AIFF for me too. While I haven't done any head-to-head comparisons, these days storage is so cheap that I prefer to stick to an uncompressed format - and of course AIFF doesn't have the tagging problems of WAV.
On one of my back-up drives I keep all of my downloaded music (HDTracks, Qobuz etc) in FLAC format to save time and space Essentially I download in FLAC format, transfer the FLACs to a back-up drive, and convert the FLACs to AIFF for my primary drive.
I don't have enough time or patience to compare the two formats and don't really trust such testing anyways. I just reason that if fidelity is the ultimate goal, there is absolutely no advantage to unzipping during playback.
On one of my back-up drives I keep all of my downloaded music (HDTracks, Qobuz etc) in FLAC format to save time and space Essentially I download in FLAC format, transfer the FLACs to a back-up drive, and convert the FLACs to AIFF for my primary drive.
I don't have enough time or patience to compare the two formats and don't really trust such testing anyways. I just reason that if fidelity is the ultimate goal, there is absolutely no advantage to unzipping during playback.