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but if he say's there bright, there bright

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Here bright, there bright, everywhere bright bright!

Sorry, lame attempt at grammar humor. Is that even possible -- grammar humor? No? I didn't think so.

hmmmmm, just to be clear, you are saying 128 = 320 ?

No, I was saying I have MP3's at 128kbps to 320kbps. I have a few at 192kbps but most are at 320kbps. Everything I have ripped over the last year or so is at a fixed 320kbps. I'm not a fan of variable bit rates or lower bit rates.

--alt preset standard or extreme to the end!



Y use fixed?

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Y use fixed?

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Bitrate is defined as the number of data points used to approximate the true wave form. Obviously, the higher the number, the more accurately the wave form is approximated.
For example, the current de facto standard is to encode MP3 at 192 kbps, or 192,000 bits per second. The CODEC takes the bitrate into consideration as it writes each frame to the bitstream. If the bitrate is low, the irrelevancy and redundancy criteria will be measured harshly, and more subtlety will be stripped out, resulting in a lower-quality product. If the bitrate is high, the CODEC will be applied with leniency, and the end result will sound better. Of course, the file size of the end product corresponds directly with the bitrate. For those that have enough storage, 320 kbps is as close to the source material as can be attained.

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I have said it before, owning Axioms is like buying an HDTV.

When you buy an HDTV, you realize that many of the DVDs one owns are no longer watchable because they are not anamorphic or just mastered poorly. However, when one watches a well mastered DVD on an HDTV, it is incredible.

The same goes for music on a pair of Axioms, a well mastered CD will sound incredible but you will realize that many of the other CDs in your collection are actually quite poor.

Hip hop is made to sound good on poor quality speakers in big rooms. By getting rid of your Axioms, you may lose the ability to hear classical music. Is making hip hop music sound better and classical sound worse really going to make you happy? What if you find that after 7 months of listening to Axioms, you do not even like the sound of laid back speakers? I know I am keeping my HDTV and my Axioms.

As they say, ignorance is bliss. Oh, and alot of Hip hop artists have Bose speakers in their car, so maybe that is what would make it sound better to you. Honestly, I am serious, maybe with a slight wink, but I am serious.

Well, I'm definitely on the VBR side of things. It just makes sense, use as much bandwidth when needed. Hell all the presets in LAME use VBR, and I trust the ppl that develop that encoder since it is the best one out there.

Sorry for the hijack, it's just normal in these parts

I'm with you INANE. I've been using EAC with the Lame encoder for a while now. Sounds good.

However, considering how cheap harddrive space is these days I'm sorely tempted at times to just rip everything lossless. Why worry about harddrive space (compressing sound) when you can setup a 500gig stripped raid array for $300.00. Shiney!
Oh wait. They are working on an MP3 codec that can do surround sound as well. How large are those files going to be? Ack!

jr

thanks for the responses guys. I think I might try to sell my m60s(not the vp100 or qs8) because most of the music i listen to is poorly recorded pop. Although I its probable I will lose out on classical recordings I would rather have decent classical and decent everything else then great classical and bad most everything else.