Here's a suggestion you might not have thought of. If you can arrange it, listen to your test rips on a decent pair of headphones, preferably via a good quality headphone amplifier, not a portable device like an iPhone.
This may matter because in my experience you'll hear things in a tune, a rip, or an audio mix via headphones that are hard to hear from speakers unless the speaker system is high resolution, the listening environment well isolated, and the volume pretty high.
This may matter because in my experience you'll hear things in a tune, a rip, or an audio mix via headphones that are hard to hear from speakers unless the speaker system is high resolution, the listening environment well isolated, and the volume pretty high.