For a portable mp3 is okay but in a HIFI application all lossy codecs are lacking. Ogg Vorbis (codec) while being lossy seems to me to produce near CD quality if you encode at 256kbps VBR or higher. BTW there is no way in the world any lossy codec can sound as good or better than the source CD....physics 101
If you are considering ripping your CD's and putting them on a PC hard drive for playback via your hifi you should consider a lossless codec like FLAC or APE. These will give CD quality playback and the stored file will be smaller than a WAV file but not as small as a lossy one i.e. mp3, wma or ogg.
sdz
If you are considering ripping your CD's and putting them on a PC hard drive for playback via your hifi you should consider a lossless codec like FLAC or APE. These will give CD quality playback and the stored file will be smaller than a WAV file but not as small as a lossy one i.e. mp3, wma or ogg.
sdz