FLAC files from 16/44 CD (WAV) files are smaller than MP3s.

[miguelito]

9 hours ago, dalethorn said:

Not relevant here - the quest for truth needs to know why a solo piano CD (or set recorded in kind) is compressing very much smaller than the average piano CD.  I believe a case can be made that the average compression for modern digital recordings is going to range from 35 percent up.  I don't need more examples of high compression unless the average compression percentage were to drop significantly with a large random sampling.

I think the implication here is that FLAC compression is losing data if it is compressing to that small of a file. How about you do this: Take the WAV, compress it (getting to 24% of the size), then uncompress it back to WAV and do a data comparison. Admitedly, the file headers etc might have changed so doing such comparison might not be possible by just doing diff or similar. @mansr might know how to do this properly.