OT: Buying an iPod in Toronto: recommendations please

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 04:08:51PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> By headphones, I don't mean those ear buds, which I don't care to use.  
> Once you hit a certain quality point, spending more only means you can 
> hear the distortion better.

As I just said in another email, it doesn't let you hear distorsion, it
just doens't cover it up in extra distorsion.  Besides on a lot of MP3s
you really can't tell the difference anyhow versus the uncompressed,
even with good headphones, all you can tell is the good headphones sound
way better with both compressed and uncompressed audio either way.

> There's a lot of poor quality hardware around that I can't stand to 
> listen to.  Why do some people think a portable "boom box" is an 
> adequate sound system for a large room?  All you get is lots of noise!  
> I've been in many stores etc., where the sound system is so bad that I 
> don't like to listen to anything, not even my favourite music.  Then 
> there's the phone hold "music" that's bad enough on a regular phone, but 
> torture on a cell phone.

Music through a voice filter tends to sound bad. :)

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