Apheared
You call that an amp? THIS is an amp!
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- Jun 20, 2001
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If I hear about how cool another unit looks one more time, I might snap and kill someone. If the only thing you can say about a piece of gear is "it looks cool" then your opinion is about as useless as it is in an art gallery. (don't confuse only and best... sometimes "it looks cool" is the BEST thing you can actually say.)
Look, I quite frankly don't fsck'in care if a unit has a backlit remote, or ID3 tags, what kind of batteries is uses, what the stupid color of the thing is, or other stupid crap... this information can be got RIGHT OFF THE BOX.
We really need someone to read for us, right? c'mon. I don't care if it take 2 or 20 seconds to start up, either. Although this is more the kinds of information I DO need, information that requires actually using the damn thing.
SOUND QUALITY
I have yet to see them compared for quality, anywhere. Either a subjective human ear review or even an MX3-style spectrum analysis accuracy review... but I'd LOVE to see some MP3/CD reviews on how they actually sound.
These reviews can't be done by people that are gearwhores. By kids that want to stuff hundreds of 96k MP3s on a disc in the first place? Uh, yea, ok.
But, whatever I'll take that over what's out there now passing for a review... "it sounds incredible" - Incredible against what test control? Against a chipped cinderblock? Against a Meridian?
And when have you ever seen someone talk about how well it plays Redbook CDs? Never. It's as if, since you bought a MP3/CD, that's all it'll ever play.
So there's this gap. We're probably the only group of people that would care; this is the perfect thing for a Head-Fi review. But getting 30 units together at once is a bitch.
/rant
Look, I quite frankly don't fsck'in care if a unit has a backlit remote, or ID3 tags, what kind of batteries is uses, what the stupid color of the thing is, or other stupid crap... this information can be got RIGHT OFF THE BOX.
We really need someone to read for us, right? c'mon. I don't care if it take 2 or 20 seconds to start up, either. Although this is more the kinds of information I DO need, information that requires actually using the damn thing.
SOUND QUALITY
I have yet to see them compared for quality, anywhere. Either a subjective human ear review or even an MX3-style spectrum analysis accuracy review... but I'd LOVE to see some MP3/CD reviews on how they actually sound.
These reviews can't be done by people that are gearwhores. By kids that want to stuff hundreds of 96k MP3s on a disc in the first place? Uh, yea, ok.
And when have you ever seen someone talk about how well it plays Redbook CDs? Never. It's as if, since you bought a MP3/CD, that's all it'll ever play.
So there's this gap. We're probably the only group of people that would care; this is the perfect thing for a Head-Fi review. But getting 30 units together at once is a bitch.
/rant
