Music/Media Format Product Model: SONY NW-A55 DIGITAL AUDIO PLAYER
Headphone Model: JLAB STUDIO ON-EAR HEADPHONES (wired)

Album List:
Tool - Lateralus: FLAC cd rip Windows Media Player (Highest "Quality" Setting)

--> utilizing: - freac - audio encoder utility for linux (latest AppImage Release from freac.org /w flac encoder version 1.3.3)

freac utility warning: dont set any expirmental 'Resources' options because it will cause irregularity in sound quality

Albums: Tool - Lateralus

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

tukey(0.5);blackman;bartlett;rectangle;hamming;triangle;flattop;bartlett_hann;kaiser_bessel;connes;welch;nuttall;hann;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 Options Settings:
 Best SINC Interpolater: 44kHz Sample Rate

 ^-- Note: if you get your ears right over time the legacy options still work fine but over time in my experience so far the legacy option helps then you can kick in the Signal Processing Option 'Sample Rate Converter' and keep up on some of the changes going on in your ears. This is a really valuable and powerful option....

Post Processing:
 None

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

Player Output Settings:
 -3 Decibal Gain set to: Off
 Same as PCM Gain setting: On

Equilizer Settings on Equilizer Settings on Model Player:
 None (experimental)

Note:
 A long standing previous development....