WOW - I have so much to learn. And I thought it was just a case of slapping in a CD and letting it go. Someone posted a link to info about different encoding methods and bit rates that I looked at last week ( sorry, I've been away since and forget the specifics ) but I took a look at that and there is some serious rethinking I have to do. I've started looking at different players - been happily using MusicMatch up till now. It's no bother redoing my CDs as I can do this again and again, the problem is where I've transferred stuff from tape, done the filtering and improvements and then converted to MP3 at 128 kbps and then in my naivety deleting my source .wav thinking if I want/need to improve things then I can just redo the MP3 at a higher rate.

The way I've been doing things, it sounds fine on my current system but I'm starting to worry that I might start to notice imperfections when I get a decent set of amp and speakers in the car.

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Steve - 18GB Mk II Sssmokey