# Anyone switched from CDs to MP3s for their home stereo?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 25, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-switched-from-cds-to-mp3s-for-their-home-stereo/252175 "2004-06-25T14:07:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-switched-from-cds-to-mp3s-for-their-home-stereo/252175/21 "2004-06-26T19:46:03Z")

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Maybe its just me and my lowbrow ways, but a $10 pair of computer speakers plugged into my MP3 player has been a perfectly fine home audio system. I can’t tell any audio difference between that and any other stereo i’ve ever listened to.

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**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-switched-from-cds-to-mp3s-for-their-home-stereo/252175/22 "2004-06-27T03:29:01Z")

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> [@Wesley Clark](#):
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> Maybe its just me and my lowbrow ways, but a $10 pair of computer speakers plugged into my MP3 player has been a perfectly fine home audio system. I can’t tell any audio difference between that and any other stereo i’ve ever listened to.

You’re an extreme example but I guess I’m also in the deaf crowd. I rip my CDs with LAME into 128kb mp3s, and it’s fine for me. Through my midrange computer speakers, no less. Yeah, if I try I can hear the difference between it and a good speaker system, but it’s fine for me as it is. I guess some people’s hearing is just more sensitive.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-switched-from-cds-to-mp3s-for-their-home-stereo/252175/23 "2004-06-27T06:17:15Z")

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[MythTV](http://www.mythtv.org/), baby. It’s all you ever dreamed. I’ve got all my 750+ CDs in it.

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