Top 1000 Albums FLAC?

[Alco23]

A BOSE system is not something you want to boast about .

Generally speaking, MP3 is not even the best lossy format. It's been supersede by other formats but everyone uses it because it's the most popular and most common.

In terms of the FLAC versus MP3@320kbps argument, there's a lot of variables including the type of music you are listening to. Or in some cases, the way the original music was mastered (example see recent release from Metallica, the original CD was so horrible it didn't matter). For me I would normally used AAC for portable music and FLAC for achiving.

[Beck38]

Actually, I've had a couple of small Bose 'Room Mate' portable systems that have traveled with me around the Earth a couple of times for 20+ years (still working). And WAY back when I had a top line Bose 901 speaker system that blew anything else away in it's price range 30+ years ago.

But, again, as I jiggled the numbers here, the idea that 1000 FLAC albums would be 'insanely large' as some have intimated, is a bit of a stretch. Even at 700MB per (as pure wave files, 700MB being the max storage of a single CD, maybe 30% less as FLAC), that figures to 700MBx1000, or 700GB. That's 'worst case', most albums are less than 500MB per, and the 'average' is probably around <400MB.

Well below a 1 terabyte drive. <$100 at today's prices. Sound's good () to me!

I continue 'testing' AAC vr. MP3, and it's really 'no contest'. Now, maybe I have 'golden ears', but my auto system Isn't one of the 'deaf jam' things you see at the car stereo places, It's a (speaker or power amp wise) pretty ordinary. Stock JBL factory installed system, originally, nice but not out of the ordinary (except for the new head unit I just had put in).

I'm almost about to drop the hammer on the 'final' decision to ramp up processing my CD collection to 320Kb/AAC, one of the last things on my list is to d/l a FLAC album, process, and take a listen. Then, after my CC cools down from the new head unit, drop the hammer on the ipod ('sweet spot' price wise seems to be the 120GB 'Classic' version).

I think the OP had a good ideA with the computer stored audio system, based on FLAC, though. That kinda revived an idea bouncing around in my mind for the last few years. The things that become not only doable but mandatory with stunningly cheap mass storage....