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Originally Posted by Andyyyy
Do any of you hear a difference between these formats?
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In a way it almost doesn't matter for me. Even if listening to a vinyl record was superior to a WAV CD, I wouldn't take the time to do it and deal with all the nuances. Now, some people have massive LP collections that may not be available on CD at all and so digitizing the music is the only way to make it portable.
I will echo Lotus experiment which I did independently before I knew his results. I agree that AAC is better than MP3. But even 320 AAC produced some distortion on one setup I have here. Only the actual CD played certain passages properly. So you have to be able to detect the loss of quality and have a system that can reproduce that loss before it matters. If you hit these two requirements, then you might be tempted to look for another route like FLAC, which unfortunately is far from ubiquitous.
FWIW, I have been pretty happy listening to AM on the 128K stream through my home stereo system.