Everyone needs to remember also that you are listening to MP3 recordings that have lossy compression and can ( and will ) cause artifacts and phase problems in certain frequency bands. Most MP3s I hear do not even equal well recorded tape cassettes. While it is nice to listen to MP3s using high quality monitors it is impossible to accurately judge sound quality from MP3 recordings, just the performance and musicality. Until bandwidth allows us to download uncompressed audio judging sound quality is futile.