I've had the same experience, some tracks that just have bad garbage in the high frequency range. but normaly when I play it on my home system, it sounds crystal clear. I'm using an apex 600, with coax digital to my yamaha 995a, EQ bypass, and effects processor off. so I know I'm not filtering anything.

like someone posted in another thread about a problem with a certin track just not riping well on his CD-ROM, (loss of stereo image) but playing fine on a cheap $50 portable.

I don't have the CD in question, and I don't know anyone with a huge CD collection :(

actualy, i take that back.. I know someone with a huge mp3 collection.. I'll search his database, he rips everything at 256cbr I belive.

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125