Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus

Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus
Any audible difference between the two? I only buy/import from CD's in Apple Lossless but I would like to stop buying CD's.
Sakahara

Sakahara, It is very easy to use your CDs to test the iTunes Plus 256 kbps AAC encoding. Just change the Import Setting preference when ripping your CD and when importing choose "Don't Replace"

Whether there is an audible difference will depend on *your* music playback system, and *your* hearing ability. Do try a test with a few different songs. I found with certain songs it is very difficult to tell. Some listeners systems have such high fidelity and acute hearing that they are able to tell the difference like it was comparing wine to water.

cheers, ed

sakahara, a great number of users have music stored on external drives. some have over 2000 CDs in ALC or WAV no way to fit that on a system drive in a notebook (yet). Transfer speed of USB 2 is adequate for music files. I use a FW 400 750MB drive with 600+ CDs and have another duplicate drive with backups. BTW my files are AIFF/WAV (no compression) No problem here. My system is linked below.

On the sound difference - since you are looking for opinions. Yes I can hear the difference in different formats. No I cannot hear the difference in formats. It is song dependent for me. Simpler music it is more apparent. complicated electronic music it is less apparent.

cheers, ed