I did some experimentation with wav - mp3 - wav and found that there didn't seem to be any actual data loss until you got down to 96kbps. I thought that above this, the difference in output sound quality was to do with how much compression was used and was dealt with by some shmancy algorithm, but that the original data was still the same. Did I get this completely wrong? I encode most of my CD's at 128 and the same with any conversions I've done from tape. Should I be doing this at an initial higher rate which I can then archive to CD and then re-encode at a lower rate for my empeg?

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Steve - 18GB Mk II Sssmokey