I'm going to grab the CD when I get home and do more listening. All I have at work is the 128 kb/s Vorbis file, and the ding gets pretty muffled.
Hey, my speakers here suck, the volume is kept reasonably low, so 128 kb/s means I can store more music.

There's only a handful of songs that sound bad when I'm not paying attention. Hopefully RC3 does even better on those. Heh.
NP - "Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale - 05 - I Think About"