You should really do some A/B comparisons for yourself. MP3's can sound quite good, if you encode them VBR with high quality presets (I use 0, but anything 2 or less).
The file size when using VBR vs flac is much (*MUCH*) smaller. You give up a little bit in SQ, but you gain a LOT in storage space, which can be important on a portable. When we're talking home use, lossless is the way to go. But on a portable it's sometimes a good idea to make compromises. The good news is that once you get your music stored as flac files, you can transcode them to any format you like. There are many utilities out there that do this, many of these are free. -- nelamvr6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nelamvr6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24602 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
