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Which format is better?
nstgc:
I rip all my CDs (yes I actually buy music) as FLAC as well as AAC. AAC is much better than MP3.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Clannad_92 on April 27, 2012, 03:30:26 PM ---so FLAC is good bcause it preserve sound quality?
Interesting...thank s all...
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Yes. If you have some good or high-end speakers - on the plus side, for maximum sound quality, you want a good sound card and real speaker cables for pure quality - and to notice the real difference between lossless vs. lossy. If you got some shit speakers/audio-output/cables then you can go with MP3 or Vorbis.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 28, 2012, 12:35:37 AM ---1) MP3 - most, if not all, affordable portable players supports it. small in size so you could put a whole lot of songs on the player, quality is still great since i doubt you'd be bringing a 500$ headpiece with you.
problems : lossy format. thats it.
2) FLAC - lossless, not as large as wav. good for archives and occasional listening if you want pure quality.
problems : pretty big in size. not every songs has a flac version available. theres only a few portable player that supports flac. needs a really good headpiece and soundcard to be appreciated.
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^ What this person said.
Bob2004:
If your player is capable of playing it (most are these days), then I'd recommend going with Ogg Vorbis (*.ogg). It's basically the same as MP3 in function, but is generally better in pretty much every way. It can match the quality of an MP3 file at as little as a third of the filesize in many cases, and it's a free and open-source format to boot, which is always nice.
If your player isn't capable of playing .ogg files for some reason (ie. if you use Windows Media Player or something - Winamp, Foobar etc, and the vast majority of poratable devices, such as Android, fully support it), then yeah - go with MP3 instead.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on April 28, 2012, 01:07:23 AM ---real speaker cables for pure quality - and to notice the real difference between lossless vs. lossy.
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Of course, assuming the speakers are at least 1kW, otherwise, regular cables are enough, they just need to be thick enough, that's it.
Interconnect cables need to have good shielding, but they do not really need to have 100MHz bandwidth.
kitamesume:
^actually, the length of wire needed is the deciding factor if you need a cheap cable or a good cable, because longer wires has a higher chance of picking up noise. plus longer wires has higher impedance and resistance =p
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