On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Richard Clark wrote: > not even listening to them, well i just started listening and this new > format is terrible nothing compared to my mp3's at 190 also during > songs i hear the volume going up and down. > That's actually some hideous peak limiter that Apple added to iTunes v4, rather than anything to do with AAC. The problems seems to vanish with the Eq and/or Sound Enhancer turned off. :-/ john