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192k is the happy medium...

everything i've ripped from my cd collection (some 700 discs strong at one point) is
now all in 192kbit/44.1khz mp3 and aac formats (depending on when the music
was added to my library). the big reason i choose these formats is due to space
efficiency (i'm figuring that 90% of my 11,000 songs are in these formats, and it's
47.5 GiB of hard drive space) and has a high-quality sound to it, even with classical
music (no "ringing" or "underwater" sound at my desktop with logitech z530
speakers, or even going through my denon receiver and mid-end polk speakers
through an ipod shuffle using dock audio or appletv using optical audio).

256kbit format is often overkill for any musical format, unless you plan on playing
the music back on high-end audio equipment (like, for instance, a bang and
olufsun that costs more than most cars do). it's only then that you'll start to notice
issues with the very high frequencies of the audio. at that point, you might as well
encode at 320kbit or use a lossless encoder (such as flac, apple lossless, wma
lossless) or standard PCM audio (WAV or AIFF at the source's original frequency), so
you can listen to the material the way it would be intended to be listened to.

Posted by: nix_hed   Posted on: 08/22/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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