MP3 once you get to 200kb/sec or thereabouts is really, really good. I've made multiple attempts to distinguish them from uncompressed originals and I can't tell them apart. And this is with really good headphones, offboard DACs, etc. -- the same sorts of equipment that generally get me annoyed at places where the mastering engineers made mistakes.
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Agreed competely. I can tell an 128kb/sec from an 160. But I've also found that from 192 kbps and up, I can't tell the difference. Which is why I've ripped all my cd's back in the day at 192kbps. Storage space is cheap though nowaydays, which is why I currently rip at 320kbps. More a no harm, no foul attitude than anything else to be honest.
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