Should I sell all my CDs?

[KiwiCoromandel]

I give up, and I give in. This format war sucks. MP3s are killing music. The quality is terrible. They sound awful, no matter what size the files are, and what you're playing them on. They. Just. Plain. Suck.

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[Redneck4sure]

Me thinkie he be full-o-shit.

You can't get killer sound out of a pair of earbuds but portablility of a nice surround sound system with 12" or bigger speakers is not possible either. A lot of the poor sounding mp3 rips are due to poor ripping, not the format itself. Yes, 128 is not very good but 320 sounds great. Most people can't hear the difference between 320 and lossless. Even if they can hear the difference, they will have to have good equipment to tell them apart.

I have downloaded some lossless rips that sound much worse than an mp3 I have of the same album. When you rip an album with all the settings on max speed and have the computer doing several other things at the same time, you frequently get shitty rips. Another problem is people set the gain sky high and that causes distortion and clipping.

I rip cds at a low speed read setting, max quality, and never multitask while ripping. I also prefer lossless but truthfully, I can't tell the difference between cd and 320cbr mp3 on the system I have in the war room (assuming it is a quality mp3 rip).

..but there is something to be said for vinyl.

besides the snap, crackle, pop....&.....skip......

Flac! gotta love it!