Was curious if anyone knows the bit rate the hd rips CDs and what format is it ripping them too.??

thanks

Mark

 

i believe the bitrate is 128kbps

 

Wow.. that low.. I wish there was a way to change it.

 

Manual says it's 128 kps and I assume it's MP3 format. Useless if you like good sound.

 

Can you say very useless.. I can believe that dont let you change the rate.. oh well..

 

for most people the 128 bitrate is good enough. But the few of us who are audiophiles and prefer better bitrates would use an ipod or flash drive.

 

Wow, I didn't know it used that low of a bitrate to rip the CDs.
When I was test driving the TL, I put in a Focal Demo CD to listen to the ELS and after I got back to the dealer, I had time to play around with the audio system.
There were 2 recorded tracks in the HDD, and I thought it sounded identical to the original CD.
I must have been paying not enough attention.

Dan

 

Does anyone know if the the 2011s allow you to change the bit rate from 128 kbs to something higher when copying to the HDD?

What is the point of such a great audio system, when it can only play highly compressed audio files from the HDD?

This is a triumph of marketing over engineering, so the marketing collateral can claim a 3,600 song capacity, even though those songs are at bit rate unworthy of such a system.

 

I did not take the time to look in the manual for the actual bitrate, but I am not surprised it is 128: I noticed that some of my CDs sound way better when played through an iPod (I rip the files using lame --preset standard, which is pretty good but not crazy high bitrates) v. the files ripped to the HDD.

Marc

 

this is the reason why i do not use this feature at all

 

This is reason enough not to rip to the HDD, but I actually gave up when I did the math and realized I'd be stuck ripping discs for days and days and since a lot of my discs are obscure and can't be found in the CDDB, it would be way too time consuming to manually set all the meta data for each track on all those albums (it takes about 40 minutes to do one album). So that is all completely unacceptable. Ideally I'd just be able to upload from USB to the HDD and not being able to really bugs me. So now it's either USB or more likely just off my phone (Pandora or through the media player). If you are at least using Bluetooth you can still advance tracks with the steering wheel controls.