Audio Systems: Please Help!, studio quality sound, playback equipment

Question
Sir Am a music lover to the core. I love music more than anything!! Is it possible to get studio quality music in home?I mean playback quality? If yes, what are the equipments needed? One important question is even on cheap loudspeakers, the music from radio stations sound perfect and pleasing! I have iPhone4 and Shure SE535 earphone and am having purchased songs from iTunes as i have a friend in Germany, he buys me songs from it! But am not getting even 50% of the sound quality i get from radio stations! Please help me i need to know the actual fact!! I can pay for this!!! And aslo there is a online radio station called radio girmit. Its website address is www.radiogirmit.com  please check it out! It streams only at 64kbps, but the quality is perfect and very pleasing! I don't know what is the actual secret in this! Even if i buy original CDs from stores and play it on the same speakers, i don't get the quality i get from that radio station which streams at 64kbps! Why is this? Please Help me!Please how they play songs in radio stations? It seems perfect and neutral!

Answer
There are no radio broadcasts that will provide studio quality sound.  Bit reduced audio is never studio quality.  iTunes and MP3 and variations thereof are compressed audio and are not true high fidelity.

Good quality CDs are very good and can be studio quality if mastered correctly.  But you must have top notch playback equipment and strong loudspeakers.  The speaker systems are nearly always the weakest link and you must spend at least twice the amount of money on the speakers as you would on the cd player and amps in order to get a well balanced studio quality sound.  Something like that.  It is a very subjective business so it requires some testing and experimentation to get the best sound quality.

Suggest you subscribe to some of the esoteric audio publications and check equipment rankings and review/ratings online which are many.

I will be glad to discuss further if you have more detailed questions but I do not make equipment recommendations due to the very subjective nature of the selection criteria.

Best wishes.