Posted by Chris Ridd on 01/03/06 20:48

On 3/1/06 8:43, in article 030120062043155515%nospam@yrl.co.uk, "Elliott
Roper" <nospam@yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

I just read the first reviewlet of one of Apple's new "official" car
adaptors - basically it is not wonderful.

<http://nslog.com/archives/2006/01/03/official_vw_ipod_adapter_some_good_som
e_bad.php>

Maybe Dension don't have so much to worry about after all!

Cheers,

Chris

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