VBR is Variable bitrate and CBR is Constant bitrate. The VBR compression algorithm uses higher bitrates for more complex music, and lower bitrates for less complex music. So for less complex music it throws away more data, yielding smaller file sizes. If the same VBR quality setting was used for all the files, and your ears tell you that the VBR files with lower bitrates sound worse, then it's not doing a good job of choosing the bitrate. If the lower bitrate is the result of choosing a lower quality setting, then you should expect it to sound worse.
The Sound Retriever sound was barely improved from *which* direct stream, the mp3 or the flac? Also, you explained why you list your gear in your sig, but I don't see any speakers in that list.... -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31237 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
