Posted 06/02/2007 at 10:28:48pm

Apple recommends all people creating content for their store submit the best possible source, preferably 24 bit and 96 Khz minimum. A real test would have been to purchase the track twice, once as iTunes Plus and once at iTunes DRM file. To test the quality ripped from a CD (at 44.1/16) vs. a 96/24 source tells us little about the store audio file quality differentiation. This is not a test of ripping quality - you could have done that years ago. If you want to compare iTunes to iTunes Plus, buy iTunes and iTunes Plus audio tracks and compare them. I can't beleive how badly you guys botched this test.