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Much of the 'fault' lies in use of compression. Most commercial CDs are
compressed to hell and back. Especially
pop records, so that when kids hear them on their radios, the CD 'sounds the
same'. GACK!!! All FM stations
make a decision to trade off quality versus coverage area (the mathematical
theory about this [Bessel functions] is
quite interesting).

Electronic music tends to have wide dynamic range (lack of compression)
coupled with wide frequency spectra OR
narrow spectra (lots of 4-pole filtering going on). MP3 is a compromise
encoder that makes 'most music sound good'.
(the list of 'test' musical pasages that were evalutated is a can of worms
all to itself. Talk about bickering! One of
the committee members was a pipe organ nutcase. Lot's of pipe organ tests
were used).

Hope everone likes the sample snippets.

Paul S.