Consumer Reports reveal your phone can rival the sound quality of a cd

[Farrell Jackson]

Here's an interesting article from Consumer Reports comparing music on phones to cds in a car stereo system. here's the link: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/07/how-do-cds-mp3s-and-streaming-music-compare-for-in-car-audio-quality/index.htm

I always thought 320 kbps was very close to a cd or wav. file sound quality.....at least that's what my 63 year old ears tell me. Unless I'm listening on a very high quality system, where the cd or wav. wins hands down.

Any thoughts?

Farrell

[peterp]

The digital files mp3/aac/flac's people use are usually rips from cd's and I have never found the audio quality of cd's to be very good in the first place.
Or they are downloads from services that compress them to speed up transfers, that also squeezes out the quality in the process.

Nothing beats live bands in your car, or a nice vinyl disk playing in the back seat!