Mark Lanctot;171659 Wrote: > Yes, it used to be that music was produced for listening over a car > radio, now it's probably produced for how it plays back in 128 kbps AAC > form in an iPod.
Which is doubly sad - and apologies because this is probably off topic, but it does bug me - because if one uses an iPod to play back lossless or uncompressed files at max. bitrate/sample rate (1411kbps/44.1kHz for uncompressed), through a pair of really good headphones or something like the Shure e5c and the sound quality is pretty good, considering it's a pocket package. They are not, inherently, bad machines. They seem to me much, much more competent than Sony Walkman cassette players used to be, for instance. These I always found them completely unlistenable - horrible things, except for the one Professional model that no-one in their right mind would carry except for professional purposes. From imperfect memory, they also seem to me to be at least as good as any of the mini-disc Walkmans I heard. I've just had a go, though, at listening to a Shuffle (old style white one) playing 128kbps, using a pair of little Koss folders - not wonderful, but better than the supplied earbuds by some way - and it was truly ghastly. The internals of the Shuffle are - I imagine - nothing like as competent as those of the top of range video iPod, but even so - well, what a complete waste to use an iPod to play iTunes Music Store crud. -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31801 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
