The headphones i currently use are a $50 pair that i picked up a year ago and still work wonderfully. The range on them is 6-23,000Hz and usually i use the highest bitrate and quality unless i am on my mobile computer in which i lower the quality to save space and to just have the files so my MP3 player is not cleared when i charge it.
One thing i'd like to comment is that i DO find a difference a lot of times between bitrates and a loss of quality due to burning to a CD and reimporting. At one time i had to back up my music collection, however small it was at the time, and upon reimporting it i found a serious loss in quality due to something i couldn't explain.
In response to the cheap PC speakers comment, i'm one of the weird people that spent $80 on a 2.1 speaker system just because i wanted the quality and frankly, it sounds good.
Now to make this post a relevant one, If people are honestly worried about quality and needing the highest, then go buy a CD, that way you won't have to worry at all about DRM or anything to speak of aside from putting a CD in the tray and clicking "Import" through iTunes or your favorite music importing program. This would allow for both a bypass of the DRM and having to get rid of that for use on non-iPod devices and also, for those audiophiles like me that require over 128kbps quality, allows for near perfect, if not perfect, quality straight from the cd itself.
Yes yay for getting rid of the DRM but come on, trying to market it as if it's something new? Not likely to really do anything or cause any problems or excitement in the world.
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Unfortunately the mp3 player i use doesn't even use anything below 20Hz or above 20KHz.
The headphones i currently use are a $50 pair that i picked up a year ago and still work wonderfully. The range on them is 6-23,000Hz and usually i use the highest bitrate and quality unless i am on my mobile computer in which i lower the quality to save space and to just have the files so my MP3 player is not cleared when i charge it.
One thing i'd like to comment is that i DO find a difference a lot of times between bitrates and a loss of quality due to burning to a CD and reimporting. At one time i had to back up my music collection, however small it was at the time, and upon reimporting it i found a serious loss in quality due to something i couldn't explain.
In response to the cheap PC speakers comment, i'm one of the weird people that spent $80 on a 2.1 speaker system just because i wanted the quality and frankly, it sounds good.
Now to make this post a relevant one, If people are honestly worried about quality and needing the highest, then go buy a CD, that way you won't have to worry at all about DRM or anything to speak of aside from putting a CD in the tray and clicking "Import" through iTunes or your favorite music importing program. This would allow for both a bypass of the DRM and having to get rid of that for use on non-iPod devices and also, for those audiophiles like me that require over 128kbps quality, allows for near perfect, if not perfect, quality straight from the cd itself.
Yes yay for getting rid of the DRM but come on, trying to market it as if it's something new? Not likely to really do anything or cause any problems or excitement in the world.