
Originally Posted by
eleria
Speed is near-flac, compression is equal/better than monkey's audio using lvl 4 preset (called p4 which is maximum).
Excuse me, but its not true. First of all regarding FLAC vs. TAK. You can feed em such options so FLAC will be faster then TAK and vice versa. But generally speaking TAK is faster than FLAC. For example look into the following test conducted using RAM disk and fastest switches. I used Chick Corea - The Ultimate Adventure album as one WAV image. Original size is 773 930 348 bytes.
Code:
TAK v2.0.0 -p0 16.323 518 060 595
FLAC v1.2.1 -0 19.972 544 925 862
FLAC v1.2.1 -l 0 -r 0 --no-mid-side 19.748 547 445 407
Speed optimised compiles from RareWares.org don't help here. For some reasons they provide worser speed than usual compile.
As for TAK vs. APE... You're wrong too. Compression ratio of TAK is not equal and moreover not better than APE. TAK never reaches the same ratio as APE. Look here please. Results given in form of time\size.
Code:
testfile TAK v2.0.0 -p4m MAC v4.06 -c4000
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01_orbital.wav 260 | 478 748 550 143 | 477 052 628
02_4hero.wav 558 | 1 008 998 880 298 | 1 006 754 612
03_chick.wav 271 | 503 451 469 140 | 499 526 784
It was also true with early versions of TAK called YALAC with possibility to almost completely control the codec internals. See attachment.