Check out the Apple web site to see the new iPod Hi-Fi. It lists for $349 (or $329 for students, or $321 for Government or Raytheon employees). Carl...
Carl W Cullings
ccullings@...
Mar 2, 2006 4:01 pm
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I can't quite tell why this is cool - there are so many devices in this space already. Maybe Apple wants a piece of the peripheral pie, but at $349 it's...
Allison Sheridan
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Mar 2, 2006 4:49 pm
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Yes, I thought that it was very strange. Take an elegantly small work of art and plug it into this rather large clunky-looking device that takes up counter...
I think something that large takes away from the compactness of the iPod. I'd like to get that little JBL saucer speaker myself-its small enough to put on a...
Felino A Bautista
fbautista1@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:43 pm
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I think this thing will sink faster than the Titanic. Its not really for audiophiles. Its bigger than my Altec Lansing iPod speaker system (which has less...
Kirk D Mueller
kdmueller@...
Mar 2, 2006 7:36 pm
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... Well, they will probably sell a few. They don't have to sell as well as the iPod to make a profit. But it probably won't make much of a splash in the ...
Dennis C De Mars
ddemars@...
Mar 2, 2006 8:01 pm
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If you are an audiophile, you'd be up in arms about MP3 anyway Kirk D Mueller <kdmueller@raythe on.com> To ...
Felino A Bautista
fbautista1@...
Mar 2, 2006 8:43 pm
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... I can tell between 128 and 192 sampling but at 256 I'm starting to strain (test sound: "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine). Have you run 320 bit sampled...
My point was there are some people "with calibrated ears" that get excited about things like that. Remember the initial CD vs analog recording and the ...
Felino A Bautista
fbautista1@...
Mar 2, 2006 9:20 pm
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I have complained about Apple's hype in the past but I suspect this thing may blow some people away. This may be the box that Bose's brilliant marketing...
Michael E Ehritz
meehritz@...
Mar 2, 2006 9:29 pm
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there was a huge article in the LA Times this week about how the iPod has brought us worse sound. the article was exactly Fel's point - that when we used to...
Allison Sheridan
asheridan@...
Mar 3, 2006 4:29 am
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When you are ripping a CD into iTunes, you can rip it (encode it) with various format choices as follows (by selecting one of these choices in ...
Carl W Cullings
ccullings@...
Mar 3, 2006 6:44 am
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If you ever get a chance, suscribe to the podcast Inside Mac TV. Steve Jobs talks about it in depth. They are in order by date. That paticular one is dated...
This should go with the boom box thread. If I transfer my commercial cd into iTunes with no loss, why wouldn't I burn it with AIFF?? Or is apple lossless the...
If you rip a CD into your iTunes library with Apple Lossless format you will have the full audio quality of your CD on your hard drive. However it will take up...
Kirk D Mueller
kdmueller@...
Mar 3, 2006 5:20 pm
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Apple's boombox is roughly equivalent to a BOSE box. Mediocre hardware and lots of advertising. The iPod Hi-fi only has a Class D amplifier. No audiophile's...
Kirk D Mueller
kdmueller@...
Mar 3, 2006 5:23 pm
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Excellent note from Kirk, I add a few additional comments. ... A data point: 256kbps sampling with medium VBR gives me ~2MB/minute of song. I tend to listen to...
... Not having to encode CDs more than once is the reason I tend towards using LAME nowadays. Frankly I'm not that picky and I probably wouldn't hear any...
... I have pitched LAME to the group before, but this is the primary reason I don't use LAME any more. I find the faster my encoder is, and the smaller the...
... I'm sure VBR on is the wsy to go. AAC is definitely superior to MP3 as far as quality to file size ratio; the main reason I stick with MP3 is because of my...
I actually get the majority of my music from the iTunes Music Store, so I'm forced to use their AAC codec which sounds pretty good. I can hear the difference...
Brian Bautista
tonphanan@...
Mar 4, 2006 1:00 am
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Perhaps this would be a good demo at the next club meeting. I'd like to hear (if I could) the differences. I listen to a lot of traditional music and the...
... Excellent idea. Bring 15-30 seconds of a song or audio track encoded 2-3 different ways. Do a blind test and see if people hear the difference. I've got...
I've got a theme I really like, but the text area is just too darn narrow for my tastes - so many things don't fit right in there. I use Ocadia as my theme,...
Allison Sheridan
asheridan@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:35 am
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Is there a preference setting that will control this? I couldn't find one. Right now, the uninterruptible automatic sequence is: I download an application. It...
Good news. Problem solved. I can now run the Disk Utility/Permissions Repair without problem, after downloading iTunes 6.0.4. I am using OS X 10.3.9 on my...
ccullings@...
Mar 5, 2006 3:58 am
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... The junk mail filter in Mail has some starting rules, but it learns from what you say is junk. It has probably learned in error that something that goes...
... Well, start by unchecking the 'Open "safe" files after downloading' box in the General preference in Safari. But even this shouldn't automatically install...
