PX100 Questions

[Dash]

I was listening to my PX100's on my Ipod encoded at 192 AAC. I hear a crackling in the background on certain tracks, particular in congested passages where guitar is prominent. I was wondering if it was a encoding or was it lack of juice and the PX100's clipping out? Any advice would be great. When I was ripping CD's last nite, I was performing other apps...Could that cause the encoding to take a hit? P4 with 768 ram. Itunes is a resource hawg. Thanks in Advance
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[Brent Hutto]

With the caveat that I'm brand new to portable audio and headphones, I'd suspect the source and not the headphones. I encoded a bunch of CDs this weekend (256kpbs or 320kpbs AAC depending on the quality of the CD) using iTunes and I've already come across several tracks that break up or crackle. Like you, I suspect it was the fact that I was web browsing off and on during the ripping process that caused problems.

I have the PX200 and auditioned the PX100 and they aren't going to break up or crackle at any volume that I'd want to subject my ears to. Unlikely to be the problem IMVHO.

 

[binkgle]

sometimes i get crackly audio when listening to songs while the ipod is charging................... did you rip the cds with itunes? i'd suggest ripping with eac, then either using lame vbr --aps for encoding, or use itunesencode with eac to get itunes to make aac from the wav files (works really nicely)

 

[Raymate]

Do you guy use the EQ on the iPod, I gave tried many tracks at various bitrates with my 100's and 200's and not had any problems with crackling. Try the same track that crackles with Apple Lossless

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