iPod bitrate for importing and burning

[donBrian]

I am looking for the best bitrate for importing in iTunes. At the moment I use the standard setting (128kbps) and the sound is good. Recently I was advised to use much higher bitrates and I would like to know the sense of this.
Space is not an important factor but sound quality is. As mentioned 128kbps sounds alright and choosing a higher bitrate so it sounds better than I can actually hear is nonsense. A higher bitrate in order to be able to burn proper audio CD's does make sense. Furthermore iTunes offers Variable Bitrate Encoding (VBR).
Therefor three questions:
- which bitrate offers good sound quality?
- which bitrate is neccesary in order to burn audio CD's of standard quality?
- what effects has VBR on the questions above?

 

[Blue Velvet]

Welcome to MR.

There are plenty of existing threads on this subject already. A simple search taking all of 10 seconds reveals:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/58527/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/84442/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/26388/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/70116/

 

[WinterMute]

Thanks for the info Blue.

Please take time to search before posting, most questions have been discussed at one point or other.

If not, then post away.