1. FLAC won't compress a wav in 48kHz. Any way to compress 48kHz wav's? Currently doing all my recording in 16/48kHz and I'd like compress them before I archive them for my personal use.
FLAC does compress 48kHz files. I've used FLAC frontend many, many times for both 16 bit, 48 kHz files, and 24/48 files. what seems to be the problem with FLAC
2. Any way to burn the music to a playable media in 16/48 so I can listen to a show in 16/48 and compare the same show I've recorded and re-sampled to 16/44.1? Or is this comparison so slight I'm just wasting my time anyways?
you can burn 16/48 files to either DVD-Audio (with DVD-Audiofile or discwelder, for example), or to a DVD-Video disc (with "audio-dvd-creator")
I've burned many 16/48 shows to DVD, mostly to get the whole show onto one disc. although it is also nice to have the original recording, unaltered in any way, available for playback without going back to the DAT.