Just wanted to actually record that I have modified my stanza on this a year later:
I have indeed re-ripped my favorite albums with FLAC, and for albums I merely like I indeed think that MP3 320kbps is audibly superior to 256kbps. Just for the record, one of those live and learn things. ***A wise man once said: crooner;88066 Wrote: > Try it. Once you go FLAC there's no going back to MP3s. Everything > that's on the CD is encoded even the warts on not so perfect > recordings! > > Besides, hard drive storage is pretty cheap nowadays. I bought a 300 > gig drive and I haven't even used a third of it. > > The main reason MP3 was adopted was the narrow bandwidth of dial-up > internet connections and limited hard drive space a decade ago. I first > found out about MP3s in late 1997, how time flies! > > CD technology was ahead of early PC computers. CDs were introduced in > 1982 and could hold 650 MB of data. By contrast IBM's PCs of those > years used 240 KB low density floopy drives for storage and some didn't > even have hard drives! > > While CDs already offered full uncompressed linear PCM coding in 1982, > MP3s compression was, in my opinion, a step backwards in sonics for the > sake of convenience and economy. > > Well no more! > Now with broadband, WI-FI streaming and huge storage space the time is > ripe for lossless music encoding. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
