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bgarrett said:
Who cares. Sonically, MP3 is a highly compromised format.



That depends on the encoding bit-rate (therefore size) of the file.

At 192 kbps, only "Golden Ears" can hear a difference from the original recording (CD?).

At 256 kbps, almost nobody can hear a difference.

96 kbps, at which a lot of Napster tunes were ripped, is where I can easily detect the difference, but it barely sounds distorted.

Not all MP3s are created equally.