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The question and some of these answers made my head hurt.
The basic rule if you're ripping your CDs into digital format, specifially MP3, is that 128kbps is considered 'typical', and to many people is the rough equivalent of CD quality.
You say that you don't buy that, so my suggestion would be to bump it up to either 192 or 256 kbps. If you're a true audio fanatic, go to 320 kbps instead.
You will lose information with any of these settings, but the theory is that you'll lose information that your brain won't notice. It's a matter of endless debate, but really, just rip the same track several times in different quality settings, and see what your threshold is. Then go with the lowest kbps setting you can still tolerate.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link