Jan Templiner observes:

>if I hadn't know it's MP3s, I wouldn't have noticed.  And Mahler 2
>surely is something where one should notice.

Not all MP3s are equal.  The standard allows trading off fidelity for
file size.  My understanding is it is possible from MP3 to approach CD
quality, though most of what gets downloaded into those tiny players is
of considerably poorer quality.

len.