Propetiary file systems are required if you want an MP3 player that has good battery life. Manually indexing a FAT32 drive every time you start up the MP3 player takes up quite a bit of power.
The iPod does this a little by using iTunes to pre-index everything, but it still lags behind all of the Creative players in terms of battery life.
Nope, it's definitely not that. I purchased new headphones, Grado-SR 60's and tested two identical copies (I ripped these) of the same song on a 3g iPod and my Zen Xtra.
Being an audiophile doesn't mean blowing $1000 on your sound equipment. You can get excellent headphones for $50-$70, and the Zen Xtra is $100 cheaper than the iPod.
It does. There's something called a sound-to-noise ratio, if you've heard of it. Curiously enough, Apple has not released those specificiations.
Shitty electronics introduce noise. Unfortunately, Apple decided to spend more money designing the click wheel than designing the electronics, so the iPod suffers from one of the worse sound-to-noise ratios out there.
When I listen to the same song on my friend's iPod and compare it to my Nomad Xtra, I can tell the difference. Most people wouldn't care, but I'm something of a budding audiophile, so I'm steering clear of the iPod for awhile.
i don't think it's a style-statement either, people are just sick of dealing with buggy virus-laden software and bad design. it doesn't help that MS are everything bad about big business in this country as well.
Interestingly enough, the iPod is on the negative end of the spectrum when it comes to sound quality. Anyone who actually *cares* about the sound of their music does not buy an iPod. When iPods stop becoming trendy (like iMacs used to be), only people who really *need* to store 40GB of music will purchase it. And anyone who has that much music should be looking for sound quality.
I stick with my heavy and cheap Zen Xtra simply because it's sound quality is leaps and bounds better than the iPod's.
And when your hard drive crashes or your iPod battery dies, you'll be up shit creek.
CD storage is much more stable than hard-drive storage. That's quite a big problem. I'm not sure, as I've never used iTMS to purchase music, but what happens if your hard drive fails? Do you lose all of the music you paid for?
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Propetiary file systems are required if you want an MP3 player that has good battery life. Manually indexing a FAT32 drive every time you start up the MP3 player takes up quite a bit of power.
The iPod does this a little by using iTunes to pre-index everything, but it still lags behind all of the Creative players in terms of battery life.
Nope, it's definitely not that. I purchased new headphones, Grado-SR 60's and tested two identical copies (I ripped these) of the same song on a 3g iPod and my Zen Xtra.
Being an audiophile doesn't mean blowing $1000 on your sound equipment. You can get excellent headphones for $50-$70, and the Zen Xtra is $100 cheaper than the iPod.
It does. There's something called a sound-to-noise ratio, if you've heard of it. Curiously enough, Apple has not released those specificiations. Shitty electronics introduce noise. Unfortunately, Apple decided to spend more money designing the click wheel than designing the electronics, so the iPod suffers from one of the worse sound-to-noise ratios out there. When I listen to the same song on my friend's iPod and compare it to my Nomad Xtra, I can tell the difference. Most people wouldn't care, but I'm something of a budding audiophile, so I'm steering clear of the iPod for awhile.
i don't think it's a style-statement either, people are just sick of dealing with buggy virus-laden software and bad design. it doesn't help that MS are everything bad about big business in this country as well. Interestingly enough, the iPod is on the negative end of the spectrum when it comes to sound quality. Anyone who actually *cares* about the sound of their music does not buy an iPod. When iPods stop becoming trendy (like iMacs used to be), only people who really *need* to store 40GB of music will purchase it. And anyone who has that much music should be looking for sound quality. I stick with my heavy and cheap Zen Xtra simply because it's sound quality is leaps and bounds better than the iPod's.
And when your hard drive crashes or your iPod battery dies, you'll be up shit creek.
CD storage is much more stable than hard-drive storage. That's quite a big problem. I'm not sure, as I've never used iTMS to purchase music, but what happens if your hard drive fails? Do you lose all of the music you paid for?