Sony Music/Media Format Player Model: NW-A55
Headphone Model: JLAB Audio Neon 40mm Over Ear Headphones
Album List:
Tool - Lateralus: FLAC cd rip Windows Media Player (Highest "Quality" Setting)
Tool - Fear Inoculum: FLAC internet download cd rip

--> utilizing: freac audio encoder utility for linux (latest AppImage release) for reencoding over original rip encoding

Albums: Tool - Lateralus, Tool - Fear Inoculum,

freac utility options WARNING: be sure to not set the Resources option to any expirmental settings. It greatly affects the sound quality especially the custom settings with flac encoder

FLAC Mode Options: Custom settings - Joint Stereo <-- (not enabled) , Adaptive Joint Stereo <-- (not enabled)
                                                                 32768 bytes blocksize
                                                                 Window functions(s):

tukey(0.5);blackman;triangle;bartlett;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);triangle;nuttall;tukey(0.1);kaiser_bessel;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);blackman;triangle;bartlett;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);triangle;nuttall;tukey(0.1);kaiser_bessel;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);hann;nuttall;gauss(0.2)

^-- each line has a line break after it so paste line by line not entire set becuase youll cause the encoder to not encode with valid options. be sure to take each line with copy and paste line by line in Window function editor box in the flac encoder window)

                                                                 Maximum LPC Order: 32
                                                                 Quantized LPC precision: 15
                                                                 Exaustive Model Search: (unchecked)
                                                                 Optimize LPC quantization: (unchecked)
                                                                 Minimum partition order: 16
                                                                 Maximum partition order: 16

All Albums Signal Processing:
Signal Processing: 'Best SINC Interpolator' 192KHz Samplerate (sample width not set for post processing manually. 24 unsigned width is set due to the 192khz sample rate by default)

Post Processing:
 None

Player Settings:
 DSEE HX: Off (experimental)
 DC Phase Linearizer: Off (experimental)

Player Output Settings:
 -3 Decibal Gain set to: On

 Same as PCM Gain setting: Off

Equilizer Settings on Equilizer Settings on Model Player:
 None

Note:
 This encoding is like a holy weapon....