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Originally Posted by Hentai11  Trust your ears. I find 320 ABR a happy compromise. v0 is too low, I can hear the loss of quality on the rigs I use. 320 CBR is too high, I hear artifacts in old, low-bitrate analog recordings.
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Whether it's my ears or my equipment, V0 was only just a hair better to me than V2, so arguably using V0 is overkill -- at least for me, at this particular moment in time. I chose to encode everything in V0 just because I don't mind taking a bit of a hit in space for possibility of a little more listening enjoyment overall.
As I'm relatively new to this headphone hobby but have been at least a part-time audiophile much of my life, I realize that even when/if I pull the trigger on the very best equipment, my ears might still be almost as happy listening to V2 as V0s.
Regardless, whenever doing any critical listening (which I wish I had more time for), it's just a lot more satisfying to remove even the slightest audio doubt by going straight to the flacs. Especially with SDXC cards measured in terabytes likely to be available in the near future, listening to anything lossy will just make less and less sense with each passing year anyway.
