Correction - Great March 1, not Great March 2! GM2 is much more $$$.

I'm listening using Senn 580s and a PIMETA. One thing I like about the Zhaolu is the idea of a built-in amp. I love the PIMETA's sound, but it's a pain to keep the batteries fed at all times, and I HATE having it die in the middle of a long recording. However, at this point I mainly care about...

Quote: Originally Posted by appletree Conspiracy theory: which leads me to an inevitable, almost crazy sounding (still I couldn't believe it myself at first) conclusion, that the FLAC encoder does use lossy compresion and to cover it up, it than changes some bits on the output so...

This is probably a bad place for my first-ever post here, so you can chalk this up to lack of common sense on my part. I'm not responding directly to Patrick, and I have no comments on whether he's a nutjob or just trying to start trouble, BUT: It's entirely true that FLAC and WAV can sound...