On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 17:23 -0500, Mitch Harding wrote: > Is that even true between FLAC and, say, 360 CBR LAME mp3?
It depends. How good are your ears? how good is your system? VBR is nearly always better than CBR. But why take my word for it? Form your own opinion. All the Flac software is free. The SB2 handles flac internally, but even SB1s work with the slimserver. WinAmp has a flac plugin, I'm sure other stuff does. So, make your own tests. See if you can tell. you can tell no difference, then there is no difference. If you can hear a difference, then decide if it is worth doing. Now, the downside to Flac is minimal. The files are a little bigger than your "360 CBR LAME mp3" but disks are nearly free. The difference in setup/rip time is very low. And the upside is that you never have to touch your physical CDs ever again. You can just transcode from Flac to anything else you want. Its lossless. its perfect. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
