Posted by name on 05/31/06 02:15

Hi.
Since a long time I've been collecting mp3s (classical, rock, pop,
modern, jazz, blues, reggae, etc..) on p2p. I've always re-encoded
everything I collected to 128 kbps, since this is said to be near-CD
quality by many people. Often however, I encounter people who insist on
192 kbps or even lossless formats. Is there any proponent of 192 kpbs
quality who is able to illustrate the advantage of this difference in
quality by means of a few mp3s (or fragments of them) where this
difference can be heared most clearly? I've heard that for piano music
for instance it's very hard to distinguish between 128 kbps and 192
kbps and I've tried this out for myself with piano music I'm fairly
familiar with and couldn't pick out the higher quality in a blind test.
So I'm interested in some music to put on my mp3 player (iaudio 5) to
listen to with decent headphones (shure e3c) to see if it's really
worth the extra diskspace to collect music at 192 kbps rather than 128
kbps.

Thanks in advance for any help with this request, kind regards, Niek

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