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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Bolt" data-source="post: 92382" data-attributes="member: 3950"><p>Re: Audio Files - best quality</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Agreed.</p><p></p><p>To the OP, my personal favorite for lossless is FLAC since it is a free and open standard. Apple lossless is also good for the stuff you really want to sound good.</p><p></p><p>You can get surprisingly good sounding MP3's <strong>IF</strong> they are encoded correctly. If you use something like Adobe Audition (or pick another pro editor of your choice), you can pick your encoding. To my ears, a 320Kbs VBR (variable bit rate) file sounds "pretty good" while the original lossless format would be "excellent".</p><p></p><p>As others have attested, the original recording quality (especially of older music) is likely going to account for MUCH more of the difference in sound quality than the difference in quality that most decent encoded formats would produce.</p><p></p><p>lossless file formats (or original PCM WAV format) are just cumbersome to move around IMHO. Sure, Terabytes are cheep, but it still takes a ton of time to move a terabyte across your USB to your audio device!</p><p></p><p>You know what really gets me? <strong>MOST</strong> people can't hear the difference between CD's in a car and XM radio .... even with a high quality car stereo. It is just sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott Bolt, post: 92382, member: 3950"] Re: Audio Files - best quality Agreed. To the OP, my personal favorite for lossless is FLAC since it is a free and open standard. Apple lossless is also good for the stuff you really want to sound good. You can get surprisingly good sounding MP3's [B]IF[/B] they are encoded correctly. If you use something like Adobe Audition (or pick another pro editor of your choice), you can pick your encoding. To my ears, a 320Kbs VBR (variable bit rate) file sounds "pretty good" while the original lossless format would be "excellent". As others have attested, the original recording quality (especially of older music) is likely going to account for MUCH more of the difference in sound quality than the difference in quality that most decent encoded formats would produce. lossless file formats (or original PCM WAV format) are just cumbersome to move around IMHO. Sure, Terabytes are cheep, but it still takes a ton of time to move a terabyte across your USB to your audio device! You know what really gets me? [b]MOST[/b] people can't hear the difference between CD's in a car and XM radio .... even with a high quality car stereo. It is just sad. [/QUOTE]
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