How do you go listening to compressed music files (eg mp3)?
If these sound ok like FM radio, it could be that your hearing is especially sensitive to some forms of digital distortion which would be annoying to your ears from a quality CD player and rig, but not audible in compressed files or the dynamically compressed and imperfect nature of FM radio.
Try burning an audio CD from some compressed files (like mp3 or aac) of songs you're familiar with and play that on your rig. I'd be interested to hear what you find.
If these sound ok like FM radio, it could be that your hearing is especially sensitive to some forms of digital distortion which would be annoying to your ears from a quality CD player and rig, but not audible in compressed files or the dynamically compressed and imperfect nature of FM radio.
Try burning an audio CD from some compressed files (like mp3 or aac) of songs you're familiar with and play that on your rig. I'd be interested to hear what you find.