mp3 players

[frankiepop]

are there any preferences --- particularly do any have better sound or sound capability than others...

[shrugs]

read the Jan. Cadence.
Vladimir has a lot to say about compresed digital formats.
Why go backwards?

[frankiepop]

well if it is so impressive what did he say in a nutshell.
i tossed mine i think already.


and who in the hell is vladmir??

[frankiepop]

and i would like to take this opportunity to thank
jazzcorner for moving my thread to an obscure
region of your bulletin board where only about
2 or 3 four eyed fanatics rarely ever visit and
hate mp3s.

i think mp3 and audio -- (phile)

which means love of 'perfect' sound find
mp3 and audiofile an oxymoron or something...

[moneyp]

It wasn't me!

There's some talk about MP3 players on the "iPod and Windows" thread.

[frankiepop]

o i cant wait to hear what the audiophiles have instore..


my thread is destined to die without answers like the late grapes of the fall
left after harvest to wither and die a silent insignificant death
unnoticed as if its presence never really graced mother earth....not even
the angels cared to notice

[gnhrtg]

I'm very happy with my iRiver imp 550 - which is a discman/mp3 player. This is factory upgradable whicih allows you to more or less keep up to date with the new codecs and stuff. I use 256 kb encoding which allows for around 340 mins per disc - I've A-B'd with the audio discs using my records which have lots of shrill cymbals and deep bass etc., and could not tell the difference. For headphones I use Sony fontopia's which do a miraculous job of isolating environmental sound/noise so that you actually can listen to music on the go without having to turn on the volume to deafening levels. The problem is that they have too little bass but the iRiver has an equalizer where you can partly compensate for this. The iRiver is quite thin too. As I've said, I've gotten this about a month or two ago and have so far been very satisfied with it, soundwise and robustnesswise - though I'm by no means an audiophile.

[Tom Storer]

I have an Expanium 500 CD walkman that reads audio CDs and MP3s burned to CD. It's lasted me two or three years and I am perfectly satisfied with it. Unfortunately, I dropped it once too often and now it's going senile. If you're less clumsy than I am, it's a nice device.

[shrugs]

Originally posted by frankiepop
well if it is so impressive what did he say in a nutshell.
i tossed mine i think already.


and who in the hell is vladmir??

Slams the quality, in a nutshell.

Vladimir runs North Country audio and has been doing a piece called Sonics in Cadence for years. Do you just look at the pictures?

[Jim Dye]

Does it slam the quality any more than a cassette? I never heard complaints about quality when the first Sony walkmans hit the market.

Most people who use mp3s do so because of the portability. The often used audiophile argument is a red herring.

[shrugs]

He talks about all portable formats. But his main focus is on that many people are using mp3 for their home listening. How portable is your 300 gb hard drive? I know we aren't too far away from people dumping their stereos in favor of a computer stereo system. People I used to work with had already done this. My neighbor uses her computer as a stereo and downloads everything she wants.

[Jim Dye]

Yeah, I can see that happening since hard drive space is so cheap. I still think there will always be an audiophile market.

I have a pretty cheap system (Klipsch Quartets/Adcom Amp) and even on my old pioneer turntable, a clean record will absolutely kill the digital counterpart. No comparison. Not even close. However, I haven't checked out SACD or DVD-A yet.

[frankiepop]

Vladimir runs North Country audio and

oh

Do you just look at the pictures?

uh yeah..