If it's headphone you wanna use to test with, try Open Your Ears - a collaboration between Head-Fi & HD Tracks.   https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD666666666666 There's a Head-Fi forum thread discussing about it too.  ...

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/27/apples-lossless-audio-codec-alac-now-open-source/   Considering how massive iOS device is in the music player market, sounds like ALAC is now definitely a worthy alternative to FLAC for lossless audio files!

I can't believe this. I just bought my clear SE535 3 days ago!!! ARRRRGGGHHH would have considered this one... *crossed*   EDIT: Found more info from a Chinese website. http://www.lyra-media.com/news_details.php?id=120   From the description (yes I can read Chinese) the difference is...