Re: New Thread: Preferred Formats
"Abraham, Howard E." <[email protected]>
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Previously, I ripped everything to 320K MP3. However, after listening to that for over a year I pulled out the original CD and was amazed at the difference between the MP3 and the CD. I'm slowly converting to WAV now and all new music gets ripped to WAV. I still keep the MP3 around for portable players. -----Original Message----- From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Jay Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AT] New Thread: Preferred Formats All: I was just wondering ... of those who read this list, what format / sample rate etc do you use and why? Speaking for myself, I elected to rip everything to WAV as I use the ATs in fairly good home audio systems; I have a separate drive to which I rip the content to MP3 at 192 (which I find to be a reasonable compromise between fidelity and file size as well as manageable for portable devices). I elected WAV as ny de-facto standard as I figured if I was going to archive my collection, given the affordability of drives (and getting more so every year) I should stick with the best fidelity possible. I only ask the question because I have read with some interest comments about the quality of the DACs in the AT and I wonder how much of the grousing about them comes from playing back (heavily) compressed files and expecting uncompressed results. I don't want to start a flame war...but to my ears...playing WAV files using the on-board DACs is actually very good overall. Just wondering... -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 12/30/2004