I have run into a problem when trying to gather up classic tracks. Old tracks from 1998 from artists like quicksilver are hard to find...but i can find them digitally but only at 192kb.

How bad is 192 played in the club? If you had no choice...would you play the track or just find a different track in better quality?

You have no choice
play it

if you ar ento so sure about it, play another track in 192 kbps and 320 kbps
and you will hardly notice the difference.

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192 works, but it's for sure not preferred... but, when I need to, yes, I will play 192kbps tracks out in a club.

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Is there really that much of a noticable difference between 192 and 320? All my tracks are encoded to 192kbps, and I've never had any problems playing them loud.

Yeah, why not? Chances are the club you will be playing at has a crap system anyways (As the majority of clubs do) and it won't matter at all.

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Originally posted by xstalkrx I have run into a problem when trying to gather up classic tracks. Old tracks from 1998 from artists like quicksilver are hard to find...but i can find them digitally but only at 192kb. How bad is 192 played in the club? If you had no choice...would you play the track or just find a different track in better quality?

+1
the same!!!

I would argue I could tell the difference between 192 and 320, but I'd also agree that most others couldn't... For whatever it's worth...

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you can tell a difference imo, it just sounds nicer... crisper.. the highs more defined. but i say, play it out ******

To me what suffers the most between 192 and 320, is the low end...you lose soo much bass frequencies on a 192 compared to a 320. 320 makes that sub come out nicely...

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

id play it if i knew the track would go off i nthe club and i didnt have anything better.

but that being said i wouldnt wanna bring anything that was less then 320, 192 just isnt the same

I can tell the difference between 192k and 320k but, like most other people who can, I can only tell the difference when I hear the same track at 192k and 320k consecutively.

In a club, mixing from a quite probably badly mastered track in 320k into a different track in 192k and you're not going to get people saying "ooh the sound quality's just dropped", even the proper audiophiles. The odd person may notice a very slight loss of bottom end frequencies, but that could just as easily be due to mastering - there isn't even a standard volume of bass frequencies or anything, so has the track with more bass got too much or as the track with less bass got too little?

Fucking play it. I'd play a 128k if it was a tune I really wanted to play and only had in 128k for whatever reason (although I don't think that has happened yet).

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i'd beef the 192 up in your application of choice (audacity,soundforge,audition, etc.), surely you can't magicly make the lost frequency appear again but you can by equalizing, compressing and other stuff make it almost good.

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