bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
I like the name Eargasm! It sounds messy!
This is the only real way to test this stuff.
Put a couple dozen WAV's one sansa player and all FLACS on another (different colors) and then haphazardly enjoy your music for a few months and see if you tend to grab one player over the other towards the end of it.
@alchemist, why is it crazy?
preference is all i care about, but i've got 30 years of experience with regards to many related things, building instruments, playing music, hifi etc. But i'd agree if one has none of these references to the real world, then preference is meaningless and indicative of nothing much.
I don't think it matters to know how it really works. I just grabbed the phrase chopped up for affect not to be precise. A flac just organizes and then reorganizes doesn't it? If you can explain it in simple language i'd be interested to know, otherwise, I'd rather listen and play music than learn more about technical matters.