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<blockquote data-quote="acfreema" data-source="post: 6067642" data-attributes="member: 608294">look here for some info comparing mp3, aac, and wma<a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mobile-music,489-7.html" target="_blank">http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mobile-music,489-7.html</a>i am currently seeking a deck that can read aac on a usb device, but nothing reads them, only mp3 (i haven&#039;t tried wma, so i can&#039;t offer any input there)&nbsp; using even reasonably high quality speakers, you can hear a difference in the high frequency reproduction of aac compared to mp3 and wma.&nbsp; will you notice in your car... that&#039;s debatable.going by the tomshardware charts, i would pick mp3 over wma because of the smaller delta between lower frequencies and the loss in the higher ones, and mp3 has great range (drop-off around 15k versus 14k)mediacoder is one of the best transcoding applications that i have found for windows, and it&#039;s free (as is everything else that is worth your time).&nbsp; with the trend in anti-consumer practices, open-source and free programs have been the best stuff to use for audio and video tinkering</blockquote>

[QUOTE="acfreema, post: 6067642, member: 608294"] look here for some info comparing mp3, aac, and wma [URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mobile-music,489-7.html"]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mobile-music,489-7.html[/URL] i am currently seeking a deck that can read aac on a usb device, but nothing reads them, only mp3 (i haven't tried wma, so i can't offer any input there) using even reasonably high quality speakers, you can hear a difference in the high frequency reproduction of aac compared to mp3 and wma. will you notice in your car... that's debatable. going by the tomshardware charts, i would pick mp3 over wma because of the smaller delta between lower frequencies and the loss in the higher ones, and mp3 has great range (drop-off around 15k versus 14k) mediacoder is one of the best transcoding applications that i have found for windows, and it's free (as is everything else that is worth your time). with the trend in anti-consumer practices, open-source and free programs have been the best stuff to use for audio and video tinkering [/QUOTE]

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