Quote Originally Posted by Clive View Post
Trouble is that flac will die and wav will be back - if we're talking sound quality. Why? The best players are in-memory. Flacs have to be "exploded" back in a wav for an in-memory player to work. Saving a bit a disk space is irrelevant today, let alone in the next year or two. The processing power used during the explode process with an i5 CPU results in a flac loading in the same time as a wav. Flacs are like disk compression, a passing fad this will be overcome be technology advances.
Not quite sure why you believe this to be true Clive.
If someone does convince audiophiles that there is an audible difference between Flac and WAV then perhaps a small section might just use WAV.
Nor sure that memory players by their nature give the best sound either.