The point is that the old Ipod headphone preamps didnt't have enough juice to power most headphones properly. What is the hardest frequency to reproduce? The bass. So, even with headphones and the eq turned up, the bass didn't sound as full and punchy as it should have.
This was probably the worst flaw sound quality wise. The AAC or MP3 encoding at 128K are virtually indistinguishable from CDs for most listeners, but most listeners can hear the lack of bass. Its like something is missing.
I agree with Dave...this is just a side-show controversy that distracts the public from the real economic crimes that big business lobby groups actually push into law, such as tax breaks for those poor millionaires out there.
Sending letters won't help -- these decisions are made by elites in the entertainment industry and their lobby groups. Since money is at stake, our cute little opinion doesn't mean sh-t. They can hear us, but they don't care. We are not dealing with a democratic process, but a coalition of powerful people deciding how we live in the privacy of our own homes! The only way to fight this, in the long term, is to pay for our own lobby group, which is not going to happen on my salary.
I'd also guess that the industry has decided on their new distribution model already. They are going to make money with pay per view. They are fighting to protect pay per view, where they own and control the media.
Let's be realistic...if someone creates technology to help them with their pay-per-view, and builds in backdoors so lower quality personal copies can be made, we will have ourselves a compromise that might just be workable.
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The point is that the old Ipod headphone preamps didnt't have enough juice to power most headphones properly. What is the hardest frequency to reproduce? The bass. So, even with headphones and the eq turned up, the bass didn't sound as full and punchy as it should have. This was probably the worst flaw sound quality wise. The AAC or MP3 encoding at 128K are virtually indistinguishable from CDs for most listeners, but most listeners can hear the lack of bass. Its like something is missing.
I agree with Dave...this is just a side-show controversy that distracts the public from the real economic crimes that big business lobby groups actually push into law, such as tax breaks for those poor millionaires out there.
Yeah, there is no NEAR operator, but check out this site which hacks Google into doing them: http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi
Sending letters won't help -- these decisions are made by elites in the entertainment industry and their lobby groups. Since money is at stake, our cute little opinion doesn't mean sh-t. They can hear us, but they don't care. We are not dealing with a democratic process, but a coalition of powerful people deciding how we live in the privacy of our own homes! The only way to fight this, in the long term, is to pay for our own lobby group, which is not going to happen on my salary.
I'd also guess that the industry has decided on their new distribution model already. They are going to make money with pay per view. They are fighting to protect pay per view, where they own and control the media.
Let's be realistic...if someone creates technology to help them with their pay-per-view, and builds in backdoors so lower quality personal copies can be made, we will have ourselves a compromise that might just be workable.