For years I've had all my CD ripped in iTunes at the default bitrate settings. So a mixture of 128 Kbps and 256 kbps (VBR) files.
About 2 years ago I embarked on re-ripping every CD (about 400) we had in lossless via Exact Audio Copy (PC). I played around with settings and could definitely pick up on the varying sound differences between 128,192,256,320, Lossless and the original CD. However the difference between 256 kbps (VBR) AAC / 320 kbps MP3 and the CD are so very very minor it's not worth the space on portable devices imo.
Therefore I have the FLAC Lossless files on the NAS and then change the FLAC to Apple Lossless (bought DB PowerAmp for this) before converting to 256 kbps (VBR) AAC files for iTunes. This last step is still an ongoing process and will take me a bit of time to finish.
Just useful to have the lossless files where space is plentiful and then day-to-day files in much smaller file size.
About 2 years ago I embarked on re-ripping every CD (about 400) we had in lossless via Exact Audio Copy (PC). I played around with settings and could definitely pick up on the varying sound differences between 128,192,256,320, Lossless and the original CD. However the difference between 256 kbps (VBR) AAC / 320 kbps MP3 and the CD are so very very minor it's not worth the space on portable devices imo.
Therefore I have the FLAC Lossless files on the NAS and then change the FLAC to Apple Lossless (bought DB PowerAmp for this) before converting to 256 kbps (VBR) AAC files for iTunes. This last step is still an ongoing process and will take me a bit of time to finish.
Just useful to have the lossless files where space is plentiful and then day-to-day files in much smaller file size.