I don't think that you would find that the CD player sounded better than ipod + amp.

Posted by orpheus (A) on January 30, 2006 at 11:37:16

In Reply to: Sounds like a lot of trouble and expense... posted by String Section on January 29, 2006 at 22:24:28:

Part of the appeal of the ipod is that you're not just carrying a player, but the music as well. The trouble to me is carrying around a CD player and easily damaged CD's. To have the amount of music available in a 20gb ipod, even at lossless compression rates, available on CD's you would be carrying around 60 CD's with you. So in terms of portability, the ipod wins, even when paired with an amplifier.

Although I haven't made the comparison, and it is going to be headphone, player, and recording specific, I doubt that a CD properly ripped to apple lossless, played through a line out into a good headphone amplifier would sound worse than the portable CD player. You have stirred some interest though, so I will probably out of curiousity do a comparison. I have a well respected panasonic portable CD player that isn't made anymore and was supposed to be one of the better sounding portables in it's time.

-Aaron

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I agree that the difference you heard was probably related to the quality of the headphone amp and/or ipod setup. - orpheus 10:33:40 01/28/06 (3)

Sounds like a lot of trouble and expense... - String Section 22:24:28 01/29/06 (2)

I don't think that you would find that the CD player sounded better than ipod + amp. - orpheus 11:37:16 01/30/06 (1)

agreed - nt - Replevin 12:15:15 01/30/06 (0)

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I don't think that you would find that the CD player sounded better than ipod + amp. - orpheus 11:37:16 01/30/06 (1)

agreed - nt - Replevin 12:15:15 01/30/06 (0)

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