[Ogresmash]

With my home system it's all lossless. For my portable I use LAME VBR -v1.

 

[donunus]

my ipod has mostly 3.97 v0 vbr. Its my favorite compromise when using my hd595s. I have to see when i get my ad2000s if they are pickier. From what I've read though, they seem to be forgiving with mp3s

 

[sebb]

CDex to 192 kbps MP3 CBR (320 for classical).

Did a lot of testing, can't hear any improvement above 192 kbps.

 

[Quaddy]

whats bitrate?

flac V3.

 

[hardstyler]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sebb /img/forum/go_quote.gif Did a lot of testing, can't hear any improvement above 192 kbps.

Same.

 

[TMM]

about 1/2 is FLAC V8, the rest is a mixture of 320CBR and V0 MP3, and theres a few 192CBR and V2 MP3 too

 

[The_pGo]

Since i bought ipoo nano, most of music in aac 192, some in mp3 320 and few albums in flac.

 

[basman]

rip my music between 192 to 320 kbps, I used sony walkman the clear bass and clear stereo of sony is impressive, really dont like ipods cause the sound quality is crap without an amp.

 

[<GNEFF> killbot]

160kbps aac music and 128kbps aac speach. Sound outstanding thru my P1i and PK3.

 

[Clony]

The fullest of flac or lossless...

 

[zomas65]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sebb /img/forum/go_quote.gif CDex to 192 kbps MP3 CBR (320 for classical). Did a lot of testing, can't hear any improvement above 192 kbps.

mmh, X2 for certain songs, but not for all

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quaddy /img/forum/go_quote.gif whats bitrate? flac V3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate

 

[Julien]

Quote:

Originally Posted by arterius2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif yes its lossless-compressed. kind of hard to understand this concept, but think of it like this: imagine you have this very long essay. in this essay there are bound to have a lot of identical words, such as the word "the" "and" "she" etc.. now lets say you make a index library of these words and everytime this word appears in the essay, the word is subsitute for a pointer to the index library. which means that only one instance of the word "and" will be saved in the essay, but all the other "and" that appears will be pointed toward this "and" saved in the index library. and substitue it when u open the essay. same concept applies to lossless compression in music where identical segments of data are indexed and later retrieved for access. i hope i made it easier to understand using layman's terms.

An even easier way to describe is to use an analogue. FLAC and Apple Lossless (which I use) are like ZIP files for audio. Just like ZIP files they take up about 1/2 the space of the origanal but after decoding are 100% identical.

 

[1012007]

Does anyone with an ipod encode with "Variable Bit Rate Encoding"

Also what file type is best. Apple lossless, Mp3 etc?

Is there any sound difference

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1012007 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Does anyone with an ipod encode with "Variable Bit Rate Encoding" Is there any sound difference

I do! To Apple Lossless..
Sound difference, compared to what? Constant bitrate?