I think both pea_pod & Phyltre have made extremely valid points. Older processors & certainly the majority of older pc's used microprocessors that were not designed for graphic processing & their calculations were averaged, not accurate. Floating-Point Processor: 'is' very accurate; (I don't know about today's win pc's b/c it was used by macs & other high end computers) I read about it in an audio engineering book at university & was told about it by Apple when looking at a specialised video card some years ago that these were required. This point of course doesn't help.

Lack of knowledge/skills! Yeah once you had to do a course or learn from live mixing to know how to adjust sound properly. Too many novices with toys in their laps.

There's also 3rd party shareware softw for iTunes called Audio Hijack Pro which can equalise/clean mp3's etc. But if used in demo mode then after 15 days the mp3's will become more & more distorted (as stated by the company themselves.) I wonder! Read about it here! Strange in the manual it said 15 days. Oh well!

Good point about the broadcasts. I hadn't even thought about that.