How fussy are you about audio?

Cafe Society
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I’ve recently set up a 5.1 DVD-Audio system and it sounds A-MAY-zing. The Beatles “LOVE” album is sooooo great…
But I got my iPod too and that’s fine for its purpose.

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I’m not fussy about audio at all. My computer has cheap speakers that suit me just fine. No car, broken iPod. Of course, I seldom listen to music, and my hearing isn’t that great to begin with.

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I don’t notice the difference between 192kb+ mp3 and CDs.

A side question. Has anyone listened to the Oasis - Definitely Maybe cd? Did you find that it was very filled with noise?

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Like some of the other posters here, my set-up is a mixture. I have a nice Yamaha reciever…I’m at the upper end of the low-end scale. After that it goes up to the $3k range…which is only mid-price for recievers. I don’t have any speakers in the house right now…I’m waiting to get B&W’s for the living room surround sytem…but I can’t justify the price right now. Probably in a couple of months. I do have a set of B&W’s for the upstairs porch, I just haven’t gotten around to installing them yet.

I’ve ripped all my CD’s to .mp3 at anywhere between 128kps and 192kps. I don’t go any higher than that, as I can’t tell the difference. I changed out the factory car stereo, but that is just because I wanted XM and an external connection for my mp3 player. Speakers are stock.

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I’m kind of an audio snob, but not an expensive one. I like to get the most bang for my buck and my wife HATES when I have to pause a movie to fiddle with the amp or whatever. I mostly listen to metal so the compression isn’t as noticable, but I do have a bunch of CDs I ripped way back in the day at 128kbs and I find them to be almost unlistenable to the point that I may go back and re rip them at 192. Anything over 192 though, I can tell a slight difference, isn’t worth it to me due to the increase in file size. I absolutely LOVE having 300+ full CDs on my Ipod/Zune and haven’t put a CD in my truck for at least 3-4 years now. It’s so convienient I could never go back to a book of CDs.

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Put it this way: The fact that my car stereo is Bose elicited a very “excited” “Huh.” from me.