192 vs 320

[sebastiannz]

i've got a few tunes by the revenge in 192 and they sound pretty bloody amazing - a lot better than some of my 320 or vinyls. but that guy is a mad producer

[Jester]

I've run a whole bunch of old tracks around 192-220 kbps through platinum notes and they come out pretty good. Don't use PN any more as it doesn't work in win 7 anyway .Our first show i used a mix of 320's and lower quality stuff and didn't notice any real difference through a 10k system (shit speakers levels everything out) for jams i don't worry so much about qualities but for recordings its 320's all the way

[GrimFandango]

i've got a few tunes by the revenge in 192 and they sound pretty bloody amazing - a lot better than some of my 320 or vinyls. but that guy is a mad producer

its vinyl dammit not vinylS!

[J.R.]

the next question is.... is 320 mp3 ok to play over a good pa? I only buy wav since sometime, but I have a lot of "old" 320 mp3 and I'm ask myself everytime I play them I I should buy them again as wav. I only have access to good studio monitors and headphones so I can't to real a/b tests over a good and loud PA. I'm curious what you think.

[JesC]

yes 320 mp3 are fine to play on pa systems. Word from the wise....

"ROCK WHAT YOU GOT"

[photojojo]

If I had to guess I would say less than 10% of the DJ community use wav's when playing out.

[maxonemillionone]

Definitely. And if you saw the pictures 320's are 99% perfect copies. I'm not too worried about not picking up that guitarist fart in the background.

[SirReal]

Definitely. And if you saw the pictures 320's are 99% perfect copies. I'm not too worried about not picking up that guitarist fart in the background.

Unfortunately, there's a pretty big aural difference when comparing 320 to wav using the same track. Don't get me wrong, most of my digital collection is 320 but if space & personal time were unlimited I'd definitely redigitize my collection in wav format. I will buy .wav's when I really like the track and think it's sonically deserving. If you do an entire set with 320 MP3's no one could tell. Even if you throw in a few .wavs I bet no one could tell which was which but if you play the same track in both formats one can definitely tell the difference. So take it all with a grain of salt but if I had my druthers I'd play only wav's.

[schaap]

You definitely hear a difference, but when uploading to websites like Mixcloud I mostly downgrade the mixes tot 192 kbps to save some mb's. so for posting on Facebook etc it doesnt mather that much. But in club environments i would never use <320 kbps..