ive just imported The Who ultimate collection onto my 80gb ipod video and i honestly cant tell that much of a difference between importing at 256kbps or apple lossless! ive been comparing for the last 30 mins. any feed back would be great. cheers.
256 with what encoder? AAC or MP3?
And depends on the quality of original recording and the music. Rock is recorded 'hot' with analogue overload (OK) and digital clipping (v.bad) on 99% of current masters.
Solo piano will trip up lossy encoders.
We have to remember all this talk is about a portable travelling environment. Whether you'd notice the difference with a bus zooming past you is highly debatable even if you have IEMs on youi'm not an expert like you guy's but what difference would it make if i imported with mp3 instead of aac? would there be any difference in sound quality?