DPMO I just read your response. Sorry if my question came across dickish. It was late and what I meant to ask was if audio books do a good job of setting scena and detailing characters like a book does or of you lose some of that on audio books as if you were watching a movie with your eyes closed. In that scenario you lose out on a lot of things your eyes would clue you in on.
Honestly, this is my first foray into audio books. For HP, there are a couple of audio book versions out there. Stephen Fry is reading the one I'm listening to and I've enjoyed how he does it. He has a nice pace to it, does a good job of distinguishing between character voices and I haven't had a hard time visualizing scenes or anything. There's not any music or anything like that, just him reading. The other version, I'm told, does have some dramatic music at parts, but I really like the one I've been listening to.