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It's a complete crock. Most MP3 players today, and iPods for their entire history, offer pretty much perfect audio reproduction (modulo lossiness in MP3). Plent
by podperson 13y ago
It's a complete crock. Most MP3 players today, and iPods for their entire history, offer pretty much perfect audio reproduction (modulo lossiness in MP3). Plenty of folks don't like the earbuds and, to be sure, the iPod was not technically superior to its rivals on first release -- the thing that made the iPod successful was end-to-end near seamless experience including purchasing of music, redownloading lost content, ripping music, managing library, syncing to devices, and so forth, which Apple's rivals repeatedly and ineptly failed to reproduce (Microsoft came close, with Zune, but it was too little too late). And yes, iTunes on Windows is a slug, etc., but rival products were always in some crucial respect worse.
- ladzoppelin 13y ago"much perfect audio reproduction" Yea any digital signal has to pass through things called "DAC's" that obviously come with different quality and price. DAC's along with the power supply/design greatly effect the sound of digital audio.
- faddotio 13y agoNot true. iPods were regarded as having crummy DACs until the Shuffle, which was a paradox in that it had incredibly limited features but also very good audio quality.
- ladzoppelin 13y agoI said DAC's+Power+Design = "audio quality" and I have no idea how good or bad the ipod sounds. My point was that saying all digital devices sound exactly the same is false.
- podperson 13y agoYou're right -- I stand corrected. A bit more research shows that some iPods have had weak bass output and other issues but -- again -- no more so than rivals, and most iPods have pretty much flawless output (again, modulo the quality of the encoding and the output device). More to the point -- making a blanket claim about iPods having always been inferior reveals the writer to be an anti-Apple troll.