What I'll do (when I get time) is to encode the same track at different rates and make them available from my FTP site - perhaps you guys could then do me the favour of testing them 'in the field' as it were?

Um, don't do that, please. We just got done talking about the RIAA in another thread.

Besides, it's totally up to you as to whether the stuff sounds good or not. Just encode them so that they sound OK to you. If you ever reach a point where you're listening to the Empeg, and you dislike the compression on one particular song, it's not so tough to re-rip that song from your original CD (now that you've seen how easy it is with the proper software).

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144