[Richard Crowley]

"Radium" wrote ...
Do one thing. Try listening to a non-WMA compression file -- such as
MP3 -- whose format is in stereo -- or better yet, 7.1 surround --
with
a sample-rate of 44.1 khz, and a bit-rate of 20 kbps. Tell me how you
like it -- if you can still keep your sanity.

Listening to anyting at 20Kbps is insane by definition.
Why would I do such a silly thing in the first place?

I don't really have any interest in playing the audio
compression version of "How Low Can You Go?"
I'll leave you kids to your games.