[fuesquemill]

256kbps mp3's are perfectly good unless yer ears are super human and you spend £10k on speakers. i have what i'd call a decent set of speakers. logtech digital ones anyway, and my hearing is fine. this is just one of those arguments people who are completely anal like to make.

Logitech don't make high grade speakers...

That's probably why you don't hear the difference. I have logitech Z-5500 and they are no good for music. You need to have proper HiFi equipment to hear the difference between mp3 and CD. Most noticeable is the treble on the top end turns to mush. You should possibly be able to hear that on logitechs. Throwing anything more than 320kbps at an mp3 doesn't seem to improve the quality, you need to other (better) codecs or just use no compression.

It's not about being anal. You just haven't sat down and listened to better HiFi equipment.