Sony Music/Media Format Player Model: NW-A55
Headphone Model: Sony MDR10RC High Resolution Over-Head HeadPhones

Tool - Lateralus
Format: FLAC cd rip Windows Media Player (Highest "Quality" Setting) - MP3 cd rip Windows Media Player (320 kbps setting)

--> utilizing: freeac audio encoder utility for linux x86_64 for reencoding over original rip encoding

FLAC Mode Options: Custom settings - Joint Stereo <-- (not enabled) , Adaptive Joint Stereo <-- (not enabled)
                                                                 32768 bytes blocksize
                                                                 Window functions(s):
tukey(0.5);blackman;bartlett;kaiser_bessel;blackman_harris_4term_92db;hamming;connes;welch;nuttall;hann;tukey(0.5);gauss(0.2)
                                                                 Maximum LPC Order: 32
                                                                 Quantized LPC precision: 15
                                                                 Exaustive Model Search: (unchecked)
                                                                 Optimize LPC quantization: (unchecked)
                                                                 Minimum partition order: 16
                                                                 Maximum partition order: 16

Signal Processing: 'Best SINC Interpolator' 96KHz Samplerate and 24-bit integer Sample width set for encoding

Post Processing:
  None

On Player Options:
             DSEE HX: Disabled
             DC Phase Linearizer: Disabled

Note:
 Two different formats were encoded to flac. one original flac rip reencoded to flac through freeac with all options set above. another original mp3 rip encoding reencoded to flac through freeac with all options set above