FLAC sounds Better than ALAC on foobar?

[peck1234]

Yes I know it doesent make sense.  I just got into foobar with WASAPI Push (Bit-Pefect Play back) on my Titanium HD (Audio Creation Mode)  
My entire collection of songs consists of ALAC.  I figured why not convert a song to FLAC and see if there's any audable diffrence?
 
Well after about 10 A/B test's and mixing the files I chose the same version of the song in FLAC over the one in ALAC?  It just sounds more dynamic? 

 
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[StudioSound]

Both of them are open source codecs. I would be very surprised if either of them is being decoded wrongly.

 

[andrewberge]

In a sighted test, there's no way to know if your brain is playing tricks on you (that pesky thing! ).
Foobar has a good, easy to use ABX component, you should try it.

 

[chewy4]

Use the ABX comparator plugin. Then you'll see that they don't actually sound different.
 
FLAC=ALAC=AIFF=WAV=WMA Lossless=APE as far as sound quality goes. The only difference is compatibility.

 

[peck1234]

Going to try some abx tests