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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Most noticeable artifacts of mp3 that you can still hear in 320 a bit: Strings plain suck at low bitrate, so do pads or similar. Pitch wobble/growler bass sucks, for a similar reason to strings or pads (Dnb, Trance, Liquid, many more) Reverb sucks (trance) Older style mastered stuff sucks, and even then you still get extra (anything but house really) clarity with higher bitrate (anything old, goa trance in particular) Anything where base is somewhat important. That rules out anything with either synthed (with deep bass) or real kicks as well as anything with important baselines (Dnb, Breaks, trance, techno, big beat, uk garage, dubstep, goa... and some psy etc) That pretty much just leaves house(even then your still going to get some extra benefit from higher bitrate). 320 is not good enough. When I've just listened to an album on cd and I hear it in 320 then I can immedietly see a part of the overall feel is gone and when I got an album which I'd previously only heard in 128kbps it was bliss.

ofcourse 128 is crap, i never said anything else. and yes u can hear the difference pretty clearly between 320 and wav when listening peacefully in your home, well knows environment. and yes base and dynamics kinda sounds weaker but in most edm this is compressed to hell anyway so its not realy a loss. todays edm in general sounds crap whether its wav or mp3 so to waste space on your HD/iPod whatever on higher than 320 is complete superstition. as for older production, 90s edm ur completely right, it sounds much better on wav.