Upgrade to lossless.... upgrade your life

[Jop]

I have B&o and AMI (ipod), for a while i wasn't overwhelmed by the performance of the B&o sound system.
Turns out it was because of my lossy compressed music. Ive just been through an exercise of re ripping my music to Apple Lossless format and a higher quality 320kbs AAC lossy format.

320 is definatly better than the mp3 ???kbs i used before but the lossless really brings out what your B&o was designed to do.. i can at last hear the bass. mid and treble without any distortion

Where possible i implore you to ditch low quality mp3/wma/aac in favor for a lossless format (alac, is the ipod supported format) or at the very least use a high bitrate lossy format.

i expect that this will benefit the standard speaker system also.

of course you could continue to use original CD, but where is the fun in that??

[smellster]

That's good to "hear"! :o
I've got about forty of my favourite albums in lossless on my ipod. Roll on July!

[allanmmck]

I have just converted a CD to the lossless format you suggested - the only problem is that it now takes up about 6 times more space !

[Jop]

I have just converted a CD to the lossless format you suggested - the only problem is that it now takes up about 6 times more space ! Ah yes.... I did forget to mention that. But doesn't it sound better? I doubt you'll notice the difference through a set of headphones or a cheap dock, but defintley through a system of some sort.

The other thing to note is that you need re-encode the music from the original source (ie. the CD), doing it from an mp3 or a cd that was once an mp3 wont work as you cant ever get bak what's already been lost.