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It's all about the bitrate

The higher the bitrate, WAV or MP3, the cleaner the sound.

Both formats are subject to compression, but MP3s tend to get MUCH more compressed than WAVs, resulting in nasty wow and flutter through anything but crappy headphones/speakers.

If you want near-CD quality, you'll have to make sure the bitrate is at least 192kb/sec. Audiophiles will probably recommend a higher rate, but I wouldn't go any lower than 192. WAVs usually offer full CD quality at 44.1kHz but are ungodly large in this digital age.

Hope that helped! :)

See? We newbies are still good fer sumpin'!
 
cm454 said:
What is the best file type to send on CD?
MP3?
Wav?
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Don't know anybody who sends CD's with MP3 files on them. Most PD's have consumer level CD players in their cars & offices and many don't read MP3 files as easily as wav if at all. As far as I can tell from the CD's we see, it's always wav.
 
SOME compression? Holy smoke, try 10 to 1.
A typical one minute audio .wav file is 10 megabytes. The same audio file as an .mp3 is 1 megabyte! You've lost 90% of the information!
 
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