Maybe the type of stuff I listen to has a bearing on it too. As I mentioned in the opening post I was listening to James Taylor - Quite simple music that may not be as affected by range loss? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Or barking mad? Mind you, I also listen to a lot of prog rock from my yoof and that does not seem to be affected either. I enjoy the occasional orchestral music but cannot honestly say I am in a position to make a comparison between old and new tech on that front.

Purely on the advice of someone yonks ago my self-digitised music is all done initially to a lossless format and then copied to a high rate MP3 for portability. From what people have said on here I seem to have got that right :-D

Thanks all for your interesting contributions.

DtG