Just my opinion, but flac on a portable is a waste of disk space. With newer versions of LAME and proper settings, I get mp3's in the range from 300-700kbps, and they sound great. I really do not hear a difference between these files and flac files on a portable. [My portable system is not that crappy either - I run an IAudio X5 into a Xin Supermacro3 amp into Shure E4C's or Senn HD600's.]
To be honest, one of the main reasons I got the X5 was its support for flac files, but the space savings on the hard drive with no noticeable loss in audio quality makes it an easy decision now. I use Robin's flac2mp3.pl script http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3 to load whatever I want onto the portable from my flac library. I use lame 3.97 and the mp3 settings are (taken from my flac2mp3 script: # Modify lame options if required our @lameargs = qw (-b32 -mj -q1 -V0); I don't know what these settings mean, but I know they make for a brilliant-sounding mp3 file. Also fwiw I cannot stand listening to 128k mp3's and am seldom happy with any of the 190k mp3's either. But the ones produced by the script settings above are worth checking out. Credit is due to the guy who first posted these LAME settings over in our audiophile forum. -Dan -- dwc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35219 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
