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  • February 26, 2014 at 10:31 pm #2007064
    Yared Lee
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    woops, typo, let that be 256* AAC

    February 26, 2014 at 11:08 pm #2007071
    Alex Moschopoulos
    Participant

    I really don’t know…but I’d probably more likely trust iTunes.

    Many labels pulled up their old masters to make files for Apple.

    In the end, I’d just take a risk. You’re only out a dollar or two if it’s bad. Plus I wouldn’t get too insane on audio quality. Trust your ears first and foremost, and remember most patrons aren’t going to notice the tiny details.

    February 27, 2014 at 8:50 am #2007157
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I recommend iTunes also. Apple (if converted by Apple directly) does not add anything in terms of compression. I have classical music from iTunes that I had previously on vinyl with huge dynamics and the iTunes AAC plus sounds to me the same.

    February 27, 2014 at 3:33 pm #2007197
    Yared Lee
    Participant

    Thanx guys, the reason I really wanted the highest quality possible is because I take after my father with music and DJing and such,.so I adppted his mentality of lossless file preference, but if iTunes can be trusted then iTunes it is

    February 27, 2014 at 10:03 pm #2007235
    Eliah Holiday
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    Logically from the label or distributor the digital track should be off the master (tape or more likely digital) not the dubplate. But mystifyingly I still find new releases that were ripped from the dubplate as when you beatgrid you can see the drift back and forth. For best quality on tracks that don’t have normal wav, flac or aiff releases see if you can hunt down the CD.

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