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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: wait a sec - iPod question |
| Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 18:35:18 -0400 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net>
> If I could walk around with
> a little machine strapped to my arm that plays 5,000 songs in full
> fidelity, I'd certainly be an instant buyer.
A 60GB iPod using Apple's lossless formatting (very similar to FLAC
and SHN, both of which are accepted by all but the most doctrinaire
audio fetishists) will hold well over 3000 three-minute pop songs.
There's little real difference between 3000 and 5000 songs in
real-life applications, I've found.
> I'm absolutely baffled that
> people are going in to clubs and plugging their mp3 players in to
> the
> sound system and people in the club are actually enjoying themselves
> listening. You gotta be kidding! Great DJ's still use VINYL for a
> very
> good reason.
Could be that the people listening actually are in it for the music
and not the audio quality. (Those fools! What misplaced priorities
they must have!) As for me, if I can listen happily to FM radio --
and I can -- and watch TV without one of those several-thousand-dollar
5.1 audio home theatre setups -- and I can -- then I'm certainly happy
with 160k mp3s. For one thing, I'm wearing this thing in the streets
and subways of Boston: If I were going to listen to it at volumes
loud enough to distinguish between file sizes over this level of
ambient noise, I would be as deaf as Townshend in the space of six
months. And at that point, file quality wouldn't exactly matter much
anymore, now would it?
S
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