Quote Originally Posted by Troy
What am I missing?
What you're missing is, it's not intended to replace your music collection, but rather to supplement it.

Some people (myself only partially so) only care about the music -- so the medium, cover art, liner notes...L some peeps don't even care who does it, they just want to be able to listen to something (and hence the dark murk of quality which is top 40 radio).

So me, I use it for travel -- car, walking, etc. (Or rather, will use it, as I haven't entirely figured it out yet.) And it's good for that. And if you use lame compression (a collection of presets), it doesn't sound half bad, for what you're doing.