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Re: digital compression music test

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I recently bought (and returned) and Escient MX-111. The Escient is a music server with a 160 gigabyte hard drive and allows you to record cds to the hard drive at lossless compression (FLAC) and various MP3 at 320, 192, 160 or 128. First, I tried the lossless format - it sounded ok, but not great - a significant and audible decline in quality relative to a cheap Toshiba DVD player. Not surprisingly, the MP3 compression formats sounded progressively worse as the compression increased. This wasn't difficult to hear (on a Theta-Classe-Proac system at least). If only I could afford Kaleidescape...


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