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Compressed mp3's - what to do with them?

Say you converted your music at 192kps or somewhere north of 100. Recapturing in lossless isn't going to happen in the near future (two kids, small business owner, etc).

I've got them on an external drive attached to my iMac G4 and an iTV at my stereo/TV locale. I can wirelessly grab those tunes from my iTunes, and put them directly into my integrated amp (Blue Circle CS), or would be open to a lower priced DAC like the USB thingee from BC also.

I know that putting makeup on a pig... but will the sound IMPROVEMENT be worth it from changing the iTV analog out to an iTV digital out to an inexpensive DAC?

Or do I need to find a college student who needs some money to recapture my 1000 CD collection?
thanks
peter
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solman989
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Every time I've made an improvement or upgrade in my system, the sound improved across the board - including mp3 files each time. The mp3s still sounded like mp3s relative to FLAC, but they sounded better than they did before just as FLAC sounded better than they did before.

If you are only willing to do one or the other, I'm guessing that the improvement gained from using a decent DAC will be greater than the improvement gained from switching to FLAC. Whether or not the improvement is worth it will depend on the DAC and your ears.
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