MP3 - CD Mystery??

[admin_exported]

Hi,

When I usually buy a CD I give it a few listens through the drive in the PC. Then after a week or so I RIP it using windows media player @320kpbs.

Today I ripped a CD I purchased recently and gave the new MP3's a listen as usual. I found that towards the end of one of the songs some bass notes were making the small tweeters crackle/fizzle on my right speaker and also slightly on the left.

My first thought was that the speakers have blown. I started checking for dust and cable interference and still it didnt go away. I covered the small tweeter with my palm during the bass notes and it stopped the fizzle so I was sure it was the tiny tweeters that the noise was eminating from....then I decided to put the CD back in and listen to that again as I was never experiencing this before.

Low and behold there was no crackle...

Why and how is this happening and can I do anything about it? Anybody had the same experience?

Thanks

 

[chebby]

Dunno. In my experience all of my 256kbps VBR and 320kbps CD rips (to iTunes) have been excellent.

Try that particular CD with iTunes (it is free to download) and see if the fault is replicated.

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah may have to try another RIP software...

Whats odd is the same fuzz happens when I listen to audio through youtube....which never bothered me because I know the quality on youtube is so bad so I thought it was to do with that. Odd thats its now happening on this 320 Ripped song though.

Cheers