CardinalFang;309297 Wrote: > If we're talking about people on this audiophile forum, and so people > using transporters and SB3 in good hifi systems, I would guess that the > vast majority will be using lossless most of the time. My guess is that > people are only using MP3 because they have some downloads or for some > reason don't want to buy more disk space or also use the same files on > portable players..
All my favorite, well recorded albums are FLACs. That represents about 10% of a collection that consists of about 2,500. I also record them to 320k MP3s for convenience, and keep both - FLAC for listening, MP3 for portability and universal compatibility. Most commercial or poorly recorded music I simply converted to MP3, 256k or 320k (quite whimsically), because it is more than good enough and because of convenience and compatibility. I love FLAC - my issue with it is compatibility across platforms (portable player, car etc). So my using MP3 does not mean I don't enjoy listening to music with high quality - it just means I am convinced I can take the convenience factor of the SB one step further without a penalty in sound for a lot of recorded music. Case in point, and a discussion I had last night with a fellow audiophile in San Francisco after going to the Return To Forever concert: we're there live and there is less staging than if I'd played their music as a 160k MP3 on my home system. Really. No matter, we enjoyed the concert (even though of course they had their self indulgent moments, and Chic Corea shouldn't be chewing gum when talking to an audience, imho). But it just comes to show we sometimes get a tad overboard with this obsession on staging and such. Most recordings have no staging whatsoever, so trying to preserve that makes little sense. And with the loudness wars sadly a lot of resolution has been sacrificed. Many things make many recordings perfectly happy 256k MP#s that no one could tell apart from the FLAC encoded equivalent. But then again, I don't dispute that on well-recorded stuff the difference can be baffling. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40409 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
