mathewlu
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Dear All,
Several people were talking about this combo and since I just got my iPod today after an interminable wait, I thought I'd share first impressions. The '6s are getting more comfortable for me, so I must be putting them in better. I've only been listening with a Sony PCDP so far, without any kind of amp.
1) The included iPod ear buds suck. They're just too big to wear comfortably. As I was wearing them walking around the sound kept changing; at first I thought something was wrong with the iPod, but when I put in the Ety's everything was fine.
2) The iPod itself, as everyone under the sun has said, is beautiful. It just feel so nice in your hand. The packaging is one of the neatest things; it's as nice as the iPod itself. As for the sound, I DON'T hear the infamous whine, but I've got to say I'm not listening for it if you know what I mean. I don't want to hear it, because I'm sure if I do it'll ruin it for me. I would say that a concern about the whine shouldn't stop anyone from getting one, esp since Apple seems to have promised a fix (the supposition is that it's a software problem since there is no whine with uncompressed AIFF files).
3) The Ety's driven by the iPod: very nice. The Ety's certainly will reveal poor encoding (a lot of which I hadn't noticed before), but the iPod seems to drive them reasonably well. I have to have the volume bar up around 70% for reasonably loud playback. There was some concern that the Ety's would be too revealing. I guess that depends on what you will be satisfied with. If you're very picky the problem will be with the MP3s not the iPod, so you probably wouldn't be interested in any MP3 device.
In summary:
The iPod and the ER-6, just as I'd hope, are perfect together. Having this many songs in my pocket with the kind of isolation the '6s provide is just wonderful for on-the-go listening. I highly recommend the combo to anybody else addicted to MP3s.
BTW, the first beta of the Win XP software for using the iPod with a PC should be out in about a week.
Best,
--Mathew
Several people were talking about this combo and since I just got my iPod today after an interminable wait, I thought I'd share first impressions. The '6s are getting more comfortable for me, so I must be putting them in better. I've only been listening with a Sony PCDP so far, without any kind of amp.
1) The included iPod ear buds suck. They're just too big to wear comfortably. As I was wearing them walking around the sound kept changing; at first I thought something was wrong with the iPod, but when I put in the Ety's everything was fine.
2) The iPod itself, as everyone under the sun has said, is beautiful. It just feel so nice in your hand. The packaging is one of the neatest things; it's as nice as the iPod itself. As for the sound, I DON'T hear the infamous whine, but I've got to say I'm not listening for it if you know what I mean. I don't want to hear it, because I'm sure if I do it'll ruin it for me. I would say that a concern about the whine shouldn't stop anyone from getting one, esp since Apple seems to have promised a fix (the supposition is that it's a software problem since there is no whine with uncompressed AIFF files).
3) The Ety's driven by the iPod: very nice. The Ety's certainly will reveal poor encoding (a lot of which I hadn't noticed before), but the iPod seems to drive them reasonably well. I have to have the volume bar up around 70% for reasonably loud playback. There was some concern that the Ety's would be too revealing. I guess that depends on what you will be satisfied with. If you're very picky the problem will be with the MP3s not the iPod, so you probably wouldn't be interested in any MP3 device.
In summary:
The iPod and the ER-6, just as I'd hope, are perfect together. Having this many songs in my pocket with the kind of isolation the '6s provide is just wonderful for on-the-go listening. I highly recommend the combo to anybody else addicted to MP3s.
BTW, the first beta of the Win XP software for using the iPod with a PC should be out in about a week.
Best,
--Mathew
