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#16
Not to be a **** but any compressed version of music sounds like.... you know what. Even the 44.1 Khz resolution of a normal audio CD still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to depth and warmth. SACDs are better, I could be very happy with a SACD player in a car. I wonder if the LS-460 Mark Levinson system reproduces SACDs.
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Not to be a **** but any compressed version of music sounds like.... you know what. Even the 44.1 Khz resolution of a normal audio CD still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to depth and warmth. SACDs are better, I could be very happy with a SACD player in a car. I wonder if the LS-460 Mark Levinson system reproduces SACDs.
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You always want to avoid taking the iPod signal directly from the headphone out; this adds a very cheap amplifier into the signal path. Several companies make dock connectors that allow you to power the iPod AND use the higher quality "line out" signal from the bottom of the iPod.
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Not to be a **** but any compressed version of music sounds like.... you know what. Even the 44.1 Khz resolution of a normal audio CD still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to depth and warmth. SACDs are better, I could be very happy with a SACD player in a car. I wonder if the LS-460 Mark Levinson system reproduces SACDs.
For those of us with $xxx,xxx theaters, you can tell the difference, but then you'd also know now to play measly mp3's.
For the rest of us listening in the background, 320kbps mp3's might even be overkill!
I just know one thing, almost all music is ripped in 320kbps, because who knows if dad one day decides to become a home-audio nut!
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I can tell a much bigger difference when listening on our 2 channel music setup or even a home theater.
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There is a noticible difference between mp3's and CD's, which is why I haven't bothered with mp3's in years.
#23
He's talking about having the output from the ipod go from the bottom, not the headphone amp.
Actually if the headphone jack is good quality, I'd think iPod could theoretically be the best. An iPod with rockbox firmware can playback lossless flac. is that not as good as dvd / cd?
Actually if the headphone jack is good quality, I'd think iPod could theoretically be the best. An iPod with rockbox firmware can playback lossless flac. is that not as good as dvd / cd?
At best, quality of sound through Ipod connected to ML system would be 3rd after CD and DVD-A, which DVD-A being apsolutly the best option which makes Ipod look like cheap taiwainese boombox.
In most cases, HDD-256kbs will sound a lot better than anything on Ipod due to aux out and the fact that most songs people have are not better than 256kbs.
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If your iPod has the rockbox firmware, you can use .flac which is lossless meaning it'll sound the same as whatever source you're ripping it from UNLESS the connector (inside the cneter box) is somehow downgrading the source.
#25
A few months ago I custom ordered UE-10 Pro in-ear monitors from Ultimate Ears. Listening to 320Kbps compressed audio sounds like AM radio compared to CDs and SACDs. When you pop a DVD audio with 96Khz resolution it feels like the band and/or orchestra is inside your head and your neck veins shake.
So no mp3 crap for me.
So no mp3 crap for me.
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