cd quality vs mp3 quality

[trunks9_us 10+ year member]

how much better is it to have a cd of one song and a mp3 192 kbps or even 320 lets say of the same song will u know a big difference from the the cd vs the mp3 and i do know now theres mp3 compression for say pioneer has it but im not sure how it all works. just seeing how much clarity we really lose when playing mp3s now a days

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[Raven 10+ year member]

Ack! Flashbacks! Flashbacks!

This topic has been done a MILLION times before. Search button is your friend. Direct CD rips with the newest version of LAME, a good bitrate, and some knowhow make for VERY high quality rips that will be quite transparent against CDs. The run of the mill 128/192 KBPS MP3 downloaded off ye-olde internet will be not so high in quality.

Also, just my opinion, OGG / Vorbis mows over MP3 in every possible way except commonplace acceptance.

 

[Skip01 5,000+ posts]

CD is a big diff for some songs for me....i download Young Jeezy- Thug Motivation 101 and than went buy it....was like night and day

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114272

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

CD is a big diff for some songs for me....i download Young Jeezy- Thug Motivation 101 and than went buy it....was like night and day

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[nauc 10+ year member]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114272

that link is awesome, the 192 wma at 12mb is awesome, doesnt really cut until like 19khz, compare that to a reg cd that 88mb //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

I rip all CDs that I buy to my hard drive at 320k MP3 with LAME as a backup. It would be extremely difficult for a human ear to tell the difference between that and the original CD.

 

[envengineer 10+ year member]

Also realize that some CDs are poorly recorded (Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication is the worst I have heard) and bitrate won't make one bit of difference. On the other hand, well recorded albums such as Pink Floy's Dark Side of the Moon (and everything else engineered by Alan Parsons) or Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing, I believe benefit from being ripped in a lossless format.

This is also dependent on your playback devices. I go from my Ipod using ALAC to my Xin Supermacro headphone amp via a audiolineout cable, and then to my Grados, Sennheisers or Ety's and I can hear a difference. On my B&W's with my McCormack pre-amp and amplifier I hear less of a difference. In the car I can hear even less.

You will trade off quality for space to some degree but you have to draw your own line as to what value the space or quality has. I don't think AAC is bad, but I think ALAC or FLAC via exact audio copy are much better.

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

most of my mp3's are 320 kbps and cd's are 14411 kbps so i've read...

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

CDs are more like 1mbps, about 3 times the bitrate / data of a 320kbps MP3. It they were 14411 kbps you'd be talking about 100 megs for a single minute of music.

 

[Skip01 5,000+ posts]

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Yesss.....since that is what he asked