As an avid iPod (compressed music) listener who hadn't bought a CD for about 3 years before getting my Axioms, I can tell you I was amazed at the difference between the compressed music and the CD versions... I have a dock to pipe the iPod into my sound system and also use "AirTunes" to play music remotely over the system. These were my main source of audio for the last ~2 years.

I realize this is obvious to so many here, but after this long hearing nothing but compressed music, dropping the CD into the player and hearing the original source music was exactly like "lifting the veil" Mojo talked about.* \:D Now just wait until you run a BluRay audio track through the Axioms. \:o

* (I'll take the -500 point demotion too) ;\)

Epic 80-800: HG Cherry