This may not be the right place for this but what the hell...it's a public newsgroup. As someone who has listened to much live music and has collected vinyl and cd's for many years, I have tried in vain to get use to compressed, digitized, computerized music. I have a decent stereo system at home and I own two ipods as well as other mp3 players. I have imported and purchased many songs encoded in different formats and bit rates and it always sounds like something is missing. I suppose that is because it is. Recently I have started importing music in the AIFF Lossless format and find that this gets pretty close to sounding like the original recording (with a good pair of headphones). Of course the files take up a lot of space but I just synch my player more often and rotate the music. I am not complaining or preaching but I just wanted to share my thoughts and welcome any feedback. I am just concerned about what we are loosing to convience and portability. There is an excellent article in Rolling Stone about this topic if anyone is interested. Link follows. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity
