Keith G wrote:

"Serge Auckland" wrote


When MP3 perceptual codecs first became popular, I made up a couple of
CDs each with the same track firstly as a straight copy off a
commercial CD, then MP2 and MP3 encoded at different bit rates, some
joint stereo, some true stereo. I was surprised at how good they all
actually were, down to 96kbps even MP2. My experience was that doing
an AB comparison with the original, it was fairly clear which was
which up to something like (it was some time ago, and I no longer have
my notes) 192kbps MP2 and 128k MP3, but after that, it became
increasingly difficult to tell.



When storage was expensive and relatively hard to come by, I digitised
to 128K as the best compromise and I had a player at the time ('MP3Man',
IIRC) that didn't seem to like anything better, in any case!

Nowadays I digitise to 256K because it sounds plenty good enough to me,
even over a 'full-size hifi system' and if 192K is good enough for firms
like Denon:

http://www.denon.co.uk/site/frames_m...detail&Pid=406



Then it (or a little 'better' than 192K) is good enough for me!


And me.

However, I use a lossless codec for the simple reason that, er, it might
matter one day.