OT: Buying an iPod in Toronto: recommendations please

[James Knott]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>   
>> I was referring to good quality headphones vs better quality, where
>> both are better than MP3's are capable of.
>>     
> That is in the ear of the beholder, so to speak.
>
> Why compound distortions (made in the mp3 creation) with more
> distortions (introduced by crummy speakers)? Or is the desire to
> compensate for the deficiencies in MP3s by making them sound even worse?
>
>   

As I mentioned in another note, the better headphones will only make it 
easier to hear the distortion.  You cannot hear better than what the 
source provides, no matter how good the equipment.  It's physically 
impossible.  MP3's work by removing a lot of the "unnecessary" sounds in 
the original.  With proper listening conditions, you can hear that 
difference.  Once that music has been compressed, the result is already 
more different from the original than any difference good quality 
equipment is likely to reproduce.  If you're talking about CD quality or 
better, then perhaps better phones will help.


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