"Did you know the reading of optical devices is 'iffy' not like magnetic media. A substantial, 200 meg out of 700 megs is used for error correction data in an audio CD. That is part of the CDa file format. The creators assumed that not every block is going to be read correctly. The error correction is designed to fudge it. If you play a new CD five time it will not be EXACTLY the same each time you play it. So it is is a perfect bit buy bit copy which of the five was the correct one? How could a flac and ape or even a wave be exactly the same bit for bit. None of them are in the same format. The CD stores data in a CDa format which is similar to a wave but isn't a wave file at all. CDa contains error correction information that a wave file lacks, so it can't be a bit by bit replica.
All that said it will sound EXACTLY the same. Our hearing is not very accurate at all. We can't tell lossless with HiFi lossy.
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"Did you know the reading of optical devices is 'iffy' not like magnetic media. A substantial, 200 meg out of 700 megs is used for error correction data in an audio CD. That is part of the CDa file format. The creators assumed that not every block is going to be read correctly. The error correction is designed to fudge it. If you play a new CD five time it will not be EXACTLY the same each time you play it. So it is is a perfect bit buy bit copy which of the five was the correct one? How could a flac and ape or even a wave be exactly the same bit for bit. None of them are in the same format. The CD stores data in a CDa format which is similar to a wave but isn't a wave file at all. CDa contains error correction information that a wave file lacks, so it can't be a bit by bit replica.
All that said it will sound EXACTLY the same. Our hearing is not very accurate at all. We can't tell lossless with HiFi lossy.
"