Posted by Elliott Roper on 01/03/06 20:43

In article <1h8lv15.4zd52uzxkxihN%black.hole@jonbradbury.com>, Jon B
<black.hole@jonbradbury.com> wrote:

> Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>
> > Even though my ears as old as the rest of me, I reckon that 160
> > Kbit/sec AAC is the minimum bitrate that can't be distinguished from
> > the CD original on modestly priced living room equipment, and that
> > equates to at least 192 Kbit/sec mps and I don't care whose encoder put
> > it there.
>
> Well 128kbps is according to Apple the same quality as a 160kbps mp3.
> Personally I rip everything at 192kbps mp3 to get the best trade off
> between quality and storage space. I don't rip in aac as the fairly
> recent mp3 player in the car can't play aac files and I want my files to
> play on anything.

Yep. Sounds about right. I can't tell the difference between CD, 192
mp3 or 160 AAC. I rip everything at 160 kbits/sec AAC. My car won't do
mp3, so I plug my shuffle into one of those cassette adapters, and it
sounds ok to me. That's a lot cheaper than ripping out the
over-engineered sound in my aging dictatormobile. The good thing about
the shuffle is there is no temptation to take your eyes off the road.

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