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Author Topic: playback kbps - what should be expected for best quality sound?  (Read 948 times)

Boulder Bob

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playback kbps - what should be expected for best quality sound?
« on: December 05, 2012, 03:40:50 pm »
I am attempting to rip CDs in FLAC with no compression. I want the best possible sound and don't care about file size - when I play them back they are playing in the 600 to 800 kbps range.  shouldn't they be playing at 1400 kbps?  should I be doing something differently?
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Matt

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Re: playback kbps - what should be expected for best quality sound?
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2012, 04:02:26 pm »
That's normal.

Lossless compression stores the same bits more efficiently.  It's like how a ZIP file is smaller than the original, but still the same as the original.

More here:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Lossless_Compression
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