I've been running a Samsung Droid Charge (an LTE enabled variant of the original Galaxy S) with Voodoo Sound and it has the lowest noise floor and highest maximum output of any portable device I've ever owned (basically every single iPod variant, and a Zune.)  I used to love my 5th Gen iPod w/...

Quote: Originally Posted by OverlordXenu Ummm...What are those things? Head-fadjectives. The only way to reply is to counter with more head-fadjectives. Ex - The iPod Classic trounces the iMod 4G in bass control and tightness, spatial separation and instrument dynamics...

I don't know why everybody says that these graphs don't show you how an encoder sounds.... If there's no waveforms high up vertically in the graph, it means that the encoder is cutting off the highest frequencies (some cutoff soft and some hard). If you can't hear past 16kHz or your...

In theory, DAP/Optical/DAC/Amp has the potential to reproduce audio in the highest fidelity out of the three choices you've listed. With the iMod/Amp, you're stuck with the DAC in the iPod whereas buying an external DAC can yield a ridiculous high SNR, ridiculously low THD, and a perfectly...

Thanks and great work! Don't listen to those naysayers who don't understand what these graphs depict! It's funny that some people think that even though a codec's spectrograph depicts gaps and distortion, it can somehow sound better than a codec whose spectrograph more closely resembles the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Altoids What, exactly, are the technical limits of MP3? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#Design_limitations

Apple's AAC encoder, 192kbps/VBR I personally think AAC's the wave of the future, considering it's theoretically the true successor to MP3 (designed by a lot of the same people... just later.) The LAME MP3 encoder is pretty nice, but it's still limited by the technical limitations of MP3...

If the Rat Shack CD player advertises bit-perfect playback, then they would in fact sound the same. If they didn't, I guess there could be a volume modification... but I'm not too worried about that. But you did beat me to the punch for stating audiophiles are gullible dopes. (I got my flame...

Transports are entirely mathematical. A CD-Player is not any sort of phenomenon but a calculated science. If it's outputting a bit-perfect digital signal, there sould be absolutely no difference between one digital signal and another's. CD-ROM manufacturers don't advertise that their hardware...

I went and bought a fancy $100 TI-89 calculator. I punched in 8x8. I got 64. I went back to the free solar powered calculator I got from some random real estate goody bag. It was probably worth $4.50. I punched in 8x8. I still got 64. Mr. Mink 70. Computers are not as error prone as you may...

W800... the cellphone I assume? Dude, most people here aren't even satisfied with iPods, let alone cellphones. They'll probably recommend an old iRiver with optical output --> dedicated DAC --> some fancy tube amp. And don't even think about using anything less than lossless because a small...

Quote: Originally Posted by zeppelin2 As per his sig, it's a 5th Gen. My 5th gen ipod doesn't seem to update the gapless info either (even though it plays as such in iTunes). I removed all my music and readded the 'gapless' versions. Did you update your iPod to the 1.2 firmware...

I used to have a friend that swore that when he cleaned his PSX version of Final Fantasy VII, the characters looked less blocky because the "bumps" were clearer or something along those lines. Maybe I should bring him to this forum. He'd fit in perfectly.

Quote: Originally Posted by akwok Am I the only one who can't hear the purported changes in jitter between different computer transports? It all sounds the same to me. It's also funny to see how according to different people, lower jitter changes different aspects of the sound, not...

Dammit, Wodgy beat me to the punch. My roommate at UCLA's a Comp Sci/EE major... and he laughs whenever I tell him about these threads.