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she claims that FLAC cannot yield bit-perfect copies of WAV files
Interesting assertion, as is the one that Naim can rip more accuratetly than iTunes, which can be setup less than ideally for ripping. I'm not disputing what anyone heard at the demo. A larger issue pertains to people who have already ripped files from other softwares such as EAC or CDParanoia, which are also widely regarded as well, exact.
Is Naim better than those, as well? Interesting that they would recreate that wheel, with essentially no related history of such software development, but not create their own streaming protocol.
AIFF (or ALAC, or FLAC) retains metadata, unlike WAV. But then AIFF or ALAC would break the UPnP kludge crutch.