back where we started (128k, what a mistake!!!)
I'm in my recliner listening to Egberto Gismont's Danso dos Escravos. The track is off of a CD of the same name that I ripped into a 320k MP3 some time ago and sounds pretty darn good through my new Vandersteens.
However, prior to this track I listened to some tracks off of Imperial Bedroom which sounds great on CD but like ass at 128k MP3. Unfortunately, I have so many albums encoded as 128k MP3 that it makes me sick. I realize that I'm going to have to go back and re-rip literally hundreds of CDs.
I was a short-sited fool!
Years ago when I was working in front of my computer out of my attic apartment in Cincinnati I was simultaneously ripping dozens of CDs a day. Never when I ripped those CDs did I image I'd be sitting in an easy chair listening to those files through a very nice amp, and outboard DAC and a pair of Vandersteens that allow you to hear every bit of sonic accuracy that you gave up when you choose disk space over sound quality.
