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post #16 of 28
12/22/09 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by hardRAWKR View Post
.....I tend to lean towards "they suck" because I don't have an amp or anything to use.
Get yourself a FiiO E5 for £20 and a LOD for about £20 and amp your ipod using its docking port and you will get a SQ improvement. Promise!
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post #17 of 28
12/26/09 at 3:33am
Yea I keep the EQ on Hip Hop mostly but change it to acoustic sometimes if I'm listening to something and want the little treble boost. IMO the EQ sucks and they should let me make a custom one.
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post #18 of 28
3/14/10 at 1:47am
Those of you who are using iPod included EQ settings without distortion (you'd tell us if you had distortion, right?),... what are you doing? Just about all the "boost" EQ settings are crap, and result in audible and annoying distortion.

I've determined that the IPod classic (2009) and Nano (3G) that I have both exhibit distortion at the same points in the same songs, using headphone out or Line-out. Quite disappointing for a company that pats itself on the back for producing "superior product."
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post #19 of 28
3/14/10 at 7:10am
I've run all my my tracks through aacgain (album gain, not track gain) to reduce the gain to 89 dB and after that the iPod eq is useable on almost all tracks without adding distortion but I still don't use eq much.
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post #20 of 28
3/14/10 at 7:20am
iPod EQ = not worth it, IMO
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post #21 of 28
3/14/10 at 2:24pm
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post #22 of 28
3/14/10 at 2:41pm

adding reply to Prog Rock Man

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Originally Posted by Prog Rock Man View Post
Get yourself a FiiO E5 for £20 and a LOD for about £20 and amp your ipod using its docking port and you will get a SQ improvement. Promise!
I use line-out in most of my uses of my 'Pod => Car, home hi-fi, bedside hi-fi.


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Originally Posted by nc8000 View Post
I've run all my my tracks through aacgain (album gain, not track gain) to reduce the gain to 89 dB and after that the iPod eq is useable on almost all tracks without adding distortion but I still don't use eq much.
Does aacgain actually re-level the tracks (that is, analyzes the file, and then rewrites it), or simply analyze and add/revise the replay gain values (ItunNORM or RGAD) in the file's metadata?
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post #23 of 28
3/14/10 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by ChromeJob View Post
Does aacgain actually re-level the tracks (that is, analyzes the file, and then rewrites it), or simply analyze and add/revise the replay gain values (ItunNORM or RGAD) in the file's metadata?
The last I think as it is fully reversible. aacgain is a special version of mp3gain and all info is on their website.
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post #24 of 28
3/14/10 at 6:08pm
Thanks, that info helps. I've found that simply adjusting the playback replay volume leveling coefficients (the "reversible" metadata stored in every file) didn't eliminate the problem, apparently because the iPod applies the Sound Check leveling AFTER the EQ is applied to the track. So if a track has been ripped and leveled to the peak volume of the track, at some point in every track, the iPod's EQ will introduce distortion. OMFG that's clumsy.

I re-leveled a duplicate version of a track in which I'd identified reproducible distortion, with my software's recording/leveling baseline reduced from 89db to 83db -- this is the irreversible, permanent leveling adjustment -- and that seemed to reduce or eliminate some of the distortion.

When I started ripping new tracks with this software, I thought about reducing the baseline, then decided, "Hey, I'm reading all over that 89db is a reasonable baseline." If only I'd known about the iPod's goof....
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post #25 of 28
3/15/10 at 4:10pm
iPod 5.5G+Electronica EQ setting+Fiio E5+Bass boost+LOD+IE7+Opeth=SEX
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post #26 of 28
3/16/10 at 12:48am
^ What a complicated process to reach there
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post #27 of 28
3/16/10 at 9:45pm
IE7? Internet Explorer 7?

I started re-leveling some of my music to avoid the distortion, then thought, WTF am I doing? MediaMonkey does a fine job of setting replay gain coefficients, why would I change the leveling of tracks on complete albums (that aren't just songs) for the iPod's sake. I like the music pure, not changed.

(Disclosure: MM will level tracks as it syncs to a device. But the larger iPod is the new source for listening to the music everywhere, so it's the same destruction from the POV of where I'm listening.)
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post #28 of 28
3/16/10 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by ChromeJob View Post
IE7? Internet Explorer 7?
No, is one of the Sennheiser IEM series.

When I listen to my ipod I wouldn't setting the EQ cause it added distortion...

releveling the gain is a waste of time IMO.

Rockbox EQ perform better
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