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RE: Who plays CDs nowadays?

Totally agree, I don't do flac or any lossless formats as now a days you can purchase a 2TB drive for $70 on sale, $80, full retail (that is for the mechanical HDD), $100-$150 for the SSD versions of the same capacity drives.

Even with MP3 Vs WAV files at 16/44.1, the difference is subtle at best when you use 320 kbps rips and that is the slight dynamic range compression with the file, but otherwise, they both sound close sonically speaking, even in the car, I can if I listen intently enough, can tell when I'm listening to one or the other, and once I knew what to listen for, I can still tell while driving sometimes.

Again, it's subtle but there once you are cognizant of it. I began doing MP3 but in a folder where I just dumped without rhyme or reason some music files, I didn't even bother with converting to MP3, just 16/44.1 WAV and from that point on, pretty much stopped using MP3's. My head unit is only good for WAV 16/44 and MP3 formats as it's an older unit but can do BT and USB drives.



Edits: 09/15/20

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