AAC 128kbps will sound better.
The bigger part of the Pandora SQ equation is the audio codec and decoder. I believe Pandora uses AAC+ (lossy, low-birate, fit for mass distro) and in most cases Adobe Flash as the decoder.
Your DAC matters but I think there's more SQ lost at the lossy encoding side.
The bigger part of the Pandora SQ equation is the audio codec and decoder. I believe Pandora uses AAC+ (lossy, low-birate, fit for mass distro) and in most cases Adobe Flash as the decoder.
Your DAC matters but I think there's more SQ lost at the lossy encoding side.