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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. ;-)

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" 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

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" 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 guess I am not an audiophile as the mp3's sound fine to me. ;-)

I also like the idea of not having to lug around a bunch of CD's and have
all my music at my fingertips in a credit card sized piece of hardware.

Different strokes I guess........ ;-)

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" 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 guess I am not an audiophile as the mp3's sound fine to me. ;-)

I also like the idea of not having to lug around a bunch of CD's and have
all my music at my fingertips in a credit card sized piece of hardware.

Different strokes I guess........ ;-)




Both my sons have iPods... must be a young person thing. ;-)

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JimH wrote:
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" 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 guess I am not an audiophile as the mp3's sound fine to me. ;-)

I also like the idea of not having to lug around a bunch of CD's and have
all my music at my fingertips in a credit card sized piece of hardware.

Different strokes I guess........ ;-)


Both my sons have iPods... must be a young person thing. ;-)


Depending on whether on not it makes sense I am willing to change with the
times. ;-)

Yet I still love old cars and classic boats. And nothing beats many of the
old tunes. But you can't beat new technology, especially with electronics.

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:09:10 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

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.

I don't have an Ipod but sort of understand the appeal since I've been
collecting MP3s on my PCs for more years than I can remember. It's
sort of like having an on demand juke box of all of your favorite
tunes. If you get the sampling rate high enough the quality is not
all that bad and certainly a lot better than the gear that most of us
had back in the 50s and 60s.

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:09:10 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

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.

I don't have an Ipod but sort of understand the appeal since I've been
collecting MP3s on my PCs for more years than I can remember. It's
sort of like having an on demand juke box of all of your favorite
tunes. If you get the sampling rate high enough the quality is not
all that bad and certainly a lot better than the gear that most of us
had back in the 50s and 60s.


How true,

I have been converting all of my old cassette tapes to MP3 files using
Audacity and some of the old stuff I recorded from LP to cassette has so
many pops and cracks it is hard to believe we used to listen to that crap
and think it was true "audiophile" quality.

If I save my old cassettes at 320kbps the sound quality is really great.
Yes, I am saving the old cassettes to retain my "license" for the music.
I am currently looking for a Cd player radio for my boat that has an
auxiliary input on the face plate for an MP3 player to plug in.

I do not have an Ipod but I do have a Sony Mini Disc HI MD player.
I am trying to get my wife to buy me a Creative Zen 30 Gb mp3/video player.

Fredo

Fredo

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"RCE" wrote in message
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" 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 guess I am not an audiophile as the mp3's sound fine to me. ;-)

I also like the idea of not having to lug around a bunch of CD's and have
all my music at my fingertips in a credit card sized piece of hardware.

Different strokes I guess........ ;-)


I don't consider myself an audiophile by any means. Those people are
obsessed. I can, though, hear a big difference in quality between a poor CD
recording and a good one and then the difference between a really good CD or
DVD recording and a SACD recording. Compressed mp3 files sound terrible by
comparison. Not to sound snotty, but part of the problem is the equipment
being used to play the music. "Boom boxes", most car audio systems and 500
dollar Sony 5.1 channel systems are going to produce any source material
equally lousy, so those that use them can't hear and appreciate the
difference. Nothing wrong with that of course, but there is so much more to
enjoy when listening on a decent system with time put aside and dedicated
to really listen to the performance.

So, one of the reasons I hate to see the popularity of mp3 compressed files
is that they are for convenience, not for quality. As they gain in
popularity it will become difficult and expensive to produce a conventional,
high quality CD due to the reduced market. The audiophile community is
already bemoaning the death of CDs as a media, much like LPs of years ago in
favor of the more popular Ipod type devices using compressed mp3 technology.
SACD and DVD-A recordings are becoming scarce and their production is
limited. It's too bad, because an evening of listening to good quality
recordings that gives you goosebumps may be coming to an end.

BTW - on the subject of music - I think it was Harry that recently
recommended an album entitled "Bronx Blue" by Dion. I got a copy and it's
excellent. A very different Dion, that's for sure. Also - for any
classical fans with SACD systems, check out Telarc's release of
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
It's recorded in DSD (direct stream digital) and is fabulous. It will play
on conventional CD players, but to really get the full effect of this
superb recording technique, you must have a SACD setup and an amp and
speakers that can handle a very wide dynamic range. There are 6 other
classical recordings on it plus 5 tracks dedicated to system setup.

There's a warning though ... the cannons are loud and real sounding. Prior
to listening, caulk any loose windows in your house.

RCE

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" 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?

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"RCE" wrote in message
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" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
...
...........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 guess I am not an audiophile as the mp3's sound fine to me. ;-)

I also like the idea of not having to lug around a bunch of CD's and have
all my music at my fingertips in a credit card sized piece of hardware.

Different strokes I guess........ ;-)


I don't consider myself an audiophile by any means. Those people are
obsessed. I can, though, hear a big difference in quality between a poor
CD recording and a good one and then the difference between a really good
CD or DVD recording and a SACD recording. Compressed mp3 files sound
terrible by comparison. Not to sound snotty, but part of the problem is
the equipment being used to play the music. "Boom boxes", most car audio
systems and 500 dollar Sony 5.1 channel systems are going to produce any
source material equally lousy, so those that use them can't hear and
appreciate the difference. Nothing wrong with that of course, but there is
so much more to enjoy when listening on a decent system with time put
aside and dedicated to really listen to the performance.

So, one of the reasons I hate to see the popularity of mp3 compressed
files is that they are for convenience, not for quality. As they gain in
popularity it will become difficult and expensive to produce a
conventional, high quality CD due to the reduced market. The audiophile
community is already bemoaning the death of CDs as a media, much like LPs
of years ago in favor of the more popular Ipod type devices using
compressed mp3 technology. SACD and DVD-A recordings are becoming scarce
and their production is limited. It's too bad, because an evening of
listening to good quality recordings that gives you goosebumps may be
coming to an end.

BTW - on the subject of music - I think it was Harry that recently
recommended an album entitled "Bronx Blue" by Dion. I got a copy and
it's excellent. A very different Dion, that's for sure. Also - for any
classical fans with SACD systems, check out Telarc's release of
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
It's recorded in DSD (direct stream digital) and is fabulous. It will
play on conventional CD players, but to really get the full effect of
this superb recording technique, you must have a SACD setup and an amp and
speakers that can handle a very wide dynamic range. There are 6 other
classical recordings on it plus 5 tracks dedicated to system setup.

There's a warning though ... the cannons are loud and real sounding.
Prior to listening, caulk any loose windows in your house.

RCE


I had both stapes removed from my ears when I was in my early teens due to
calcium deposits immobilizing them. They were replaced with some sort of
teflon coated devices. As I have pretty decent home audio equipment I will
chalk it up to that........although I can still hear a fair degree of highs
and lows.

BTW: I picked up a set of Sennheiser HD280 Pro head phones (I got tired of
waiting for the ones John had recommended as all suppliers had his pick on
backorder). (
http://www.sennheiserusa.com/newsite...transid=004974 ) I
cannot believe the sound quality and comfort.....and I got them for under
$80 including shipping. If you like to listen to music without disturbing
others I would recommend these.