I have to disagree on the VBR vs CBR. I find VBR easier to spot than CBR rips. And yes FLAC outperforms CBR. I guess at some higher bitrate it might be increasingly difficult to tell, but 320 is not high enough.
As Pat says, test for yourself. I've been listening to music for 25 years and an audiophile for 15 of those and my system could be described as golden, so perhaps I'm just more attuned to how it should sound and can immediately spot when it's not "right". It would be interesting to do the tests away from my main hi-fi though to see if I could still spot the differences on unfamiliar systems. I can certainly hear the problem on my iPod with 320CBR. Mark -- Mark_H _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
