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you can use the box at home

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Can, but in all honesty, probably won't. I have a top of the line a/v setup (52" projection TV, DVD, LD, CD, AC3, external DA converter, etc) and the 40 CDs are in a rack right next to it. I might use it at the office, though, but that'll be through small ear-plug headphones, which combined with office noise, and given I can't have it so loud that I can't hear the phone ring, it'll probably do.

I started ripping at fixed 128, then went to VBR 75% and am now down to VBR 50% and still can't tell the difference. The file sizes are good, and looking at the actual rates on VBR, I see everything from 192 (electronic trance with lots of precise high frequencies - little harmonics) down to 96 (acoustic guitar with background vocals).

And off-topic; the Mustang Cobra is now officially ordered. Roll on summertime and crusing to the beach

J.