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Congrats Jared. First wait over, second one begins. 
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Prepare to party like a rock star!
Okay, prepare to party like an electronics consumer in a wet climate!
bibere usque ad hilaritatem
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Estimated delivery on the 7th, the day before I leave for Arizona for five days  Saw that coming. Now I have a serious problem. About five years ago my CD collection was stolen when my house was robbed. I was nearing the end of my college days and opted to spend the insurance money on bills (read: beer) instead of replacing the disks, since I had everything ripped to MP3. At the time it seemed like a win-win decision. Now I'm kicking myself in the butt. 
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as long as you ripped them at 320kbps, you should be "OK"
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Or even 224kbps.
You get no sympathy points for new speakers and going to Arizona.
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Who ripped at 320 5 yrs ago? I seem to remember debates at the time between 128 mp3 vs 96 wma as being the "best quality". Only the rich/geeks had the "massive" 60 gb hard drives.
Now of course I'm pushing 1 TB and complaining that FLAC is overly compressed. I love technology!
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M80s/VP160/QS8s/EP350; M22s; M3s.
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5 years ago my hard drive could barely handle my collection at 128kbps. Maybe a quarter of them are 192, but nothing higher really. When I started with MP3s I was a poor ignorant college student drooling over Napster. Lets just say I went the quantity > quality route and now regret it. Anything I've bought recently is at least 256.
Luckily I have friends with books of CDs, and a free TB of hard drive storage, so I can borrow the CDs I never re-bought and re-rip them lossless. In any case, I may be patronizing Amazon a wee bit in the weeks to come.
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Good news on your speaker order sucks that you'll be away right after their arrival. Have fun rebuilding your music collection.
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Thanks.
Any recommendations from you guys on lossless formats? Been doing a lot of reading lately, but having a hard time figuring out what will work best for me. FLAC seems popular, so does Apple Lossless. Space isn't an issue...$120 for a 750 gig hard drive makes me chuckle.
I've been using iTunes lately, because I have a couple iDevices. It seems that most people convert to lossless, and then a high bit rate AAC format for use in mobile devices. What do you guys with do?
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