ChrisCoaster wrote:
Seriously!
Aside from 1/2hour episodes of "The Shadow" or "Great Gildersleeve"
radio shows, is the greatest thing to happen in the 1990s totally
passe?
My personal mp3 download minimum is 192kbps. For rips - 256 if it's
poppy stuff, 320 for jazz, classical, and stuff I just can't live
without. 
192 with joint stereo (ms) is where acceptable starts, and gets better if
you start out with a quality sample rate conversion to 32 kHz sample rate.
Makes life easier for the encoder and thus the treble less splatty.
However you WILL end up doing it all in full wordlength, so why bother with
wordlenght-reduction?
-ChrisCoaster
Kind regards
Peter Larsen