Mental_Medical
Head-Fier
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Since I have some Audioengine A5s coming, I got super excited about the rather daunting task of re-ripping all my CDs into FLAC.
I Googled around a bit, and decided to give MediaMonkey a try. I use Winamp 5, which supports FLAC, but I chose MediaMonkey to rip my CDs. I don't need it to play the music, but the FLAC site had so many options. It ripped just fine.
However, I set the FLAC compression level to 0, but I'm confused. I read that FLAC, though lossless, is still compressed in the sense of smaller files. Should I rip with 0 compression, or can I up it a bit?
Anyway, I don't have my speakers yet (sold my old ones a couple weeks ago), so I was using my Sennheiser HD212Pro headphones. I ripped a CD into FLAC, compression level 0, and then placed three versions of the same song into MediaMonkey to compare quality. The CD track, the FLAC track, and a 192kbs mp3.
Honestly, and I'm disappointed in myself, I couldn't tell much difference. I know my headphones are low-end, but the mp3s seriously sounded very close to the other versions. Please assure me that it's a limitation of my headphones!
I Googled around a bit, and decided to give MediaMonkey a try. I use Winamp 5, which supports FLAC, but I chose MediaMonkey to rip my CDs. I don't need it to play the music, but the FLAC site had so many options. It ripped just fine.
However, I set the FLAC compression level to 0, but I'm confused. I read that FLAC, though lossless, is still compressed in the sense of smaller files. Should I rip with 0 compression, or can I up it a bit?
Anyway, I don't have my speakers yet (sold my old ones a couple weeks ago), so I was using my Sennheiser HD212Pro headphones. I ripped a CD into FLAC, compression level 0, and then placed three versions of the same song into MediaMonkey to compare quality. The CD track, the FLAC track, and a 192kbs mp3.
Honestly, and I'm disappointed in myself, I couldn't tell much difference. I know my headphones are low-end, but the mp3s seriously sounded very close to the other versions. Please assure me that it's a limitation of my headphones!