Music quality in iPhone

Guys, I use my minidisc and iPhone intermittently to listen to music. I must say the sound quality in minidisc is better. Iphone cannot handle high bass.
Does anyone agrees?

god i remember using a minidisk player. that was the coolest player i had before i started going with mp3 players. but i digress.
music quality depends completely on the bitrate used to store it, plus the quality of the medium used to get the music from. if the CD used to get the music is scratched or otherwise damaged, the music won't play well.
the highest bitrate i have seen for mp3's is around 320 kilobits per second. (320 * 60 / 8 = 2.4MB/s) the problem is that this equals about 2.4 megabytes per minute of music, assuming i did the math right. if you have 2000 songs with an average length of 4 minutes, that's 19.2 GIGABYTES of data.
a good bitrate i use for music storage is 192kb/s. it gives you good quality without using a ton of space. i also use a variable bitrate setting if it's available. variable bitrate is awesome because if the song has a lot of stuff going on, it will automatically increase the bitrate used to keep the quality high, while if little or nothing is going on, it will decrease the bitrate to nothing to save space.
in order to save space on my iPhone for the amount of music and video i like to have available, i have decreased the bitrate on my music to 128kb/s, which is the minimum i would ever use. all of my music that used to take about 10 gigabytes of space now only takes about 6.5, so you can easily see the space savings.

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