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Has anyone encountered sound quality depreciation using
64Kbs for recording CD's into WMA format. I have finally
finished recording my entire collection (all CD's... no
cassettes or analog formats) into my laptop... 42 Gigs
and 21,000 tracks. I used 64KBs (space concerns
obviously!) but want to make sure I haven't missed out...
especially when it comes to maybe remixing or editing
(and using hi-end pro equipment...). So far I haven't
noticed any depreciation, except for some easilly
compensateable volume reduction from the CD's that were
in AAD and ADD format (the old versions from the 80's and
early 90's). And I haven't been able to discern a
difference between 64Kbs, 96Kbs, 128Kbs, and 192Kbs...
except the huge files the higher bit-rates create.
Everything I have seen so far suggests that 64Kbs is CD
quality, but nothing mentioned about using hi-end
equipment (clubs, etc) for playback, and definitely
nothing about remixing or editing music. So any input
from anyone who has any experience doing this is more
than welcome, I would really hate to have to re-record
all that all over again. Thanx... DJ KcB
 
Has anyone encountered sound quality depreciation using
64Kbs for recording CD's into WMA format. I have finally
finished recording my entire collection (all CD's... no
cassettes or analog formats) into my laptop... 42 Gigs
and 21,000 tracks. I used 64KBs (space concerns
obviously!) but want to make sure I haven't missed out...
especially when it comes to maybe remixing or editing
(and using hi-end pro equipment...). So far I haven't
noticed any depreciation, except for some easilly
compensateable volume reduction from the CD's that were
in AAD and ADD format (the old versions from the 80's and
early 90's). And I haven't been able to discern a
difference between 64Kbs, 96Kbs, 128Kbs, and 192Kbs...
except the huge files the higher bit-rates create.
Everything I have seen so far suggests that 64Kbs is CD
quality, but nothing mentioned about using hi-end
equipment (clubs, etc) for playback, and definitely
nothing about remixing or editing music. So any input
from anyone who has any experience doing this is more
than welcome, I would really hate to have to re-record
all that all over again. Thanx... DJ KcB
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Your best for audio quality vs. file size is 128Kbps AAC.
 
Has anyone encountered sound quality depreciation using
64Kbs for recording CD's into WMA format.
Yes.

So far I haven't
noticed any depreciation
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Whatever are you listening to them through?

I suffer with high frequency tinnitus and even I can hear problems
with a 64K WMA format.
Everything I have seen so far suggests that 64Kbs is CD
quality
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It's not. Notice that MS have changed the UI in WMP9 so that it quite
rightly no longer says that 64K WMA is "CD Quality".

The only way you're not going to degrade the signal is if you use a
lossless format such as that available in WMP9.

Dave
 
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Whatever are you listening to them through?

I suffer with high frequency tinnitus and even I can hear problems
with a 64K WMA format.


It's not. Notice that MS have changed the UI in WMP9 so that it quite
rightly no longer says that 64K WMA is "CD Quality".

The only way you're not going to degrade the signal is if you use a
lossless format such as that available in WMP9.

Dave
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I listen thru Bose 601's up front, a Bose 100watt center,
and 2 pair of Bose 301's on the back... all hooked to a
Yamaha Reciever pushing 200watts to the front, 50 to the
center, and 100 to each of the rears... and EQ'ed with a
Carver 20 channel... and I don't notice any depreciation.
90% or what I recorded from were DDD and HDCD's... so...
Thanx for the input though.
 
Thanx for the input... see the post I made to Dave for
what I am listening thru. Most of my music is rock and
techno... just a little country classical and other. I
have only noticed slight volume reduction on some of the
recordings (mostly the CD's I bought back in the 80's and
early 90's), but got that using 192Kbs as well... so I
don't think that I could get that to go away. I have not
tried the variable or zero loss bit rates yet... don't
think I will, as the files will be too big. I did this
because I got tired of carrying around 2000 + CD's to my
gigs... so much easier to tote around a computer and plug
it in. For remixing and editing, I will probably just
continue to do what I have always done, straight from CD.
I don't want to run the risk of a poor quality remix or
edit. Thanx again.
 
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