Music File Formats from iTunes Store

Can you help me - I want to start building my collection of AIFF files as I'm about to get a Wadia 170i transport!
Can I only down load music from iTunes in ACC format? IF yes then can they then be converted to AIFF post downloading?
Cheers Nige

An audio component of that quality obviously needs good audio formats :
In terms of buying music, you would be advised to go for iTunes Plus, which gives you the music in AAC 256kbps (near CD quality, I cannot hear the difference).
Having got that, as long as the Wadia plays them - and it looks from the website as though it does - there is absolutely no point in converting to AIFF, which as Meg says will give you NO improvement in quality, only larger files. And if you ever did contemplate converting (pointlessly) to a higher format, then Apple Lossless is the same quality as AIFF but the file sizes are only half.

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