New iMod for the iPod 5G: A Red Wine Audio/ALO Collaboration - Page 5

In a word, there, there. No one who possess both lobes would suggest that open questions like yours are untoward. Furthernow, there's no point in discouraging you from expressing honest interest. As your chiropodist, I suggest that you drink more fluids so as not to fall prey to that pernicious pathology known as Internet Forum Paranoia Disorder. (On a side note: Kevin Trudeau claims "Swedish doctors" have been curing IFPD with calcium supplements.)

The problem, Mr. Just-Say-Yes-to-Purposeful-Copulation, is Pacino-esque closing questions beginning with phrases like "WHEN will the fool who buys this ever realize . . ." or "How DARE Red Wine Audio/ALO charge [invented sum] for [unverified option] as part of their [completely separate] iMod when there are [hypothetical number] of [unnamed companies] willing to [expletive denoting barnyard joy] for [unprecedented use of secondary muscle group]!?!?"

Even polite posts like the following tend to visit the world of E.C. Tubb:

"LOL" indeed, since your question can't be serious. Yes, dinky drive capacity and dinkier DAC resolution will continue to improve over a nebulous period of time. No, the history of the iPod doesn't dictate that a new iPod with a larger drive and new features will use a better DAC. Yes, the 6G or some later iteration might be offered with a 120GB HD, which is of course the point of most journalists' speculation concerning the Samsung announcement in the first place.

However, obsessing over the possibility of a brave new DAC by "freak chance," or the cost and practicality of the implementation of a hard drive that doesn't even exist in consumer terms, the installation of which is merely being considered as a possible perk, has very little to do with the announced 5G iMod or the concerns of audiophiles who are considering it. You yourself are interested in practical sonic improvement, are you not? If so, then let's agree to forgo the Head-fi equivalent of doomsday tabloid telly.

Less constructive responses are another nostril entirely.

No previous iMod buyer appears to have made a purchasing decision based on the secondary installation of batteries or anything else. Thus, when confused "WHAT'S-ALL-THIS-I-HEAR-ABOUT-SOLDIERS-PARADING-AROUND-ON-VETERINARIAN'S-DAY!?" humegaphones complain about the fictitious and unlikely extra cost of possibly installing an unavailable HD, it results in the unfriendly derailment of this thread via a vast flopping red herring.

Tittering shut-ins are advised to get their Three Card Monty on in the latest I'm-Not-Affected-by-Marketing-Which-Is-Why-I-Hate-the-iPod thread. Whinemeal, the rest of us will continue talking about the 5G iMod, which is real, about to be released, designed to improve audio quality and, in my limited experience, also happens to sound stupendous.