I disagree entirely. I'm not an Apple fan boy, but I've actually run my own tests on iPods as early as the 3G iPod (the 30 GB hdd based one, not the phone) and

I disagree entirely. I'm not an Apple fan boy, but I've actually run my own tests on iPods as early as the 3G iPod (the 30 GB hdd based one, not the phone) and the sound quality from the electronics was excellent. The MP3s are a different story because they were selling 128 kbps files back then. But you could load full bit rate PCM audio (WAV files) on them, and they sounded just as good as any quality CD player.