Taking music CDs and making MP3s

[stray]

I bought an obscure version of "Summertime" and a Bob Seger song once. 99.9% of my library on the iPod is not from the store.

[Big Gulp]

CDs are also a mite higher quality than mp3, eh?

Honestly I can't hear the difference.  My MP3's are ripped at 192Kbps, and if you played a CD side by side with it I doubt if I could tell one from the other.

Chalk it up to a combination of hearing loss and general tone deafness, but it just doesn't matter to me.

[Selby]

Honestly I can't hear the difference.  My MP3's are ripped at 192Kbps, and if you played a CD side by side with it I doubt if I could tell one from the other.

I used to never have a problem with any kind of differences, but just the other day I was driving the other half's new car with a high end stereo in it and I could have sworn I heard some cut-offs in the very high tones of the songs that started to irk the hell out of me once I heard them.  I rip all of my music to 128Kbps (legacy thing from 1997) but I also have complete junk for "quality" sound systems - all of my computer speakers are over 10 years old and the sound cards aren't much better and my cars are all 30 years old and don't have high quality aftermarket speakers or decks in them anyway.  So I wonder if my inability to hear differences is because of the quality of the projection equipment or if it was just a bad CD rip that I never noticed in the 4 years since I did it.

But in any event, I haven't heard any differences since on my usual equipment, so I'm not inclined to find out anything further.

[Calantus]

So I wonder if my inability to hear differences is because of the quality of the projection equipment or if it was just a bad CD rip that I never noticed in the 4 years since I did it.

It's likely to be your equipment. On my gaming headset and my mp3 player's earplugs it doesn't make any difference at all, but the difference is very noticeable on my new headphones I only use for music.