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<blockquote data-quote="DidUHearThat?" data-source="post: 5687005" data-attributes="member: 594758"><p>It's quite possible it's just the recording. Unfortunetly, thanks to ipods/MP3's most modern recordings are acutally of lower quality than just a few years ago. They're designed to sound good on earbuds from an Ipod at the lowest possible cost. Not sound great on a high quality system.</p><p></p><p>Listen to the same portion of the recording with good quality headphones and see if the distortion is still there. I can hear lots of imperfections in recordings on my system and more with good studio grade headphones. Live recordings are especially prone to quality problems.</p><p></p><p>If you can't repeat the distortion with headphones or on another system it could be your system. Do you hear it at lower volumes or only when it's loud? Not all CD players playback the same either. I have a very good CD player (high end Dennon) in my car, but it doesn't like certain disks, and I hear distortions from a few albums that I don't get in other CD players. It depends on how it was recorded and coded. Usually my CD player sounds better than any other player I own.</p><p></p><p>MP3's ****.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DidUHearThat?, post: 5687005, member: 594758"] It's quite possible it's just the recording. Unfortunetly, thanks to ipods/MP3's most modern recordings are acutally of lower quality than just a few years ago. They're designed to sound good on earbuds from an Ipod at the lowest possible cost. Not sound great on a high quality system. Listen to the same portion of the recording with good quality headphones and see if the distortion is still there. I can hear lots of imperfections in recordings on my system and more with good studio grade headphones. Live recordings are especially prone to quality problems. If you can't repeat the distortion with headphones or on another system it could be your system. Do you hear it at lower volumes or only when it's loud? Not all CD players playback the same either. I have a very good CD player (high end Dennon) in my car, but it doesn't like certain disks, and I hear distortions from a few albums that I don't get in other CD players. It depends on how it was recorded and coded. Usually my CD player sounds better than any other player I own. MP3's ****. [/QUOTE]
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