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Listen to the intro of "Ventura Highway" in MP3. The guitar sounds like a strum. Listen to it in FLAC. You hear the thwack of the pick hitting the nylon strings, the resonance of the guitar body, and the stereo spread as the 12-string guitar pans across your speakers. The transient response—the attack of the note—is preserved.

At 1:17 a.m., between two songs, the player clicked and a new voice—soft, courier-flat, present—spoke from the disc as if the album had margins you could write in. America - Complete Greatest Hits - 2001- -FLAC-...