This great article from the NYTimes.com discusses the pros/cons of various forms of bitrate encoding.  As digital storage gets cheaper by the day, music companies are starting to increase the bitrate sampling of songs they make available online (currently for a premium).  Some are even taking Super Audio CD tracks and sampling them at ridiculous rates (one song = 250MB).  From my own experience, as compression gets above 192 kbps, the differential between the original source music and its digital facsimile starts to fade.  Do I still look for SACDs and DVD-As when possible to add to my classical and jazz collection?  Sure!  But for pop/electronica/lounge tunes, etc., increasingly I find myself buying songs online given that the majority of my ‘leisure’ listening experience is through a set of Bang & Olufsen A8 earphones at work.

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