Converting my CD Collection from .FLAC to .WAV

I am not interested in "metadata" - this is not a server farm I am running here. My Cd's are kept in their own in Progo DVD cases, and I can add all the metadata I want to accompany them in those cases.

This is just some guy burning his own CD's and listening to what can happen. Ultimately, flac's and wavs have the same data. What is different is the internal processing necessary to unwrap.flac files, and that is where - at least with my particular system - the wav files may have a slight advantage. As we all know here on this forum, it is the "slight" advantages that make such a difference to golden ears. This is not a new idea. "Paul" of PS audio also endorses this procedure.

I use JRiver to pre-covert my flacs to wavs. It is quite easy to do, and I hope some of the tweekers here will give it a try and report back to us nay or yay.

Ok - good comments. It needs to be reiterated here though that the proposed reason for converting to .wav is to theoretically eliminate the process of conversion in the transport or DAC - the idea being that the file conversion on the fly inside your gear is potentially adding noise.

Digital downloads.

Jay's Audio CDT mk2 Transport

Denafrips Terminator R2R ladder Dac

Another factor may be CD burn speed. Since music Cd's have traditionally been burned at low speeds to preserve data integrity, I reset the burn speed in Windows Media Player to "slow," and this has resulted in yet another layer of glare disappearing from CD playback. It is possible that the "fast" and even "medium" burn speeds that Windows is factory set to are too fast to guarantee absolute data integrity for music files. Of course, this also presumes that the flac files I am downloading were also recorded at a speed slow enough to preserve data integrity.

I am burning CD's only. That's my storage.

I continue to be impressed with .wav files on my Cd transport to dac to amplifiers system, and further impressed by Cd's that have been burned from my digital files at slow speeds. My theory is becoming that slower speed burns create less "flutter" on the spinning disc. There sounds to be more data on these slower burned CD's. I am hearing more, and what's more a layer of grain or fuzz is gone. I am wondering now if the graininess or glare of some cd playback might just be smears in the data from a too fast burn.

I am also finding the music to be zero fatiguing.