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Originally Posted by Travis
Hey HejiraNYC,
I was going to guess that you were younger than me but I see you are two years older than me LOL. I guess it also depends on one’s lifestyle. I don’t live in the city so it’s not like I’m doing a lot of walking in the city, or taking the bus or metro, etc.. I can see where an iPod would come in handy in those situations. I’ll even admit, not this past Sunday but Sunday before last (when I only had the iPod for about 4 days) I hooked up with a friend of mine who I don’t get to see but once every 6 months. I wanted to show her some pictures from my vacation over the summer and it was nice to import the pics into the iPod and just bring that with me instead of the actual pictures. But again, it’s not like looking at the actual bigger picture, so that’s what I mean when I say you sacrifice quality for quantity. I’m also a VJ in DC and for the past 6 ½ years I’ve been playing every Saturday so I guess I’m used to high quality music. So the fact that I have to settle for less than that doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t know, I still may hang onto the damn thing.
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I really do not know why you insist that the audio of the iPod is inferior to CDs. Yes, mp3's are compressed, and if you run an mp3 signal through an analyzer, it will definitely look different from the uncompressed CD audio. But to the human ear, it should be virtually indistinguishable. And again, the bit rate of the mp3 is crucial. Also, if you are connecting to your car stereo via the headphone jack, I think the sound is going to suffer from the equalization of the analog signal. You should definitely try and get a direct link via a cradle/dock of some sort.
Another way of looking at it is that on an iPod "Classic," you can store every Fleetwood Mac recording ever released, every FM solo member recording, every FM-related demo, every FM-related live bootleg recording and every video. And you would still have enough room left for the rest of your entire CD collection. It truly is amazing that you have the ability to listen to anything you want whenever you want without getting up and hunting down a CD. Being from the vinyl LP and 45 generation (uh, thanks for pointing out my old age
), this continues to completely blow my mind.