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,

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

tukey(0.3);welch;blackman;bartlett;triangle;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);
welch;triangle;nuttall;tukey(0.1);welch;kaiser_bessel;
nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);welch;blackman;bartlett;
triangle;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.1);welch;triangle;nuttall;
tukey(0.1);welch;kaiser_bessel;nuttall;gauss(0.2);tukey(0.3);
welch;bartlett;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:
 so i took the tukey up higher before i posted this and it turned out to loud and no quality at all so whatever i assume i still have a lot to take up when making up the right encoding whatever the idea for the ideal just right encoding however i make efforts. so in this set above i have tukey set a 0.3 on two occasions and moreso i put to intermediary sets of functions in a sort of alignment twice over one iteration after the first blackman and another after the second blackman. this tends to bring out some sort of not so missing quality from the original rip encoding from the songs because from before what is firstly set from other attempts i put the tukey at the 0.5 mark most of the time. the original rip quality comes out and is not so deep because of the lower setting in the value for tukey and somehow its good slightly deep whereas its bearable and still though however percussive much of which the original encoding from the rips are much higher in pitch and percussive quality moreso the attempt on this occasion brings me alittle bit a happiness and im enjoying my effort over some time experimenting. the jlab have also this sort of thing about them that maybe sort of brings to my mind that the phones are really adaptive moreso than sony phones and to my base knowledge from formal experiments insomuch these phones push me into the direction that the encoding in flac allows the phone to make up for in somehow or else they allow much a play in dynamic sophistication. so maybe jlab wanted a headphone for encoding on a more complex level so as much i tend to lean in a little a notice a difference about sony phones moreso you get a sort of flat and set in stone quality much about so much out of sony phones. moreso if i tend to pull jlab and sony phones together the jlab allow a more dynamic organization coming from which maybe the user is at play with how about maybe the media player model is to take on the engineering of the phone to which is maybe formal about the science of the phone. jlab is new company so whatever i dont know and take a round about taste for what is available to me as an opinion jlab is sort of at play with the encoding part of the role in listening becuase i notice the sophistication when i listen after each experiment. all you get out of sony is a set in stone flavor of sound......