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hexumjunkie
hexumjunkie Posts: 191
edited November 2005 in Electronics
worth buying? my cd player took a crap...i was gonna go with the 60 gig model
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
    If you need to take your music mobile, I love 'em. I wouldn't rate the SQ on the same level with a decent CDP though.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    I'm seriously considering the 60gb model for my car and road trips. I don't think, however, that it'd ever take the place of a CDP.
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • hexumjunkie
    hexumjunkie Posts: 191
    edited November 2005
    the cdp i was reffering to was my portable discman i take with me to run.....do u think they will upgrade the ipod again soon...i know the new one plays video......
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
    Check with Okie about this thread. He has a buddy that has one NIB (if he still has it.) And, I think an iPod is a lot more useful than a Walkman CDP.
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  • hexumjunkie
    hexumjunkie Posts: 191
    edited November 2005
    bought the new 60 gig ipod video
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    Sweet. What bitrate and format are you going to rip your songs to?
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
    In Use
    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
    [Car Audio]
    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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  • JcM
    JcM Posts: 37
    edited November 2005
    The Ipods are sweet, no doubt. But if you want higher sound quality, I would consider something from creative. The Zen Vision goes for 399.99US or less. The creative products generally have a better signal to noise ratio for their headphone jacks. Also the headphones will make a big difference in SQ, a good pair of earbuds like the sennheiser MX500 would do nicely.

    Another note on the creative, it isn't as sleek as the ipod, but it does have a 640x480 screen and cf card slot.
    My HT/Music System:
    LSi 15s, LSi 9s, LSiC, HSU VTF-3 MK2, H/K AVR 635, Pioneer 588,Monster MPA5150 250wpc @4ohms, Monster HTS5100 SS, Monster cable throughout
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    How much built-in memory?
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
    In Use
    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
    [Car Audio]
    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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  • JcM
    JcM Posts: 37
    edited November 2005
    ooops sorry!

    30gb
    My HT/Music System:
    LSi 15s, LSi 9s, LSiC, HSU VTF-3 MK2, H/K AVR 635, Pioneer 588,Monster MPA5150 250wpc @4ohms, Monster HTS5100 SS, Monster cable throughout
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited November 2005
    I listened to the bose docking station for the ipod today. It sounds really good.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited November 2005
    I have a Creative Zen 40GB model that I've had for a year or so and I like everything about it other than the size. I've considered getting the Ipod because of the smaller size, but I've heard a few negatives about them:

    1. Batteries are not changeable by you. If your battery craps out, you HAVE to send it to Apple to replace for a fee.

    2. Won't play WMA files. Don't know if you have many of those, but the fact that it won't sucks **** IMO.

    3. Class action suit on their battery issues. Don't remember the specifics, but it had something to do with the above mentioned problem and them intentionally selling them with sub-par batteries......
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • Holydoc
    Holydoc Posts: 1,048
    edited November 2005
    I currently own the 60gb Video Ipod. Bought it recently and so far it has traveled with me to both Washington D.C. and Denver, Colorado. During the trips I throughly enjoyed the video screens.

    Mine currently has the entire first season of Lost, Lethal Weapon 1, LW2, LW3, and LW4 on it, Young Guns 1 and YG2, and over 1800 songs. I am only using up 11gp of the space available. Truly amazing.

    The battery life is advertised around 20hours. This may be true for purely music listening with the bright color screen off but for video watching, it is more around 4.5 hours.

    I agree that there are many more mpeg players that are smaller, but for my purposes (lots of trips), this is much more compact than a DVD player and allows me to carry it anywhere.

    The big price I have found on this item will be doubled in accessories. Currently I have a docking station that broadcasts in FM in my car, apple docking station with remote hooked up to my HT for watching movies and listening to my music (LOST is much better on my HT screen when possible), docking station with speakers (i.e. some old computer speakers I had) hooked up at the office.

    The reasons I bought this particular one is that I wanted to be able to watch my DVDs in a compact fashion, have enough room for ALL my CD's, and be able to get the accessories I needed (Ipod accessories are staggering in number). I am very pleased with mine.
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  • deceiver
    deceiver Posts: 23
    edited November 2005
    Apple did have a battery issue. It cost $99 to replace the battery after a few years but you can get it replaced for about $50 now as I understand it.

    As for WMA files. Everything can be converted but I have a lot of mp3's but I love the Apple format. When I do an mp3 and a CD I can really notice a big big difference in audio quality especially if you play the same song as an mp3 then a CD. The apple format seems like CD quality. Dunno if it is but it seem as though it is. That's why it was developed. I even have a shuffle that I like too.

    It seems so funny plugging my shuffle into my system. A stick of gum sized player with music coming out of my SDA2's

    Anyway, I don't think Apple's done yet. Steve Jobs is one of those that comes at you out of left field. Wonder what's next?
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