Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat

The 320 is a good bit rate but you are going to still notice some loss of quality. At that point it starts depending on the quality of your system. A set of focal speakers you will hear what is missing as apposed to a set of pioneers which you will never notice. The closest someone can get to original without being lossless would be 512. That is a spot were things start lossinging up and it is half compressed from the standard rate of a song.