the most notable difference is in the percussion. it sounds more crisp on wav/shn files than mp3s. listen for it, see if you notice.
also the issue is this..you may not personally care for if it is mp3 or not but think of this....
someone has the wavs/shns and converts to mp3, then burns and gives it to someone else. that person extracts them and encodes to mp3 again and passes it along. next person does the same thing. the file is losing quality every single time this happens and you will ultimately begin to notice. also, why wouldn't you want all copies out there to be as close to the original as possible and sound the best possible?
oh, and angela, shn is a standard in this world of live music trading. been around for years since music like this was first introduced to the internet. flac is starting to come up but hasn't made much of a dent yet. of course people won't trade studio cd rips or single songs in shn or flac, but it's always been this way for live shows online.Edited by: AllThatLies
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