Sony Music/Media Format Player Model: NW-A55
Headphone Model: JLAB Neon 40mm driver Over Ear Headphones(from Target/in store)

Album List:
Tool - Fear Inoculum: MP3 320 kbps internet download cd rip
Tool - Lateralus: MP3 cd rip Windows Media Player (Highest "Quality" Setting)


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

Album: Tool - Fear Inoculum, Tool - Lateralus
Encoding:
Monkey's Audio Encoder - APE Format
Format Setting: High

All Albums Signal Processing:
Signal Processing: 'Best SINC Interpolator' 192KHz Samplerate and 24-bit integer Sample width set for encoding


Post Processing:
 None


Player Settings:
 (to be experimented with for testing quality)

Note:
 Ok somthing different just happend. firstly when i originally tried ape encoding i had the format signal set to 96 sample frequency during the encoding. the encoding didnt sound at all good but when later i realized the player supported 192 khz format sample frequency i realized it would be sort of on the play of better quality (easily to push to next best thing) so today i looked at monkeys web site and it said the quality is 'perfect' (what the site said) so i kept the signal to 192 khz and i encoded the mp3 rip to ape with 192khz 24 bit setting and bam! the quality is astounding... the power to the phone is and the dynamic fencing in the headphone is like up to cd quality thanks to 192 khz actually so ape .... yes this is where i want to be ... i think i leave flac alone for a long time and sooner ill be moving to a better media player. i think ill be trying to aim to buy the nw-a105 thats coming out november 11 2019 and then things will get interesting ... i cant wait.....