OT: Buying an iPod in Toronto: recommendations please

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> MP3s do not sound distorted necesarily.  They just lack some detail.
If the output is not identical to the original, it is distorted.  The 
removal of information (lossy compression) is distortion.  There are 
other forms of distortion, such as phase shift, clipping (as you 
mentioned about your sound card.), non-linearity, quantizing noise and 
others.  The fact that you may not notice the difference does not mean 
there's no distortion. Also, everything in the audio reproduction chain 
introduces some amount of distortion, the only question is how much.



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