Not this again, the person that said "The first is that any difference is due to the extra load placed on the processor in decoding the FLAC file." is right.
People that argue about the formats do not under stand how it works, it is just a different way of writing the information. An example is below.
Example:
WAV= 1111222233334444
FLAC= 1.4,2.4,3.4,4.4
Both say the same thing but you can already see how the FLAC file has a shorter word length and will be a smaller file. If FLAC or Apple Lossless do not sound the same as WAV on your system do not blame the file.
People that argue about the formats do not under stand how it works, it is just a different way of writing the information. An example is below.
Example:
WAV= 1111222233334444
FLAC= 1.4,2.4,3.4,4.4
Both say the same thing but you can already see how the FLAC file has a shorter word length and will be a smaller file. If FLAC or Apple Lossless do not sound the same as WAV on your system do not blame the file.