Domojin
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Hey gang. First post here. I've been doing a lot of reading and researching and these forums have been a great help.
I'm looking at finally making the leap into some quality portable audio gear and would love some opinions.
I currently have an 8gb 2nd gen Nano and a Droid mobile phone as my portable sources. I've had a few earphones of quality over the years. Nothing more than 75$ though. I'm currently using Sony IEMs with thin rubber tips (not sure of the exact model number but they cost about 60$ when I got them a few years back) They seal well and sound pretty good to me, a bit light on the bass end but they're currently the best earphones I've owned up to this point. I listen mostly to progressive rock and heavy metal music, but a fairly wide variety of stuff does find it's way into my collection.
I have about 300-350 US$ to spend on upgrading. After a lot of research on this and other websites I'm temped to dump most all of it into Shure SE530s, and a Fii0 E5. I know that the E5 isn't much in the way of an amp, but for what I have to spend the SE530s, from what I've read in multiple reviews, seem to be the best IEMs in that price range by fairly wide margin. I'm more than open to suggestion here, hence my posting. I've never owned any of this stuff before, and if there's a better combination of gear I can get for my $$ I'd love to hear about it.
Another thing I could really use some help with is encoding. Looking at my current MP3 collection most of it is encoded @ 128 bit rate. Is there a way to convert that up, or do I need to basically delete my library and re-encode everything from CD all over again? Admittedly I'm fairly inexperienced at this and usually just jam my CD into the computer and let ITunes take it from there. Should I be using something other than ITunes? I'm not sure what file formats and encryptions rates would work best with both my Droid and Nano.
Any help, advice or direction is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the great forum!
I'm looking at finally making the leap into some quality portable audio gear and would love some opinions.
I currently have an 8gb 2nd gen Nano and a Droid mobile phone as my portable sources. I've had a few earphones of quality over the years. Nothing more than 75$ though. I'm currently using Sony IEMs with thin rubber tips (not sure of the exact model number but they cost about 60$ when I got them a few years back) They seal well and sound pretty good to me, a bit light on the bass end but they're currently the best earphones I've owned up to this point. I listen mostly to progressive rock and heavy metal music, but a fairly wide variety of stuff does find it's way into my collection.
I have about 300-350 US$ to spend on upgrading. After a lot of research on this and other websites I'm temped to dump most all of it into Shure SE530s, and a Fii0 E5. I know that the E5 isn't much in the way of an amp, but for what I have to spend the SE530s, from what I've read in multiple reviews, seem to be the best IEMs in that price range by fairly wide margin. I'm more than open to suggestion here, hence my posting. I've never owned any of this stuff before, and if there's a better combination of gear I can get for my $$ I'd love to hear about it.
Another thing I could really use some help with is encoding. Looking at my current MP3 collection most of it is encoded @ 128 bit rate. Is there a way to convert that up, or do I need to basically delete my library and re-encode everything from CD all over again? Admittedly I'm fairly inexperienced at this and usually just jam my CD into the computer and let ITunes take it from there. Should I be using something other than ITunes? I'm not sure what file formats and encryptions rates would work best with both my Droid and Nano.
Any help, advice or direction is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the great forum!