If you consider that CD is about 1440kbps, and the streams from internet radio rarely exceed 64kbps -- compressing the audio to half of the information contained in most mp3's -- I think it is far too much to expect high audio quality from these internet streaming stations. [funnily enough, both XM and Sirius Radio are both compressing to about 64kbps, too]
The reason one should listen to it is the content mostly, but a well recorded CD [heck even a poorly recorded one] will blow the pants off of these compressed audiostreams.
A lot of people put a lot of time into doing this - and get mixed results - but it does not sound as good as CD and you will only be disappointed if that is where you expectations are set.
They all say "CD quality" - and it is true in the sense that there is little white noise, no fade outs, but the basic audio quality is nowhere near CD really.
