Hey guys, looking for some opinions on lossless audio, FLAC, AAC, APE, ect..

who uses any of the forms of compression, and what's your take on it.

Mark

 

aac is the most supported
and lame is considered to be the best encoder

 

FLAC has HU support, as well as native Ipod decoding...

Car stereo:

• Kenwood Music Keg
• PhatBox
• URAL ConceRt CDD
• Volvo's Digital Jukebox

Portable/Handheld:

• Bluedot's BMP-1430
• COWON's iAUDIO A2, iAUDIO F2, iAUDIO U3, iAUDIO M3, iAUDIO M5, iAUDIO T2, and iAUDIO X5
• Green Apple's portable media player: AP3000
• iPod via the Rockbox firmware replacement
• iRiver iHP-120/iHP-140/H320/H340 via the Rockbox firmware replacement
• Iwod G10
• Onda VX737
• Rio Karma
• TrekStor's Vibez

EDIT: Aside from the ipod, what hardware supports AAC? I'm not talking about Pc/MAc, strickly for the car...??
Mark

 

anybody?

Mark

 

kenwood as well as pioneer do in select units
your example like the phat noise pieces are rarely sold
kenwood no longer sells the keg

 

I use aac, wav, apple lossless,...and quite honestly I can't hear a difference in even compressed tracks in a very quiet garage in the middle of the night switching from track to track (wav to aac 128 kbs). As far as I'm concerned they're all more than good enough for me. If you can tell them apart, then by all means you should find the one that sounds best to you.

 

I'm a huge fan of FLAC myself.