Ok, since I was mentioned earlier in the thread, I wanted to provide a little data.
I don't have the original cd's but I can provide the stats on a few of the cd's Robin brought over.
Each cd was ripped to my HD in FLAC using EAC and all of my normal settings. When I look at the birate for these cd's, it is pretty much the same as what I see for cd's I have directly ripped to FLAC from the original media.
For example, the first two entries below were from Robin cd's, the next two are ones I directly ripped:
Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
742-997kbps VBR
44.1 kHz
Susheela Raman - Love Trap
600-860kbps VBR
44.1 kHz
Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside
900-1080kbps VBR
44.1 kHz
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
708-1015kbps VBR
44.1 kHz
If Robin was creating those cd's at a really reduced bitrate of say 300kbps, how can I get the bitrates listed above?
Am I missing something here?
George