Hm. I have a strange problem with the latest Madonna album.

I bought this off iTunes, and downloaded it wirelessly. On my iPod it did not sound too bad, but then again I listened to it on a plane to somewhere, so I may not have been to critical to the quality of the recording. (I have to say that all previous Madonna albums have been produced to a very high audio quality).

So it cam as a bit of a surprise when I played the album on the main stereo at home. (Background: The album now lives on my laptop - which publishes it's music to the local area network, and this in turn is picked up by a iMac living by the stereo - with my old Quad loudspeakers.) The sound quality was so bad that I started thinking that the mains supply to the loudspeakers had been turned off (electrostatic loudspeakers keep the charge for a very long time after you turn off the mains - with the quality gradually getting worse and worse).

The encoding is 128 kbit/s, AAC, so it should be of decent quality...

I will now start investigating this - but I'd be interested to know about others experiences?

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