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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Thanks for all the iPod feedback! |
| Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:51:19 -0400 |
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Personally, I don't think loss of fidelity is a reason to shun the iPod, and
I'm one of those crazies who can't understand why people convert their CDs
to MP3 and then get rid of the CDs. There is an audible fidelity loss...
but then, the point of iPods is to get a whole lot of music into the most
portable form possible; the advantages are pretty much all around
portability. So of course there will be trade-offs, and fidelity is one. I
use MP3 for portability and trial.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Stroud (Nocean)" <info@noceanstudios.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:43 PM
Subject: Thanks for all the iPod feedback!
> That's gotta be one of the more informative, personal, non-confrontational
> extended threads this list has had in a long time.
>
> And since I started the damn thing, I thought I'd chime in as well.
>
> I keep hearing "loss of fidelity" tossed around as a reason not to have
> one, but many people have already mentioned that most of the time, the
> iPod is being used in a less-than-acoustically perfect environment. For
> me, it's while I'm hiking, or taking the train, or driving between both
> ends of the great state of CA. None of these environments can match the
> quiet of my office, which is where I listen to stuff when I want to
> *listen hard*. So a 128 MP3 sounds just fine to me.
>
> And, oddly enough, since most of the time I'm listening to music through
> speakers, when I put on the headphones, I actually get the true, strong
> stereo effect, and I can pick out small things buried in the mix that are
> easier to hear when it's being fed right into your head. But I am very
> careful not to go too loud. I want to be able to hear, but if I'm in a
> place where the outside noise drowns things out, I just turn it off. I'm
> not going to fight loud noise with louder noise.
>
> Also, someone mentioned the benefits of shuffle, and I couldn't agree
> more. Individual songs get dredged up that I either wouldn't normally
> listen to, or I'd forgotten about. And sometimes they're unexpected
> treats.
>
> One thing I *don't* do, though, is put full albums on my iPod. For me, the
> listening experience is better when it's just the songs I really, really
> like. There are a few execeptions, like Prince's "Purple Rain" and My
> Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" and Queen's "Queen II", but for the most
> part, I like cherry-picking my mobile music.
>
> Thanks to everyone who chimed in. May the music never stop!
>
> Don
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