title: Is the endianness of format params guaranteed in RIFF WAV files?
body: <p>Is the endianness of format params guaranteed in RIFF WAV files?  I have <a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=204782" rel="nofollow noreferrer">heard conflicting answers</a> to this including references to a <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/format/riff/corion_rifx.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RIFX</a> file format.</p>