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I imported all my songs at the highest quality 196. Try this and prove to yourself that there is a difference. Import a song at 64k and then play it. Then play the origional song off the CD+G. You will hear the sound difference between the lowest quality and the highest quality. There is a big difference. With the CDG you do not have to have the volume up as loud as you do when playing an imported song. If you have a large enough hard drive and we should all be using mammoth hard drives (mine is a 250 gig) then import them at the highest quality. They will take up twice as much space as 64k but sound much better when played at high volume. Hard drive prices are very cheap today and you have a lot of money invested in your sound equipment I would assume so why skimp on importing?

I felt that there was enough sound quality issue that I even purchased a new 300 watt mixer vs my old 250 watt mixer just to give me a little more power boost. There were times when I had to have the volume all the way up on the 250 watt mixer. The 300 watter is just about right.

Custome made Monarch small form factor 3.0 GHZ Intel Processor
1 Gb RAM
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Retail
250 GB Maxtor hard drive