I find the compression on the icon less listenable than that on the stream because it has a burbling effect. I can live with that. The much more serious problem is this. When listening to a book from NLS, If you increase speed over 160%, the audio breaks up. I have only tried it on one book, "the ladies of covington send their love", and will try it on other books to test this. It does not do this on podcasts like abc world news. I can often listen to compression of 200% or more and fervently hope this can be fixed.