Music - which format is best?

[numerobis]

I think this could be done by ReplayGain

ReplayGain - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

but the player has to support it

[utiler]

Ta, will take a look....

[michaliszissiou]

Flac is the best compressed format you can have.
Still, PCM format sounds a bit better though. (wav, aiff, SD2, PCM etc )
Of course, a 24 96 or 192 sound format is much much better.
Being a mac user, indeed, iTunes under OSX is a superb playback device, but not the crap that itunes sells around.
And, yes, I have a very very expensive HI End system here. (still professionally mixing and mastering works of some friends)
Nothing to compare with the already mentioned setups on this forum.

BTW, indeed Pete, vinyl sounds great, if you have the appropriate hi end player and the original vinyls. Else, better not. A 24 96 format, using HiEnd equipment like A to D converters, phono stage (valve based-better) etc, can capture most of it on a digital format.