Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus

Grege, Shadorne - my experience has been the same. While I'm perfectly willing to accept that some people can distinguish differences between lossless files and high bit-rate mp3's, what I've found is that at 256 or 320 kbps I stop thinking about the fidelity and just enjoy the music.

Reading all this gives me a headache. I've been thinking about getting into computer audio, buying a dac etc, then all the different connections, high rez, low rez, obsolete next month- I yi, yi.

Computer audio IS a headache and one you need not suffer. You are not alone in your sentiments.

Neal

Wildouts - you need not get a headache with computer audio. iTunes is FREE. You can easily rip CDs using iTunes and code to AAC at a MINIMUM of 256K or 320KB rate. Just make sure that error correction is turned on in iTunes.

On the other hand, I listened to a few CDs last night on my $25 Sony Playstation One (PS1) and it sounded incredible. It's a great time to be a music lover and and audiophile.

Update: I'm using XLD -> AIFF.

I recently decided to start using XLD to rip (and re-rip CD collection) to AIFF.