heatofamatch
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+1. I've had a dozen years of trial and error on my back.
Let me tell you a little about a day in my life in 2003. I remember spending $400-500 buying a bunch of items so that I can
1. record TV shows on my VCR (I'd forgotten why but it couldn't be done straight from my TV output)
2. let an app transcode this show (since I don't have Sony's $400? memory stick recorder)
3. Split the shows across 2, perhaps 3 memory sticks
4. watch on my Sony Clie.
I did all of that exactly once, just once - it was an episode of Waking the Dead. Anyway, my point is this: if I wanted to watch this crossdressing or w/e guy apparently drowning his family in a boat, now in 2013, while I'm on the move, it's clearly a lot easier and a lot cheaper. Regardless of who the enabling parties are, we've come to a point where the greater external environment has conspired to make it feasible and convenient to do so. I don't think we're quite at that spot yet where it's easy breezy to completely switch over to the mobile phone for our portable audio rigs. Every year we get closer but manufacturers are content to generally withhold their breakthrough, unleash a little every year and upsell their achievement by 1500%.
Ideally until we get to that aforementioned point, there's no reason to make a move. Yes, you can be happy earlier than that, whether by strapping the PHA-1 (great form factor for a murder weapon BTW) to your phone or going insanely high-end. But the "might as well" factor, as well as the law of diminishing returns, both loom big and hard, and that's worth considering to every single one of you who's reading this. Doing everything in your power is not necessarily the best policy, even if its drawbacks are few and inconsequential.
+1. I've had a dozen years of trial and error on my back.
Let me tell you a little about a day in my life in 2003. I remember spending $400-500 buying a bunch of items so that I can
1. record TV shows on my VCR (I'd forgotten why but it couldn't be done straight from my TV output)
2. let an app transcode this show (since I don't have Sony's $400? memory stick recorder)
3. Split the shows across 2, perhaps 3 memory sticks
4. watch on my Sony Clie.
I did all of that exactly once, just once - it was an episode of Waking the Dead. Anyway, my point is this: if I wanted to watch this crossdressing or w/e guy apparently drowning his family in a boat, now in 2013, while I'm on the move, it's clearly a lot easier and a lot cheaper. Regardless of who the enabling parties are, we've come to a point where the greater external environment has conspired to make it feasible and convenient to do so. I don't think we're quite at that spot yet where it's easy breezy to completely switch over to the mobile phone for our portable audio rigs. Every year we get closer but manufacturers are content to generally withhold their breakthrough, unleash a little every year and upsell their achievement by 1500%.
Ideally until we get to that aforementioned point, there's no reason to make a move. Yes, you can be happy earlier than that, whether by strapping the PHA-1 (great form factor for a murder weapon BTW) to your phone or going insanely high-end. But the "might as well" factor, as well as the law of diminishing returns, both loom big and hard, and that's worth considering to every single one of you who's reading this. Doing everything in your power is not necessarily the best policy, even if its drawbacks are few and inconsequential.
