I think of music like a good meal. The carrots (drums) are cooked in its own pan. The bass Potatos (bass) is doing it's thing seperately [sic] in a pot. The meat (guitars) sizzle in its own pan too. And on and on with the other ingredients. And you're supposed to smell (hear) all these ingredients separately. What I heard (smelled) from Panasonic was all the ingredients thrown in the same pot and when you looked in it, sometimes you saw a carrot pop up. Sometimes a potato. Sometimes a meat poked its head above the morass. I thought it was the phones. It wasn't. The circuits thought only the most prominent sound should be amplified and everything else stayed in the background buried as puree until it decided something should pop up. I hope mpeg files aren't like this. All compressed in a mush until prominent peaks pop up.