Is "CHR" the streaming technology that the robot radio stations use? Dear sweet mother of chickens, I HATE that (the kids used to listen to Disney Radio in the car before I had "the incident"). It's like the forced oversampling used in that horrid 90s Cher song.
Henry Rollins - "If you have to fix it with a computer: quantized, pitch corrected, and overly inspected, then you can't do it, and I can't get behind that!"
I really think you're in that grey area of "just noticeable difference". I'd wager 95% of the populace can't detect the nuances you hear in a medium-grade system, much less with the FrogStrangler3000â„¢ you've got.
I've been slowly gathering all our music over the past month and importing it into iTunes. It's a chore, but it's really got me tweaked about music again. Plus, the Mrs. is a former jazz trumpet and she had a CD stash I didn't know about. So life is good.
Also, please be kind to eMusic. I am a newly devout apostle of that place. Just tonight, I've listened to a live Eartha Kitt concert and "6- And 12-String Guitar", both of which I doubt I'd have found on my own...