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Pandora is the issue, not your gear.

From the Pandora website:

"Pandora on the Web plays 64k AAC+ for free listeners and 192kbps for Pandora One subscribers. All in-home devices play 128kbps audio, and mobile devices receive a variety of different rates depending on the capability of the device and the network they are on, but never more than 64k AAC+."

Compare that to the 1411 kbps of your CD's and you can see how the audio quality suffers when listening through Pandora. Your equipment is fine and as you state it sounds great with CD's. Even with much lower quality audio gear you can hear the difference. Your gear is showing the gap in source quality.


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