I can't answer your question directly as I used 128 from the get go and didn't use the the compression at all but you might try and reimport some of those muddy songs under an used bookid # at the higher bit rate and see if you notice a difference.
I did notice that the hoster music sounded a little flat so I did my tweaking on the soundcard EQ so that my channel pot eq's stay pretty close to flat , then i make minor adjustment to suit a particular song.
Sam
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