russelk, it requires quite a bit of transparency to easily hear it after 256kbps. To me MP3 sounds like it has less air, congested, more mono, less transparent and spacious. More simply said it's muddy and has more bass. Because they usually cut high frequencies and overlap sounds so that if there is a big punch you don't hear anything behind it.
None of these will strike you like a day or night difference. And you might need to crank it up to be easily heard. Start with 128kbps and move up a notch, 128 should sound like broken and kinda "dusty". But if you usually don't hear an extended high frequency range it might be very hard to hear the difference in general. -- nuhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nuhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10571 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39112 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
