QUOTE (punkrockdude @ Oct 25 2012, 11:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If it is from iTunes ("store" maybe) and it is "bad" then "maybe" would "like" a lossless file so that "he can be sure" that the "quality" is how it is "supposed" to be. "Ok"?
"Ok", but even if there were some compression artifacts in that track and he were able to spot them (i.e. positively ABX them), he could not realistically expect a night and day difference, as he seems to imply with "really bad" as opposed to "good" he expects from lossless.
I'm leaded to think that the very bad sounding could be due to a bad mastering or mixing (i.e. artistically bad
).