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| What has been your experience with the Monster Turbine Pro Copper? Because if you haven't heard them, I have to say then that you are probably sorely mistaken. I'm no expert, but I know good sound. And for the $249 (shipped) I bought the Coppers for, I don't feel like I've been taken to the cleaners by any means. It's the most impressive sound I've heard apart from very, high-end speakers from local shops. |
"Local" stores don't exactly sell high end speakers. They sell speakers that are designed to sound good to the masses, with heavy boomy bass and shrill highs.
As far as Monster products go, one only needs to read this
Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger - Audio - Gizmodo to see the quality of their products. Monster products at any price are ripoffs.
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| Also, the touch is not the player to turn to for top-notch sound quality. That would be the Nationite S:Flo2 with the line-out and the excellent DACs from the unit itself. |
Says who? The iPod touch is pretty well regarded around here.
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| Also, I am writing off the 8gb iPod Touch as you either haven't been listening to what I've been posting, or you're ignoring the fact that 8gb is too small or me. My camera's memory card is bigger at 16gb, so 8gb is just ridiculous unless you're running 128 bitrates with no pictures and like two apps (little stretched, but you should get my point). I want to run the highest quality I can find the songs at or what I already have which is WMP lossless which I will convert to FLAC/ALAC. |
If you're using WMA Lossless, that means you're ripping with Windows Media Player. That means that you really don't care about quality as much as you claim you do. And if you're using headphones built by a company that charges premium prices for speaker wire that doesn't sound any better than coat hangers, you're not going to hear the difference between 128Kbps and lossless audio to begin with.
Many double blind listening tests over at hydrogen audio show that there truly is no audible difference in most situations between modern lossy codecs and lossless anyway.
I use XLD in Snow Leopard, which uses Core Audio to encode true VBR AAC files at "127" quality, which produces AAC files with an average bitrate of 320Kbps. I can't hear the difference on my headphones that are made by companies actually known for audio quality, like Audio Technica and Grado.
I have a 16GB iPod touch. Thats enough for 557 songs at said audio quality, a movie, 4 43 minute TV shows, quite a few large games, several hundred pictures, all while still having more than 1GB free.
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So, let me know what earphones sounds better at $83? And, I will still have the problem of finding the player... wait, I'm getting the S:Flo2, that's right...  |
Theres plenty of IEMs in that price range that sound better. And considering these are a Monster product, I would bet good money that Apple's IEMs sound better and cost less.
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| Forgive my sarcastic tone, but next time before telling someone to take something back that they've fully researched, consider many things first, such as: |
Did that person fully research the fact that Monster products have been equaled by coat hangers?
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| 4. Leaving fanboy-bias at the door (I assure you Monster Turbines are better than Bose). |
I wouldn't go that far. Even Bose doesn't mark products up as bad as Monster does. And Bose has never had one of their overpriced products equaled by coat hangers.
Bose products might be overpriced, but they don't charge $100 for something that should only cost $2, like Monster HDMI cables.
