Re: New Thread: Preferred Formats

Indeed. See...when I started with the ATs, I thought that it made sense to go to WAV as I had the hard drive storage, and it seemed logical to me to burn CDs (for the car) from the WAV files (as well as making nice mixes from the WAV to cda) so as to preserve the original CDs (i.e. so that they don't get scratched as they often do in a car). That way I would have a 1:1 copy of each file, and my main audio system is fairly high-end, so compressing music for the main system didn't seem to make a lot of sense.

Like I said in my original mail query...I rip the WAVs to 192 MP3 and keep those on a separate (older and smaller) drive, which I use to write to my iRiver 40 GB portable and my wife's (now old) 128 MB Creative memory stick player. I find this very useful (the iRiver loaded with 192's) for travel (I travel a great deal for work) as well as for use in the car (via an adapter); very cool to just put the player on 'random' while driving to work. Nice...because if it's on the iRiver it's a song that I put there, and therefore, one that I like, so I know that I'll hear something good, even in random mode.

One of these days (and it won't be long to quote Led Zeppelin) there will be (truly) cheap vehicle HD storage with 802.11 G I/O so that I can just load what I want on the car HD system (I have heard of the Phatbox...) when I pull into the garage at home.

Now just to build my new media server....then...all will be right with the world (well...for a while anyway).

Technology.........

"Abraham, Howard E." <[email protected]> wrote:
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.

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From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Jay
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:16 AM
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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...

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