obobskivich
Headphoneus Supremus
This times a million. If a song has 2822 kbps and is in 24-bit wav, yet only has 4dB of dynamic range and is hard clipping on the master, it's going to sound like garbage. Plain and simple.
+1. It really depends on the content as to how much you can deflate the 0s out and make it sound alright. Also, at least in the US, OTA does not use mp3, it uses AC-3, which is quite different (and I'll challenge anyone to legitimately pick a good AC-3 stream from an MLP stream; codec fanboyism is silly and the second I see DTS mentioned I stop reading because it usually degrades into foamy hype). SPEAKING OF, this is the criminal marketing thing, and I think DTS (not Datasat) should get a nice big knock on the head, based on how insane the hype claims surrounding their "magic" are.