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In Reply to: Classical iPod Users Turning To Quality Hi Fi posted by BLUTO on May 13, 2007 at 06:16:15:
IMO, a good iPod + good buds (e.g. Shure E2C) with uncompressed files can sound better, make much better music, than most folks have ever heard (present company excepted, of course). Friends who listen to my iPod and E2Cs are uniformly blown away.All music sounds better on a better system, but IMO fine sound is particularly friendly to classical. Classical instruments and orchestras have been perfected over hundreds of years and can produce an amazing range of sounds and emotions. It can be appreciated on an old radio, but if new people are to get the point, be grabbed emotionally and intellectually, you need great performances rendered on a great system. The iPod makes this reasonably possible for a few hundred dollars.
If this develops into a larger trend, it may lead to more music recorded and sold in (relatively) uncompressed formats. Only when the average Joe and Susie can hear, appreciate, and is willing to pay for good source material will good sound be safe. Most people won't spend $1000 on a system and there are too few audiophiles; thus the iPod (or some other route to "way better than Bose" under $500) is our only hope.
Of course, botique CDs and SACDs will always be available, but these folks will always have fairly limited catalogs.
Peter
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- iPod + good buds = hope that good sound ain't dead yet! - PSP 11:11:24 05/14/07 (0)
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