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Member Reviews: Apple iPod classic 160 GB Silver (7th Generation) NEWEST MODEL

Deki

Get the iPod 5.5 gen instead (or Sansa)

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By Deki

Pros: Great build quality

Cons: Cirrus audio chip, iOS, bad EQ.

i got this from a friend of mine for free becuase he had just gotten an iphone 4s (hes not an audiophile) so he gave me this. I was gratefull ofcourse and i decided to try it out instead of my sansa. the sansa wins easily, the ipod sounds meh, not very accurate and the bass is uneven/rumbly. i then traded this for an ipod 5.5 which i rockboxed later on and now i am happy.
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Fatmangolf

iPod Classic 160GB

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By Fatmangolf

Pros: Easy to use, very large capacity

Cons: Inbuilt DAC is good but compromise

Brilliant for sheer storage size but it fills up quickly if you like videos, or have a lot of music at high bitrates or lossless. It's an iPod so the interface is easy.   Sound great for trains and other mobile use, worth pairing up with decent in ears to get some isolation and reduce the sound levels for sustained listening.   For stereo/hifi or in-house use buy a dock or cable that plugs into the bottom. The internal DAC is pretty good but is a compromise that is quite reasonable in such a small device. It gives pretty decent stereo rather than hifi - this becomes more apparent when you've heard an iPod through a digital dock and DAC, like the NS-D1 or...
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jensy

Couldn't ask for any better.

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By jensy

Pros: Line out, Capacity, Rockbox (and therefore native .FLAC support), Ruler-flat frequency response, battery.

It's exactly what it says it is. I've tried some pretty incredibly expensive DAPs - Honestly, in my opinion, a lot of them just add colouration, or EQ, or look pretty. Some of them do perform well, but fall short in many areas. If you just want your music files to reproduced exactly as they were mastered, with a line-out to pipe your music into any amplification you might require.. Get this device. Pinpoint accurate, to points that are far beyond the limits of human hearing. Adds no colouration, and Rockbox has fantastic EQ and crossfeed options if you want, not to mention .FLAC playback. A lot of people will hate on this device because it is mass-produced, and loved by the...
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melikhammoud

Amazing

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By melikhammoud

Pros: 160 f***ing gigabytes!!Durable,Good Build quality

Cons: Bad EQ

Good player but the EQ isnt so good...
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McNuggetsPie

iPod Classic 160GB

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By McNuggetsPie

Pros: Good capacity,

Cons: iTunes is an absolutely horrible program, laggy interface, noisy HD, bad equaliser, can't play flac, scratched far too easily,

Battery doesn't last 36 hours like it says.
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zinornia

One Huge Problem

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By zinornia

Pros: Amazing Sound, Holds a **** load of music, Looks very cool,

Cons: Expensive, Syncing Problems

Right, so this has an incredible sound quality (with the right headphones, even better). I really love the way it looks, and I can fit thousands of my music on it. But it has a pretty huge problem that seems to be very common upon these iPods. So the problem lies with syncing, the very first time I synced, it worked, everything got on there fine. The next time however? It seemed to be working, it said syncing song blablabla out of blablabla, and then it finished. I disconnected my iPod from the USB, and turning it on I noticed that I had no music whatsoever. Every time I want to sync, I have to uninstall iTunes, and then install it again. But, I still love this thing even if it annoys...
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micrors4

Ipod Classic 160GB

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By micrors4

Pros: huge capacity, good build quality

Cons: none

I got a classic to replace my 30GB Ipod Video after it was stolen.  It has decent audio quality with a good set of IEMs but lacks the power to drive a set of larger cans.  It does have a bit of lag as others have said but is not really a big deal once you start listening to music and is unnoticeable when jumping from tracks, however there is a company that makes a kit to convert them to use a compact flash cards which would take care of any lag and can be had in capacities as large as 128GB.  The classic is extremely tough and I have had for about 4 years and it works just as well as the day I got it despite it being abused and dropped constantly.  The only other...
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Ruzhyo

Slow and noisy

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By Ruzhyo

Pros: large harddisk

Cons: Noisy HD, slow interface, hangs

Not as good as previous 80GB 5.5gen   Slow to search, loud hard disk, slow user interface, always 2seconds behind.  Hangs often.
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AceTechHD

I pod classic 7th gen review

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By AceTechHD

Pros: amazing WARM audio quality lots of space durable strong

Cons: Noisy. Hard Disk does not use flash memory it literary has a Hard Drive in it.

great device if you have an HUGE cd collection (like me) and want to take everything everywhere you go do not buy from game stop buy refurbished from apple.com there 200$ for this price its a great deal. i have heard that the ipod classic's hard drive dies after 3-4 years of usage so think twice before buying used. over all this is the best ipod you can buy i actualy bought this over the ipod touch 4 (crap). i have the ipod touch 2 but thats another story......... LONG LIVE IPOD CLASSIC 
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