Apple Lossless, AIFF or WAV for itunes?


I have ripped my collection in itunes to AIFF but as I consider buying a NAS I here most are not compatible with AIFF files...is this true? Of the three which is best for sound quality and maintaining the correct metadata?
Thanks for your help!
theb2826

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I use AIFF. Haven't spend much time comparing the different formats because I find this sort of A/B testing tedious. AIFF seems to be a nice compromise between tagging ability and lack of compression. General consensus seems to be that WAV has the potential for best fidelity while FLAC/ALAC may not sound as good. Storage is so bloody cheap why bother with compression at all? I mean, this is a site dedicated to maximum fidelity, correct? What's a few hundred bucks extra for storage capacity in the context of a most of our systems?