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Is 320kbps going overboard
DaveJ-UK:
I understood 128 was CD quality.
320 is way over the top imo.
crashwg:
After ripping 25 or so CDs at 320, I can honestly reccomend it.
I'm not sure if it's just me and my supersonic hearing, but going back and listening to 128 or even 192 it sounds as though the speakers are under water or at the end of a long hallway.
Thanks for everyone's feedback. Sorry I didn't realy listen to ya though... :P
Minwah:
I rip my CD's at the highest quality WMA variable bit-rate that Windows Media Player allows. I don't understand variable bit rates, but the quality is superb...
I have a 60GB HDD player and <150 CD's so I can afford the relatively large size. WMA's are smaller than MP3's for the same quality tho so I'd go for WMA's...
mr.Curmudgeon:
I've ripped 200+ CD's at 192kbps and they all sound absolutely perfect on every system I've played them on. If you are hard pressed for space, I'd say 160kbps is fine as well. Not much difference, IMHO.
320kbps is WAY overboard.
Zathras:
For my jukebox project I'm planning on ripping them to WMAs at 192bps (if I can only track down a smaller drive maybe even 160).
I am going to be using it for background music when playing games etc so it doesn't have to be audiophile quality.
Just out of curiosity CrashWG what kind of soundcard are you using? - it could be that you have a better quality one so you can hear the difference at 320 whereas the rest of us just have cheapie ones that there is no sound difference on our hardware :)
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