[hvu]

I still use my Classic everyday and it the only player that I can connect directly to my car head unit

 

[Bojamijams]

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Originally Posted by hvu /img/forum/go_quote.gif I still use my Classic everyday and it the only player that I can connect directly to my car head unit

Look into an imod/diymod with a proper blackgate lod... its unbeliavable how much it has upgraded my car stereo just by being a super clean, hi-fi source

 

[hvu]

I would like but mine is a 6th gen ipod

 

[Ham Sandwich]

I'm not going to give up my iPod Classic (80GB) for anything that I currently see on the market. I have zero interest in an iPod Touch. The Touch is locked to using iTunes to sync. iTunes on Windows is horrible and not something I would ever use to manage the music that gets synced to a portable, much less use it to manage my music library as a whole. The Touch is completely out of contention because of that. The Classic can be synced using many different third party tools. The Zune is also out because it is locked to using its inferior software to sync and manage a library.

A big factor for me is having proper gapless playback. The Classic does that. I honestly don't know what I would get to replace the Classic. What else is there currently on the market that does proper gapless playback of MP3 and is not a Touch or a Zune?

Maybe SanDisk will one day get gapless working. Maybe the players in development based on Google's Android will do gapless properly. Maybe one day there will be an alternative to the iPod Classic. For now it's the Classic or nothing for me.

 

[berniebennybernard]

I love my Classic because it has enough headroom for at least the next couple of years spacewise. I can't say I'm not tempted to get the Cowon S9 or the Sony X1000 series, but until there are 64GB versions of them, I won't even think about it as I like my music collection with me at all times (43GB at 320kbps) including videos as well.

 

[wrtickle]

i use a 120gb classic for car/general, a 16gb nano for skiing/biking/hiking, and an old 6gb mini with an fm modulator (pre-fcc crackdown) for when I want something to play on an FM radio. I think the sound of the classic is the best sounding straight up of these three, but the samsung player my friend just got easily beats it - the yp-s3, I think. The older 1st gen mini 6gb simply sounds horrid compared to either the new nano or the classic. The nano is nice because it can operate at very low temps (great for skiing), but the amp has trouble driving good phones straight up.

 

[Young Spade]

Yea a lot of people just moved on to the video ipods; you get more "perks" with using it such as iMod.

 

[reptillian]

are cowon PMPs better than an ipod classic 120gig 5th gen for sound?

 

[ChrisDeeson]

Its an Apple ritual to refresh theire portable products every year.

We will see new iPods this September 2009
I expect iPod Classic Unibody and iPod Touch 3.Gen with camera...

Maybe I will get me a new iPod Classic 2009 version

 

[Happy Camper]

My 160 gets daily use.

 

[mrarroyo]

I really enjoy my 160 Gb iPod Classic.

 

[Jahvetti]

Just got my iPod classic 120 GB. Sound is quite nice through the Grado HP1000/HP2 headphones. I'll get proper in-ears for this soon, but now it seems that the sound quality is really nice in this model.

I once tried the 3rd Gen iPod and was badly underwhelmed then.

 

[justhavingfun]

My iPod classic 160g is gettting used almost daily for me so it will stay with me until it dies. It is not the best sounding unit but it is not the worst either.

 

[aloksatoor]

only use it as a transport in my 335 which has a mid fi harman kardon system

 

[jojo_b2]

I have a rockboxed IMOD (complete with w/ external caps and an SR71a) to my ears it beats the my 120GB IPOD classic flat out. The bass extension and the sparkling highs is a plus not to mention I like a warm signature.

But on the go, where I need to go "Commando". I just leave my IMOD at home and go ampless for a while. The Classic to me still a good choice of portable with a large storage space. I now have 70GB of ALAC files in my library so using a 32GB Solid State player will be adding more of a headache than an upgrade right now.