[NAC] AUDIophile! Stereo Options?

[Huw Powell]

My early MP3s (of things I had recorded) sounded like cheap cassette 
players playing badly recorded cassettes.  Things have come a long way 
since then.  The beauty of the MP3 spec, as I understand it, is that 
encoding is not limited to one standard.  I am much happier with my 
later MP3s.

But as someone mentioned, don't rip to just a compressed format, save a 
parallel .wav or whatever you prefer uncompressed copy.

On 11/3/2010 6:53 PM, Kent McLean wrote:
> Ben Swann wrote:
>> Hated the MP3 sound quality and really did not have the media.  BTW, CDs
>> sounded fine in the AIWA - MP3's just seem to not capture the fidelity.
>
> MP3s can be encoded to the quality to you want. 320 kbps is as good as it
> gets, Variable Bit Rate should be good too. 256 kbps is good enough for me.
> The 128 kpbs you get off the iTunes store is good for cramming a lot of
> music into a limited space. And it goes down from there.
>
> Oh, I am not an audiophile, either.
>

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Huw Powell

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