If you want to buy it just for your own listening pleasure, I would think the Audiophile is overkill. I bought it first time for 2013 now. I am busy producing an album and will use mainly the accoustic guitar from realband for this.

Maybe it is just my imagination, but I think it makes a huge difference. When audio is compressed, the high end is usually lost, or at least impacted more severely than the mids.

Accoustic guitars are usually mixed in a busy rock mix by taking the bottom out, and even the mids, to make place for the vocals. What you are left with is the highs. So, all you end up with in a rock mix is the highs - exactly those areas that has been lost when the waves are compressed as wmv.

When I got my audiphile disc, I dropped the new files into my songs, and had to re-adjust all my mixes again.

So, yes, in my opinion, it does make a difference.

Last edited by Sepheritoh; 12/19/12 08:15 AM.