Legacy in lossless detail Compressed formats flatten edges. FLAC restores them. It lets you hear a hi-hat’s placement off the beat, a vocal breath before a line, the exact clipping point of an overdriven amp. The Police’s songs—lean, bright and rhythm-forward—benefit particularly from that fidelity. The music’s tension, its interplay of space and syncopation, demands a listening environment that preserves transients and decay; FLAC supplies it. The result is intimate yet expansive: you’re both in the studio and in the arena, close to the songwriter and aware of the crowd they would become.