Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire music > library is MP3. > > Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on > the reasons why? > > - you notice no audible difference? > > - you don't have enough storage space? > > - compatibility with a portable player? > > - ease of conversion? > > Just curious.
I would guess the reason for some people is also because mainstream mp3 encoders came along first and therefore people dedicated a significant amount of time/effort ripping their cd collections and building fairly sizeable collections. I'm sure if many of us were to do it again we would go the flac route from the start, especially considering the drop in hard drive costs. That said, I think most people are like me and have a difficult time justifying the time/effort to re-rip for a benefit they probably can't hear. I upgraded my dac, amp & speakers a little less than 6 months ago and right after I purchased my SB3. I thought the new setup would reveal differences between flac and mp3 but it does not. VBR MP3s which are encoded using LAME and the -alt preset standard flag (APS) reproduce excellent sound quality in my experience. -- zooropa320 2 Channel Setup: SB3 * Benchmark DAC1 * Classé Audio DR-15 mono blocks * Magnepan MG 3.5Rs * REL Strata III Music Server: Lian-Li PC-V2000B Case * Turbo-Cool 510 XE Power Supply * Tyan Thunder K8S Pro Motherboard * 3Ware 9500S-8 SATA RAID Card * 2 AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz CPUs * 2 512MB PC3200 Corsair CAS 3 DRAMs * 8 250GB SATA Hitachi drives in RAID 5 http://www.last.fm/user/zooropa320/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zooropa320's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3420 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
