When you talk of re-ripping all your discs I would ask how they were originally ripped? Was it high bitrate mp3 or was it low bit rate? The reason I ask is I had also ripped my CD collection to mp3 (about 1,000 albums) using VBR highest bitrate / highest quality (LAME -v0 -q2). I started talking to my son a few years back (who's a party kind of DJ) and told him I was thinking of re-ripping all my CD's to FLAC. His only comment was "are you crazy?" "do you really think you'll be able to tell any difference?". He said he uses high bitrate VBR MP3 exclusively for his business. He challenged me to rip one of my favorite CD's to FLAC and see if I could tell the difference between the FLAC and the MP3. I really wanted to hear a difference, but honestly couldn't. Then along comes Archimago in these forums and he puts up a challenge to the group. You might find the thread interesting. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98010-RESULTS-Blind-Test-MP3-vs-Lossless-out-now After listening to my son, doing my own little test (not double blind, but I think I was pretty objective) and then reading through that thread over in the audiophile section I've come to the conclusion that I'd save myself a couple of months worth of work by just sticking with high quality MP3's. Funny, I've not had a single comment from anybody I know about the quality of my recordings. I have had a couple of friends ask about how I did all my music and then play it on the stereo though. 2 have since invested in SB and couldn't be happier!
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