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iPod hooked up to a home stereo...how does it sound?
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With a few hundred CDs and many that I don't listen to because a) there are only a few good tracks or b) I forgot about it, the iPod is intriguing. How does the iPod sound hooked up to a home system if you download the tracks at 192kbps setting compared to the original CD? I downloaded a track on my computer (hooked up to my home system) as a 192kbps MP3 and it sounded pretty close to the original.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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you said it... "pretty close" but I can tell with some songs... Actually, with some songs, I can tell the difference between a CD and a record... there isn't anything like a record...
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ah... a purist. I agree, LPs do have a great "natural" sound, but they are hard to put on random play. My days of sitting in a perfect tiangle from the speakers as I inspect the dust jacket for 22 minutes are quite over. Its more like, "quick put something on our dinner guests are going to be here any minute -- any why isn't the disk in the case?!" And that's what I'm looking for... something that can organize my collection and I can just hit play.
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I use my iPOD regularly with my AMP. The sound is very good indeed.
BTW, for the guys that wish a more 'natural sound' from their CDs, switch to a 16 bit D/A converter. It makes for much more 'natural' sound which is on a par with vinyl.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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I was going to ask you all about your preference for records, but I dont want to stray to far off topic.
Go to <a href="http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=45;t=006625" target="_blank">CD's vs. Records</a> in the lounge.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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the clarity is all in how you encode it, the higher the better sounding, but I honestly can't tell the difference between 192 and 320 but I listen to NIN Rage Tool and other harder stuff so clairity isn't that important.
With it hooked up to a stereo it seems to have little or no guts, I have to have the volume pumped and my reciver is around -40bd to compared to around -50bd with my cd player, but hay I don'y have to change cds every 15 songs and it is so tiny.
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I GOT WASTED WITH PHIL SHERRY!!!
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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when it comes to MP3 encoding, LAME done at 192+kbps VBR is the ideal size/quality break-point. As for the ideal encoding, it's LAME at max quality. Even if you have the best audio equipment, the difference between CD audio and MP3 audio is minimal. (I have audiophile friends who tell me they can't tell the difference) However, I can't find anything regarding iPod's performance-to-noice ratio. My guess is that it's in the 90dB range, and the ideal is above 100...oh well...
(btw, iTunes use Fraunhoffer (sp?) encoder, which isn't as good as LAME. Audion is the only major Mac encoder that supports LAME to my knowledge, if someone can point me to some other stuff, that'll be great, 'cuz Audion is simply too unstable to be of practical usage  )
with that said, hooking an iPod to a stereo with proper MP3 encoding, you'll hardly notice any difference! Just don't use the equalizer settings in your iPod, since those are terrible!
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G4/450, T-bird 1.05GHz, iBook 500, iBook 233...4 different machines, 4 different OSes...(9, 2k, X.1, YDL2.2 respectively) PiA to maintain...
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