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has anybody else noticed this about flac audio?

o.k are you ready for some truth friends ? flac has compression levels from 0 to 8 with the official flac default level being 5. now flac is lossless compression so there should be no sound loss from the original source no matter what compression level you use however if you encode the same song using every different flac compression level even though they will all be lossless there absolutely is a difference in the overall sound including tone and sound stage from level to level and doing your own test will only prove me right. now here’s where it gets strange? vintage vinyl has stereo + stereo depth perception (3d sound stage).digital audio has stereo + mono depth perception (2d sound stage) and this includes all new remastered vinyl cut from the digital master. this is why digital audio does not sound like vintage vinyl along with brick wall compression.i find it odd that the only flac compression level not recommended as a default no matter what software you use is flac compression level 4 ? it just so happens that re-encoding digital audio to flac with compression level 4 converts digital mono depth perception back into digital stereo depth perception (3d sound stage) just like vintage vinyl! and i don’t think this is by mistake friends ? do your own test and get ready to have your mind blown. here is an audio sample: level 5 http://pc.cd/pCcrtalK level 4 http://pc.cd/iVWrtalK
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This might be a published fake FLAC file generation.  Really, the only way for you to personally validate this FLAC compression difference is to buy your own audio file converter (such as Aul Converter 48x44) and compress some WAV files YOURSELF.  Then test them and see if you can hear any difference.  Not saying this phenomenon is untrue, just difficult to prove.

I know that there are some older media player software that just do not playback FLAC files with good quality.  This has to do with having to uncompress the FLAC data on the fly.  I think it was Monkey Media Player that really sounded crappy with FLAC files.  I have had no problems with Jriver playing back FLAC and quality, soundstage, stereo imaging and depth has always been excellent.  I know JRiver uncompresses "ahead" and caches data before it's clocked and sent to the DAC.
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