blah blah blah (hearing damage) blah blah blah WHAT?!?! WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?! I saw Megadeth once. It was the highest sound level ever measured at the theater. 140db+ inside of the ceiling. The show went like this: "This is a song of the new album..." GZZZZZ!!!GZZZZZZ!!!GZZZZZZ!!!GZZZZZZ!!! I think playback has been mentioned as critical in this sound quality argument. I'm talking about listening in my goddamned car! I'm NOT listening to a MacIntosh pre-amp driving a pair of esoteric tube amps powering Genelec monitors through Krell wire playing a tube 24bit D/A converter based magnetically suspended cd driver v. a $10G turntable with a $5G pre-amp and a $20G cartridge in a perfectly tuned listening room sitting in the sweet spot. I can't even afford a foot of fucking Krell wire. And if you're listening to your music from almost any computer the path that sound is taking before it gets to your ears passes through some total SHIT. Most people's cd or DVD players are SHIT that was made in fucking CHINA by someone that HATES you. The cables that go to their crap speakers are SHIT. The cables between all the components came from Radio Shack and are complete and utter SHIT. The vast majority of new stereos in the world are SHIT. Under those conditions the FM radio sounds almost as good as the cd player. They both sound like SHIT. So anyone that has a problem with me listening to mp3s in my car can WALK! ____________________ www.psychicreform.com ____________________