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Originally Posted by 31D1
 6000 is a lot. Well, you know what the thing is though, if you are specializing in older material, there's really no real reason to be in any range higher than 4000 kbps (maybe 3500). Going that high does you no good because the actual DVD you're ripping (if it's say from 1997 or 2000) didn't have that high of a production anyway. |
You're right - it is overkill. My view is that since compression can never add, only take away, from something which is already compressed, then I want as much of it as I can get.
I rip MP3s at 320 ("preset insane") for the same reason. If I need to "re-inflate" them (convert them back to WAV files) for editing, then I have lost very little of the original.
I remember ripping
Viva Las Vegas at 2000, and then again at 3000, and the difference was striking. So I went to 4000! It is Ann-Margret, after all!
On the theory that too much is never enough, I rarely go below 5000 now, unless the only device I will play it on is my phone.