I've been groping around the site blindly and all of a sudden I'm starting to find my way around! That said, I've read a lot of articles and such on higher sample rates and frequencies giving better quality. my problem here is, I just can't hear the difference and, since consumer cd's wind up at 16/44, why bother. I'm sure lots of audiofile bigwigs put their 2 cents in before the industry standard was established. To make it even more a puzzle, I now have some folks telling me to post my tunes on Soundclick and other sites devoted to independent uploads in lieu of myspace which they say sucks, results being better sounding playback quality. Doesn't that depend on your playback system and speakers? As I understand, the difference in CD and MP3 is that certain frequencies are eliminated that,(again) the human ear can't hear, for the sake of compacting to a slightly lower audio standard. I put some of my store bought cds in my computer library and then to an Ipod. They sound ok to me so I must assume that (a), either lots of people have better hearing than me which is possible,(B), These folks have a very high opinion of their ability to hear or,(c),they suffer from consumer gullibility, alias "kings new clothes" syndrome'.