opaqueice;262052 Wrote: 
> It's pretty tough to tell the difference between 320 MP3 and
> uncompressed on any gear.  In my experience being able to do so has
> much more to do with knowing what MP3 compression artifacts sound like
> and choosing passages the encoder has difficulty with than anything
> else.
> 
> But why would you want to do that anyway?  Lossless is a much better
> choice for many reasons.  For example, you might want transcode down to
> a smaller size for use with a portable player.  Doing that starting from
> MP3 is a very bad idea.

X2. Also, hard drive space is SO cheap now it makes no sense not to use
FLAC or ALAC. An external 500gig usb2 HD can be had for 100.00 or less.


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