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<blockquote data-quote="tommymilan311" data-source="post: 8404309" data-attributes="member: 664761">Started playing with my &quot;stage&quot; today. Sounded super flat, still using Pandora. I&#039;m going to get away from that shortly. I only have a Slipknot CD laying around. I&#039;ve seen Slipknot live, if they recorded properly they have a lot of pieces and this should help me with width and depth. Kinda hard to get width and depth with the poor recording/streaming, all kinda sounds flat. I could tell the vocalist was in the middle, lead left, rhythm right. The drums sounded less prominent than the vocals, but not really behind them, does that make sense? All the sound seemed like it was coming from the center of my window, but down by the security blinker thing. So I&#039;ll need to figure out how to raise that, and again, it could just be the recording. I think I&#039;m going to have to really work on sound proofing my car, but I was sitting in works parking lot so I wasn&#039;t competing with any road noise.I did do a little research last night regarding CD quality VS MP3 quality. What it came down to was 320K and CD quality had a unnoticeable difference. I can believe that when it comes to listening in headphones, or on a phone. But what about cars, or home theater were a stage is set and your locking for &quot;live performance&quot; type quality? Do they still all have there own space? This was much harder to find and I had found no definitive answer.Here is a slide show I just found this morning: <a href="http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf</a>It pretty interesting if you have some time. This one says that most common and even &quot;trained&quot; listeners cannot tell the difference, but expert listens could in their genre of expertise, or something like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tommymilan311, post: 8404309, member: 664761"] Started playing with my "stage" today. Sounded super flat, still using Pandora. I'm going to get away from that shortly. I only have a Slipknot CD laying around. I've seen Slipknot live, if they recorded properly they have a lot of pieces and this should help me with width and depth. Kinda hard to get width and depth with the poor recording/streaming, all kinda sounds flat. I could tell the vocalist was in the middle, lead left, rhythm right. The drums sounded less prominent than the vocals, but not really behind them, does that make sense? All the sound seemed like it was coming from the center of my window, but down by the security blinker thing. So I'll need to figure out how to raise that, and again, it could just be the recording. I think I'm going to have to really work on sound proofing my car, but I was sitting in works parking lot so I wasn't competing with any road noise. I did do a little research last night regarding CD quality VS MP3 quality. What it came down to was 320K and CD quality had a unnoticeable difference. I can believe that when it comes to listening in headphones, or on a phone. But what about cars, or home theater were a stage is set and your locking for "live performance" type quality? Do they still all have there own space? This was much harder to find and I had found no definitive answer. Here is a slide show I just found this morning: [URL="http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf"]http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf[/URL] It pretty interesting if you have some time. This one says that most common and even "trained" listeners cannot tell the difference, but expert listens could in their genre of expertise, or something like that. [/QUOTE]

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