Mp3,wav,aac and so forth. The reason is simple: Though they are universally described in the mainstream press as being of "CD high quality," MP3s and their lossy-compressed ilk don't provide ample audio quality for severe music listening. …

As Wes Phillips lately reported on this website , CD sales are down and legal downloads of audio information are up. Stereophile has been criticized greater than once for not paying sufficient attention to the topics of MP3 and other compr…