Saw this on slashdot... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/2029212&mode=nested&tid=134&threshold=0 I don't think there's much to his theory, but you never know. Of course, if the missing sound in an mp3 causes hearing loss, I wonder what all the "mistaken sound" in microsound does to us? ;o) b ------------------------------