My next suggestion would make the entire Audiophile forum burst into flames, so thanks for posting in the General Discussion forum, for everyone's sake.
I think that lack of detail you may be hearing is not from the file format, DAC, EMI, headphone jack, or headphones. It's the wind (and let's hope also just a little less concentration on the music). I hypothesize that if you took your audio and passed it through a dynamic range compressor, you'd be able to hear all of that low-volume detail that you think the iPod is having trouble with. Yes, it would distort the audio in a lossy fashion (for goodness sakes only do this on a COPY of your music!). Yes, even better it would clip your audio too. But I believe it's quite likely that the audio quality lost by all of these factors would be less than that lost by a poor listening environment, which is what I think your main problem is. I am 100% serious. If you're up for experimentation, there's a Linux utility called sox, which has a "compand" feature for exactly this purpose. The sox manual gives the following example: sox input.flac output.flac compand 0.3,1 6:-70,-60,-20 -5 -90 0.2 You can adjust the third-to-last argument to address clipping. I think -5 is too high and clips too much, YMMV. But you're not going to be able to get rid of clipping entirely in this process. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
