Significantly. There are other people on the board who can do the math much better than I, but in practice I find a CD quality wav file about 10.5MB / minute and a good MP3 to be about 2MB / minute. These are just general estimates from my encoding. As was said in this thread, the highest MP3 is really about 320kbps or 2.4MB / minute.

Please correct the math as needed - these are only rough estimates and your milage may vary.

I don't want to break any NDAs, but can any of the 2.0 beta testers or empeg folks respond on how well the empeg performs with CD Quality WAV files. Do you notice any problems with caching? Are the drives spun up more? Any noticable operational / playback differences?

Personally, I would only use WAV files for something that absolutely could not pass through a compressor - test files, audio training, pink noise, calibration tracks, etc.

Paul G.
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