Sound quality options..........

Before my Iphone 4s, my music device was a sony walkman and I really miss its sensational sound quality mainly because i could manually set it. Everyone was impressed by it, even other iphone users. Earphones were the apple earpods. Now why isn`t that option available in Apple devices?

Bill,
All songs sold in the iTunes Store are in AAC/256, with no other options.
There are other online music download stores that sell tracks in MP3/320, lossless, or hi-def (better than CD quality, a/k/a "studio quality").  None of them has the full selection that you find at the iTunes Store or Amazon MP3, but they certainly have a lot of stuff.  Examples are beatport.com, hdtracks.com, theclassicalshop.net, livedownloads.com, and many others.

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