So we know they`re fake but how do they sound out of curiousity?

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Quote: Originally Posted by xnor I don't see why it's bad to protect people from their own stupidity. Its bad because it doesnt promote personal responsibility. It makes people lazy and stupid because they rely on their government for everything. Unfortunately my own country...

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Most definately fakes. The carrying case is different to my pair. My pair also have lines of nubs with different size labels to store the different sized ear pieces on too. Mine are legit because I bought em at a major Japanese electronics store, Yamada Denki in Shibuya.

Most definately fakes. The carrying case is different to my pair. My pair also have lines of nubs with different size labels to store the different sized ear pieces on too. Mine are legit because I bought em at a major Japanese electronics store, Yamada Denki in Shibuya.

Quote: Originally Posted by ILikeMusic No doubt there, most would cringe if they had to go back to what they were using ten years ago, even if it was state-of-the-art at the time. But then again encoder technology has been improving right along with the hardware over the years. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by somestranger26 Why don't you just accept that FLAC == WAV == LOSSLESS since you don't seem to have a modicum of understanding digital file formats. There seems to be a fair few doubters of the FLAC IS GOOD hivemind in this thread so I`ll reserve...

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I dont know what my favorite is but some pretty great bands IMO are: REM The Supremes Guitar Wolf Sonic Youth Dinosaur Jr Pearl Jam Teenage Fanclub Neil Young

Trust me, dont take a job for granted. Some people dont`t even have any job, me included.

Quote: Originally Posted by Olev One example of non-audio data in WAV files are tags - just like MP3 some programs allow to enter artist, song etc info to a tag in WAV. This has NOTHING to do with audio data. I believe it was also posted earlier in the thread that WAV files do...

Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi A FLAC does not throw away any data. None. Every single bit that is in a WAV is also represented by the FLAC. I guess you missed this when it was posted earlier in the thread, from the FLAC website: Quote: Why doesn't FLAC store all WAVE...

Okay, I may be mistaken but can you please define what exactly this `non audio data` that is apparantly present in .wav files IS, if it is not audio data?

I think the interesting thing that has come out in this thread is FLAC defenders going from the line that `FLAC is EXACTLY the same as WAV once decompressed!` to `FLAC only disposes of the NON AUDIBLE data in WAV files, everything you can hear is still there in FLAC!` That is the key I think...