Sony_Fan Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Is it just me or does there seem to be a little bit of distortion when you encode at 192, specially loud CDs. When you encode at 256, there seems to be almost no distortion. I just realized this as I was playing back some of my minidiscs and I'm probably going to have to re-transfer my music at 256. Distortion really bothers me, even though it's present when I convert MP3 to ATRAC3plus, but that's because my RH10 hinders MP3 playback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skradgee Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 I don't hear distortion w/ 192kbps, but I do noticeably hear a lack of high end. I've actually had the opposite problem, and hear distortion with 256kbps when ripping from CDs, but that may have something to do with the CD-ROM drive being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 I hear absolutley NO distrotion in either 192 or 256 (and all my library is in 192 about 500 CDs thus far) and I also notice no lack of high end (treble) on the 192k's...And this is from listening in my pro recording studio as well...i think it could be because of the drive used. I don't think the CD ripper in SS is very good/accurate....I always use EAC then import the WAVs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZosoIV Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Modern codecs should be quite transparent by 192kbps (most, like Vorbis and AAC, are reaching transparency in the 130-140kbps range these days; even LAME is rated highly using the -V5 (130kbps VBR) setting). Unless AT3 really sucks, there should be very little difference between 192kbps and 256kbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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