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  • January 6, 2013 at 3:53 pm #34531
    Ess Jay
    Member

    I can hear a little difference, but generally the systems I play on aren’t good enough to tell a big difference, so Mp3 (not 128) seems fine to me

    January 6, 2013 at 8:39 pm #34539
    Jahit Halil
    Participant

    Lossless if you wait to be futureproofed and if your playing on good systems.

    January 7, 2013 at 2:36 am #34558
    Daryl Northrop
    Participant

    99.9% of people cannot hear the difference between a wav file and a 320kps mp3. That being said, since the cost of hard drives is going down and the size keeps going up, there is less and less reason not to just use .wav or flac.

    January 7, 2013 at 7:55 am #34567
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    The general consensus is that:
    WAV is good
    MP3 with 320kb is good
    AAC with 256kb is good
    I play with all of the above and never had a problem.

    Same with digital photography. If Ken Rockwell does JPEG (I use his settings on my Nikon) to make his art, then why the hell would I need RAW.

    January 7, 2013 at 7:56 am #34568
    backtothefront
    Participant

    If you have the HD space and affordability, uncompressed audio is definitely the best way forward, however it is very difficult to audibly tell the difference between a 320kbps MP3 for example, particularly in a noisy club.

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