[TF1216]

Last night I tested my friend's ears and played a flac file and then the wav file of the same song.  I did not tell him what I was doing when I restarted the song on him half way through.   After the listening session, I asked if he heard a diffence.  He described to me how he heard a difference. 

I heard the same difference but I was thinking it was psycho-acoustics working on me.  I did it again later in the night on myself, with a different song, not knowing which file was being played.  I was able to correctly pick out the flac and wav file.

I am not claiming to have golden ears but I am willing to say I am doing something wrong in EAC.  I followed an EAC setup guide so I am confused where I could have gone wrong. 

Is it possible to e-mail songs in flac format?  Is it legal? 

I compared song 8 from the G3 Live CD and the last song (Ozzy Osbourne cover of Iron Man) from the Bad Plus.  Anyone have the flac versions of these songs?

The flac versions took slightly more than half of the disc space as the wav file.

Please help.

[Carlman]

I used to hear a difference of Flac to wav formats when I ripped with the wrong settings.  Be sure the offset is correct on your cd player.  However, there was something like 'replay gain' that made all the flac's sound kind of flat and lifeless.  I'll check again next time I'm in the sound room to see what that was all about.

I could also send you my EAC profile so you can just use all my settings... but it'll replace everything you've setup.

-C

[TF1216]

Carlman,

That would be great.  Please send me your profile if you get a chance.  I did not think of that.  Thank you.

tyler.folsom@gmail.com