Lossless vs Lossy for me depends on the type of music I listen to. For anything that uses any sort of instruments, it's lossless only. For music made using computer equipment (e.g. dance) I don't really have a preference but if I had to choose I'd go lossy for the storage space savings.
I did a comparison using a spectrum analyzer on a piece of music that was ripped as a wav and then encoded as a .ogg, .mp3 and .wma at the "then" available maximum settings. Upon comparing the music it was evident that each of the compression versions had missing information. The worst of the bunch was the wma, it was missing whole blocks of information. The best of the bunch was more selective in what it cut out and that was the .ogg. I didn't do a listening comparison because my listening equipment consisted of a pair of crappy logitech computer speakers...I was a broke student because I spent all my money on beer ;-) -- george_k ------------------------------------------------------------------------ george_k's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2519 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43910 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
