Higher quality music

During my most recent iTunes song purchase, I was offered some special format, high-quality download. It's $1.29 instead of $0.99. Does anyone believe the quality is better? About 30% better?
Thanks!
Lindsay

The sound quality will be better with this but this is not the only selling point of the extra $.30 for the higher quailty version. By paying $1.29 you are also getting music that can be played on any music player that can play AAC files. If you own an iPod and never want another music player then pay the thirty cents for the quailty. If you think you may at some point want to switch to another mp3 player, then you have the satisfaction of knowing you have no restrictions from the iTunes plus (higher quality) music, and you can play that music anywhere you wish.
Hope this helped your decision making.
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ie Create TIFF;'s>Quicktime PRO>iMovie (transistions)>iDvd
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