Okay, so, I was at a friends's last night, and we cranked up Clockwork Angels on his stereo (he is an audiophile and has has a magnificent-sounding stereo for as long as I have known him, which is 20+ years now), and I have to say that it sounded quite good. Yes, it still could have sounded a little better, but the bottom line is that the mix/production is not bad or anything close to that; it is simply a matter of listening to it on a good system. Like I said before, most basic car systems are not gonna have enough power to handle all of the low bass on the album, hence it distorting it and making it sound very muddy in that environment. But on a great stereo, Clockwork Angels sounds good; not great, not bad, but good. So, at this point, I am gonna have to assume anyone saying the CD sounds bad simply hasn't listened to it on a good stereo yet. In this day and age of iTunes and iPods, I'll bet that is a lot of people.