Speed of hardware makes a difference
when
ripping and encoding. I am one of those “Golden Eared
Audiophiles”
that took a while to come round to mp3. I can still notice small
differences
when playing complex passages through my main HiFi and sitting between the
speakers with my eyes closed, BUT I do use an mp3 CD changer with 4.2Gb of
storage in the car…
I use EAC with LAME (because
they’re
good and free) set to the r3mix reference settings applied as per the
following
The VBR and high/low settings in the
dialog are irrelevant, these are set by the --r3mix parameter (notice two
dashes) together with a 20 kHz low-pass filter. If it is good enough for
me,
then trust me, you’ll love it (and be able to store around 170 tracks
per
Gig) J
While I don’t agree with
everything said
(there’s more than a bit of anti-audiophile sentiment on there) www.r3mix.net is certainly worth a
read.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mouser
[mailto:rmouser@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 August 2002 13:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Sunday
HA
Session
Just as a side......does the quality of hardware make that
much
difference?
I guess sound card is unimportant unless playing
back
through
it?
Many
Thanks
Rob
Rob
Mouser
rmouser@xxxxxxx
rob@xxxxxxx
-----Original
Message-----
From:
Ian
Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06
August 2002 13:21
To:
ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:
RE:
[ukha_d] Sunday HA Session
"oops"
:)
VBR is
Variable bit rate, which uses the appropriate amount of
bandwidth
to
accurately
encode the music... so a very simple passage of the
music
will
only
take
120kbps or so, whilst highly detailed passages get the
extra
detail
required to describe them accurately...
LAME is
an
encoder application (a codec) which is massively
configureable
using
command line switches. I think most MP3 users agree that
LAME
produces
the best
sounding MP3s (although there is much debate on the
settings)
"reference
settings" is a shorthand way of making LAME choose a set
of
options
which are generally regarded as a fine trade-off that won't
have
golden
ears
people howling, or have those of us handling storage
tearing
our
hair out
either...
:)