Question for true audiophiles....

Apple Lossless takes up a heck of a lot more space than iTunes plus. I'm referring to importing from CD's. Can you guys really tell a difference in sound quality between the two? I use P5 headphones and sounsticks on my Mac. I also play all my stuff in my cars from the iPods. Is it worth all the extra space and go with Lossless?

jbshanks wrote:
Apple Lossless takes up a heck of a lot more space than iTunes plus. I'm referring to importing from CD's. Can you guys really tell a difference in sound quality between the two? I use P5 headphones and sounsticks on my Mac. I also play all my stuff in my cars from the iPods. Is it worth all the extra space and go with Lossless?
Personally no, I can't, but I'm not listening on high end audio equipment. You yourself must be the judge. Just remember, you have other alternatives. There are compression ratios in between, for example you could import between 320 kbps and 512 kbps which would be better quality/larger files than iTunes Plus but less quality/smaller files than Apple Lossless.

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Although, doing this I'm a bit confused over the following line of code;
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Hi, I asked a questiona while back, and got a reply
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Although, doing this I'm a bit confused over the
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else {
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