With modern CPUs it’s less than 1% and since we use digital cables like HDMI, you’ll never have that same electronic interference happening. There was a couple times way back in the day when people could double-blind tell the difference between WAV and FLAC, but it turned out they were hearing the difference between electronic interference over analog cable since the CPUs decoding the FLAC files were ancient and so were working at d-mn near 100% to decode. FLAC and WavPack are both mathematically LOSSLESS. I convert WAV tracks to FLAC all the time due to the tag support. I know for a fact that Reaper supports FLAC, I do not believe that Reaper supports WavPack though… If they are over 24-bit, (32-bit float, for example) go with WavPackīoth FLAC and WavPack support all the tagging you’ll ever need. If you want to compress your original WAV files losslessly to take less space and tag them, AND they are 24-bit or less, go with FLAC. Hopefully you’re just collecting data on something Oh yea and I should mention, decoding any lossy format to WAV as an interim does NOT restore quality.ĭBpoweramp is your go-to tool for converting any audio format to any other audio format though, if you’re going to do it. WAV to MP4 is OK as long as you’re willing to accept the quality loss. Please do not convert one lossy format (MP3) to another lossy format (MP4).

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