"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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JohnH wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:41:22 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

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RCE wrote:
" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
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...........a 30gb Ipod is in my future and not the 4 gb Nano.

I have been importing songs from my CD's to my Itunes and now have
over
6GB of music (1,462 songs), with several more CD's left to import.

BTW: Itunes is a nice program and very versatile. If anyone has it
I
have a link to the optimal equalizer settings. Let me know if you
want
it. ;-)


I was always an electronic gizmo and gadget nut, but for some reason
the
whole appeal of Ipods and the like is lost on me. Why would I
possibly want
thousands of poor quality, super compressed music files stored in one
of
these? I guess they have their purpose, whatever it is, as they seem
to be
very popular.

RCE
I'm currently eye-balling one of the Bose systems that stores several
hundred hours of music from CD's. I understand that you load in the CD,
ask the unit to memorize it, and a few minutes later all the data is
stored in the processing unit. The CD can then be stored away in case
it ever needs to be reloaded, or taken to play in the car or on the
boat. I don't know whether Bose is storing the music in an mp3 format,
or not, but the sound quality they are getting from a woofer and two
speakers probably 3 X 6 " is absolutely amazing. My wife kicked my old
stereo system out of the living room years ago, as she couldn't stand
four "big box" speakers and all the wires, etc. For about $1700, you
cannow get a system that sounds better (to my ears) than what $4000
used to buy- back when $4000 was real money.

I know that Bose also offers 12-volt units- has anybody tried one of
these on a boat and are they as astonishing as the home systems?

I put the Bose 3.1 system in the Navigator. It's the one that's
supposed to mimic a 5.1 system and has the big sub. Not to start a Bose
war here, but --- big mistake. Bose just doesn't hack it anymore for
me. Muddy and just blah sounding. I used to like Bose, but it was back
in the series 901 days.

RCE


I have to agree. I bought the Bose 'Lifestyle' system with five
mini-speakers and a woofer. I'd rather have gotten something else. Too
'bassy' (or muddy) for me also. Of course, it doesn't help that my high
frequency hearing is somewhat gone!


I've said it before and I'll say it again: there was NEVER any way those
bitty BOSE 901 speakers could cleanly reproduce music with a wide tonal
range. My father-in-law has that BOSE setup in his music room, and he has
some pretty fancy electronic components, and, in my opinion, it sounds
like...crap.

Sound reproduction requires REAL speakers. I like Klipschorns* and
full-height electrostatics with a good subwooder (which is what I have
these days).

* Real Klipschorns, not the bookshelf crap sold to hook up to computers.


IMHO Dahlquist used to make a really sweet e-stat speaker setup.

Fredo