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Take your favorite song ripped at 128 and then re rip that same cdg at 192 or whatever.

LISTEN TO THEM BOTH

Have someone else listen to them !!!

Then DECIDE if it is worth the trouble !!!

Is there a difference OF COURSE but will it be noticeable in a bar enviroment ????
YOU DECIDE !!!!

Remember everyone's ears get a lot worse with age, especially at higher frequencies that are most impacted by lower sampeling rates.

A difference that few people in their 40s would notice may be noticable by nearly all teenagers or 20 year olds.

There are exceptions but just because you may not be able to tell the difference others might.

Some people that come to Karaoke are music obsessed and those little differences are important.

The difference between a 128 and 256 bitrate may be more than the difference between a $1000 and $5000 sound system. But depending on the song, person, setting and volume both may sound the nearly same or noticablly different.

To get highest quality sound you have to go highest quality start to finish, cut corners anywhere and you might as well cut corners at multiple points as the sound will only be as good as the worst step in the chain. If you have a very expensive and good setup otherwise the bitrate is may be the what is holding back the sound quality, but if a lot of other things in the sound system are making the sound lower quality then it is probably not worth the effort.

I'm just curious How many made their analysis at a normal listening level with no crowd noise? How many tune their system in the same environment before the bar gets noisy? In these conditions even with my hearing I can tell a difference with procs bypassed and EFX off. During one of my live shows nobody can tell the difference.

The only thing it costs is TIME ..so if you have the time and feel like it rip all your cdgs again ....will it be worth it ? Who nows

I'm pretty sure there isn't a Karaoke singer alive who walked into a bar (NOT A STUDIO) to sing a song and said .. "This sounds like 128 bitrate recorded tracks"
And most of your KJ's here wouldn't be able to tell the difference either unless you compared side by side in a studio type enviroment.

The difference would be easily noticable if compared side by side on an ordinary home hifi or even an ipod. Its still nothing to get too nitpicky about if you & your singers are happy with the way it is, but if you listen to a 128kbs and a 320kbs file side by side, I promise you, you will notice a significant difference. Certainly though, the better the system, the more noticable the difference will be.

I agree in a side by side comparison......