iTunes quality?
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Topic: iTunes quality?
Posted By: marlinspike
Subject: iTunes quality?
Date Posted: October 05, 2005 at 10:30 PM
A few months ago I installed a Nakamichi CD-400 and some alpine s series speaker with 13 gauge IXOS wire in my car. It sounds really great but with one problem: when I crank it, with CD's I get hiss. I also get hiss with weak FM signals, but with good FM signals I get no hiss (also, FM is louder than CD's). I thought this was just the best my set up could do so I just drop the treble to get rid of the hiss, but then one day I put some nice headphones on my computer and realized it's not my sound system, it's the poor quality of the mp3's I'm burning. If I buy my songs from iTunes, then burn them, will the quality be better, or will it be the same bad quality of a typical 128kbps mp3? (I thought about maybe the headphones are bad, but no because they are recording studio quality, plus strong FM stations give 0 hiss so it must be the CD's and mp3 files themselves).
Thanks,
Richard
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Posted By: Stripes26051
Date Posted: October 14, 2005 at 9:18 PM
def could be try putting in an actual store bought cd and see if thats the case as far as itunes i have no idea
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Posted By: fast05
Date Posted: October 31, 2005 at 3:38 PM
I would also encode your mp3's at more than 128kbps. I would go atleast 192kbps. I normally encode mine at 256 VBR with a VBR bit rate fluxuates and give you the best of quality with a smaller file size. What are you encoding them with?
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