I have a question about MP3 sound quality on my PC. I'm a little disappointed in the sound I'm getting from my system - I have a 90Mhz Pentium, AT&T VCos sound/modem card (16 bit) and have tried a few MP3 players that are freeware and shareware - my favorites are Sonique and Rain Player. I'm especially concerned about vocal tracks - they sound like they are coming through a telephone line. I have grabbed tracks off of CD's and stored them as wave files. Theoretically they should sound identical to the CD tracks but they don't - they are just as bad as the MP3 (still way better than RealAudio though). I wonder if the Digital to Analog converters on my sound card are messing things up? I'm pretty sure that the CD Rom drive has it's own D/A converters, and the cable from it to the sound card only goes to the analog part of card (otherwise you couldn't listen to audio CD's with headphones plugged into your CD Rom drive, right?). So the D/A converters must be at fault. The other possibility is that since MP3 is compressed, it obviously takes some processing power to decompress it, and maybe my 90MHz Pentium isn't up to the task? Or maybe the shareware/freeware I'm using isn't. I guess my question is, will those of you who think your MP3's are nearly indistiguishable from CD quality please describe what hardware/software combination you use to get those results?