[timrichard]

Possibly, depending on the listener.

But why would I bother recompressing when the various media players in the house can deal with the FLAC files just fine? On a typical home wifi network, a track probably transfers in about a second.

[shawabawa3]

right but I was talking about in the context of low latency streaming, where the costs of sending FLAC over <insert modern audio codec here> are considerably higher (in terms of latency, bandwidth etc)