Where are you getting your mp3s from? I noticed most lower quality mp3s from Napster are very poor quality, except for some of the new songs. The encoder has a lot to do with how "muddy" it can sound.

The mp3 are (almost) all encoded by me with lame at VBR setting 3 (about 160kbs) joint stereo.

I'll get my own setup soon so that I'll be able to experiment with the equalizer and other settings. I'll follow up with the results...

Borislav