How can I get better CD quality!

[Baydestrian]

Monte, he's not comparing the same songs, one from a purchased cd and one off the net. He's just wondering why his downloaded music doesn't sound so good and already stated that it's because he is downloading it from Datpiff or what not where quality is terrible on most albums.

Decaf is right though, everybody who complains about mp3s and how terrible they sound compared to FLAC when it comes to rap and what not are talking out their asses. I can guarantee they wouldn't be able to tell the difference if they were played both and had to guess which was which....unless maybe it's on a true SQ setup even then I bet it would minimal. Only time you will notice a drop is when its down at 128kbps other than that its purely on the recording source and not the bit rate.

[Chrysler200s]

Monte, he's not comparing the same songs, one from a purchased cd and one off the net. He's just wondering why his downloaded music doesn't sound so good and already stated that it's because he is downloading it from Datpiff or what not where quality is terrible on most albums.

Decaf is right though, everybody who complains about mp3s and how terrible they sound compared to FLAC when it comes to rap and what not are talking out their asses. I can guarantee they wouldn't be able to tell the difference if they were played both and had to guess which was which....unless maybe it's on a true SQ setup even then I bet it would minimal. Only time you will notice a drop is when its down at 128kbps other than that its purely on the recording source and not the bit rate.

You are correct wonderbread..I thought I explained it better than I obviously did. I dont really DL off of Datpiff, I normally get Lloyd Banks mixtapes off his website, but same difference.