(apart from extra space) I do all mine in flac now, after trying a few it seemed the best overall and most used(outwith apple)

[Gazjam]

24 Bit Flac is the gold standard for me,

Bitrate's good 44K and above.
Neglagable differences above 44K but they are there...but 24bit vs 16bit makes a discernible difference imo.

[struth]

24 Bit Flac is the gold standard for me,

Bitrate's good 44K and above.
Neglagable differences above 44K but they are there...but 24bit vs 16bit makes a discernible difference imo.

when i digitised my vinyl i used 24 bit. it sounded better

[Silent]

when i digitised my vinyl i used 24 bit. it sounded better

How did you digitise your vinyl? Is it all in the player? Because I used to have a cheapy record player that advertised that but all it inevitably did was record the vinyl as it was playing and saved it to an MP3, no software I experimented with gave me the option for a higher resolution file type or higher bit rate...

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