Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 CA> Seriously. I wrote single-bit sound apps to save raw sound data
 CA> from a DAC and WAV files aren't much different. It's quite
 CA> 'raw' in it's format, that's why they are so huge.

 RT> That I understand, but something I have been wondering about is, is
 RT> there  likely to be a program that loses "quality" while working
 RT> with and saving to  *.wav format. ie. I use CDWAVE to split LP
 RT> sides into tracks, no sound  processing, all things being equal, am
 RT> I likely to loose quality of sound  using different apps to save
 RT> the same "sound data" or is this something that  is not likely to
 RT> happen.

I'm not sure where it was,  but somewhere in one doc file or another I saw
some documentation about the format of some of these files.  I'm pretty
sure that .wav is just a small amount of header information prepended to
what amounts to raw dsp data.  Try man sox,  perhaps?  :-)  If I run across
it again I'll let you know where...

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