You wrote:

I'm not into mp3s because they sound poor on my equipment.

My experience is that PCs are often the worst place to listen to MP3's.

I listen to a lot of MP3 music ripped directly from CDs, and I do my own encodings of radio shows and tapes that I've made. The difference in quality between the system here at work, which has a crappy sound card that only takes 8bit output and feeds two tiny speakers in the front of the machine, and my system at home which is fully 16bit and directly feeds a home stereo system placed strategically around my ears, is incredible. The same track that sounds tinny, staticky (caused by the 8bit conversion) and dull really kicks at home.

Likewise, if you encode your tracks with the wrong program you can get really crappy audio. As I've said on another thread, BladeEnc sounds the same as the Fraunhofer encoder at 128KBit (as far as I can tell) but at 56Kbit it's completely obvious that BladeEnc just doesn't cut it. Encoding all your tracks as 8Kbit files is going to put you off MP3 right quick ;-D

So, go and hear someone else's system / empeg and be convinced :-)

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