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<blockquote data-quote="esanthosh" data-source="post: 1449291" data-attributes="member: 33844"><p>It depends on a few things actually - the ability of your ear to hear + your brain to process information (sometimes audiophiles are under the influence of 'false reality' called placebo), the quality of the original rip, the quality of the encoder, the quality of the source to bring out every tiny bit of nuance to your ears and the ear phones themselves.</p><p></p><p>For most portable players, 256 kbps VBR / 320 kbps should suffice. I keep FLAC around in a few players with which I do reviews, but for normal listening, I usually stick to 320kbps. For space starved players (Creative Zen V Plus @ 2 GB, Sony E353 @ 4GB - which do not support external cards), I am happy with 256kbps VBR. I ripped the CDs using EAC into FLAC and store it on the PC (where Cost per GB is very low) and convert that into MP3 using foobar for portable players. I also recently tried <a href="http://freac.org/" target="_blank">fre:ac - free audio converter</a> for conversion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="esanthosh, post: 1449291, member: 33844"] It depends on a few things actually - the ability of your ear to hear + your brain to process information (sometimes audiophiles are under the influence of 'false reality' called placebo), the quality of the original rip, the quality of the encoder, the quality of the source to bring out every tiny bit of nuance to your ears and the ear phones themselves. For most portable players, 256 kbps VBR / 320 kbps should suffice. I keep FLAC around in a few players with which I do reviews, but for normal listening, I usually stick to 320kbps. For space starved players (Creative Zen V Plus @ 2 GB, Sony E353 @ 4GB - which do not support external cards), I am happy with 256kbps VBR. I ripped the CDs using EAC into FLAC and store it on the PC (where Cost per GB is very low) and convert that into MP3 using foobar for portable players. I also recently tried [url=http://freac.org/]fre:ac - free audio converter[/url] for conversion. [/QUOTE]
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