I ripped and encoded my collection (about 800 CD's) to VBR MP3's using LAME (alt presets) and for the most part they are indistinguishable from the originals on my equipment (I should probably add that my home theater is not an "audiophile" system.) Please note that I said "for the most part" because there are times when you can tell the difference especially if you are listening for it. There are just some sounds that give the MP3 algorithm a hard time no matter what bitrate you encode them at. It doesn't really bother me much because I can only hear it on a fairly small number of tracks and I usually have to be listening for it.
That said, I do want to rip my collection to FLAC anyway. Mainly so that I can future proof my collection, have a nice backup and be able to quickly transcode to other lossy formats. I just can't seem to bring myself to dedicate the time to re-rip. It seemed to take me forever the first time. -- jtfields ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jtfields's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
