Phil Bunker wrote: >I've been very disappointed at the quality of the sound I'm getting on >BBC 3, especially the sound of a piano. ... Probably net congestion where you are. I listen via @home.com cablemodem from San Francisco bay area and it sounds great. Andrys in Berkeley http://www.andrys.com/books.html Search sheet music, videos, CDs, books [It's the limitation of Real Audio and the extremely lossy compression they apply to the signal to make it "fit" on the net - about the quality of an AM radio, even in it's most recent incarnation. We are still several years away from good quality music broadcasting on the web. -Dave]