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Originally Posted by nicfit
iriver is a damn good brand.
lower prices and slightly better sound reproduction than ipods.
anyway,as was said in a thread on the old forum,mp3s are alla about portability.
there's no way you can hear music with an hi-fi and adeguate silence travelling on a train, so why don't go with portable mp3 players?
you can't travel or walk around bringing your record player -amplifier-6feet tall speakers.
AS was already said,just make sure you buy good headphones (sennheiser make good ones,as someone else pointed out),rip at high bitrates (do'h) and use equalization properly.
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there are lots of good headphones on the markets these days which are noise cancellation phones, these have tiny microphones on the outside of the phones and the signal is put into the phones out of phase so any outside noise is cancelled in the actual headphone, this does not account however for the size of the phone and outside noise that gets directly to your ear.
don't use equalisation because all onboard equalisation on every portable player is garbage. the studio engineer and the mastering engineer have worked their asses off to make the albums you buy sound good, don't eq them with inferior software eq's in portable players. just get good phones.