The reason that you can hear the difference in the quality of the MP3 files is not due to the nature of the compression scheme but because there are 2 basic types of software based algorithms. The worst is the floating point algorithm while the MADD integer based algorithm used by WinAmp sounds completely different and so much better. The reason is that using floating point for an integer based scheme results in significant errors in calculations.
I highly recommend WinAmp for MP3 files. Any of your other favorite software for other lossy files like ACC+ or others.
I highly recommend WinAmp for MP3 files. Any of your other favorite software for other lossy files like ACC+ or others.