fred7;233970 Wrote: > I did an accidental blind test when I first got my SB3. I was ripping my > 1500+ CD collection in batches and I would listen to the CD's after they > were loaded assesing the SB3's sound. Everything sounded great to me but > then one batch sounded like something was 'wrong'. I looked into it and > I had somehow ripped that batch to MP3 instead of FLAC by mistake. I > noticed right away but I had ripped to 192kbs so at that bitrate it was > probably easy to tell the difference.
192Kb/s is obvious on a decent system. It's fine for portable and even most car systems...that was my first rip level several years ago. I moved to the highest MP3 VBR I could next (ave 250Kb/s - one notch below 320Kb/s CBR) and it sounded great, but if you listened very carefully you could pick out rough areas sometimes...only on a very good system, though. It actually bothers you much more knowing it's MP3 than actually hearing problems, though. Now I'm all FLAC. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 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
