Nice reply, I listen to you because you are a NUT ;) and I don't have my stereo setup for listening. Actually, I only have one speaker set up so I can't do any Stereo quality comparisons. I almost rode down to walmart (or RadioShack) to pick up some nice headphones but I'm not certian as to which headphones are best quality for the money. I'm tired of all this work to get a 1 CD encode to look and sound good. I realize now why I used to go the 2 CD AC3 route as it is so much easier and less time consuming for a quality outcome. Then again, Enemy at the Gates has been the hardest movie I've ever attempted. Neither XVID nor Divx5 has been giving me correct filesize on this movie, and I'm sure they can't be saturated. Anyway, before I risk going too far off topic, I think I'm going to resort to using Vorbis for comedies and drama's only and stick to AC3 for the rest.