Anyone Can Tell Me The Best Sound Audio Format & The Clearest Sound Format?

Audio Quality


320





Sample Rate


48000hz





does not satisfied me





please tell meAnyone Can Tell Me The Best Sound Audio Format %26amp; The Clearest Sound Format?
If 320/48khz doesn't satisfy you, then you're doing something wrong.





Use a better ripper in the future - CDex is a great program that uses the Lame mp3 codec, it is the best quality codec out there. So many people rip with Windows Media Player or some crappy pos program like that, and that is one reason why even files that should sound good don't. You've got to use a decent quality program for it to sound good.





What are you listening on? Because if its earbuds, then you're deluding yourself - nothing will sound that good over earbuds, even CD quality. If you're listening on a nice high-end sound system, well duh, a good system reveals the flaws in a poorly encoded/ripped song... and the limitations of a compressed file will stick out. If that's the case, then get a tube preamp, it will help greatly.... but even then, with a system like that even CD quality won't probably sound good enough for you.... you may just have to find SACD albums....





WAV files have the highest quality, because they aren't compressed. FLAC and OGG are next in line. 320 kbps mp3 is the highest quality of mp3 you can get. I wouldn't use WMA or AAC at all, personally.





It all comes down to how well its ripped, though. If the CD player or CD is glitchy, if the computer isn't optimized for ripping, if the computer is being used for other stuff while ripping/encoding, etc it's going to lower the quality.








SaulAnyone Can Tell Me The Best Sound Audio Format %26amp; The Clearest Sound Format?
Thanks mann

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I'm not crazy with the audio quality of lossy files, either. You can always just rip WAV files, which are CD quality, but the downside is that the files are huge, and you can't tag them in most media players (in other words, you can't add cover art or alter artist/title info).





To try to save space, you can try a lossless format, like FLAC or WMA Lossless. None of the information gets thrown out, but the files are roughly 60% the size of a WAV (in my experience, anyway).





Another option is to try a variable bitrate. Then you can still use a lossy format and save some disk space, but the bitrate adjusts as needed throughout the song, in order to preserve as much of the sound quality as possible.