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Poll Question: Another simple poll. Can you tell the difference between CDs and MP3?
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Points: 8890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2006 at 16:45
CD, obviously.  However, it isn't too important to me.   I usually rip music to my PC @ 192 bitrate, but 128 is acceptable to me (I'm not audiophile).  Anything more than 192 isn't really necessary, IMO.


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Points: 28427 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2006 at 16:47

Of course CD Better yet vinyl.

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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2006 at 16:54

Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Originally posted by porter porter wrote:

like .wma

Not true!

Depends on the bitrate... wma can sound better than mp3.

But uncompressed CD-Audio is unmistakably better than low bitrate mp3 on any system, and when I listen on my Hi-Fi, I'd rather hear CD than mp3 at any bitrate.

Although vinyl sounds best...

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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2006 at 17:44
At its inception, WMA was better than MP3 at bitrates below 128kbps. I may be wrong, but I've never seen any tests or studies showing WMA to be any better than MP3 at any bitrate in the last couple of years (apart from Microsoft, and these are the same people that dubbed 64kbps CD quality ). Generally, I believe WMA and MP3 are roughly comparable up to somwhere between 100 and 200kbps, and above that MP3 draws ahead (obviously everything depends on the sample, too!). If you have any links to anything disagreeing with that, I'm happy to withdraw this post, though
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2006 at 03:16

Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

At its inception, WMA was better than MP3 at bitrates below 128kbps. I may be wrong, but I've never seen any tests or studies showing WMA to be any better than MP3 at any bitrate in the last couple of years (apart from Microsoft, and these are the same people that dubbed 64kbps CD quality ). Generally, I believe WMA and MP3 are roughly comparable up to somwhere between 100 and 200kbps, and above that MP3 draws ahead (obviously everything depends on the sample, too!). If you have any links to anything disagreeing with that, I'm happy to withdraw this post, though

The point was merely that wma can sound better than mp3, not that it necessarily does - I was being picky...

And links, schminks - ears (and reasonable headphones) will tell you everything at low bitrates.

 

 

 
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CD! Definitely

I'm also one of those folks who will only buy music on cd and no paid downloads... paid downloading ruins true music collections

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