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Five,
I just dl'd Foobar 2000 and checked both flac and wav back to back.
Same thing happened in Foobar2000. Wav plays slightly hotter than Flac. (the wav seems to have more punch with identical stettings, I can turn up the volume for the flac and they sound identical then.)

1. Is it possible to record directly to flac or does it have to start as a wav and then be compressed?

2. Is it possible that the slight volume drop is noticeable to me because I have worked with this recording since it was made Saturday and I'm actually making a big deal out of nothing?

Uhclem,

1 yes to replaygain

2 yes to same volume settings (hence original question)

I'm going to try to reconvert one track back to wav ane see if record level diminishes further or returns to the level of original wav.

Thanx for all the help so far folks It is greatly appreciated.