[Trombone-l] iPod as audio recorder [Was: Advice onMinidiskRecorders]

[Simon Bailey]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:16:16PM -0700, Chris Tune wrote:
> http://webpodge.com/2006/10/03/top-10-headphones-reviewed/

interesting link, thx.

> As far as I'm concerned the headphone world consists of AKG (I've had three 
> K240s over the last twelve years or so), Sennheiser and for the buds, Shure 
> and UEars (a new company in Irvine, CA).

i bought some sennheiser cx 300 in-ear buds a few weeks back, and they're great. 
same gripe as the guy on the link above has with the shure in ear buds -- the 
cables transmit sound if you tap them. great for cycling to work or in the bus, 
because outside sound gets almost totally cut.

> recording to the good ole'  WAV format as well as compressed, such as mp3, 
> or OGG, or somesuch.  Compressed is usually fine, as long as you can control 

good to see that the ogg-vorbis format is finally starting to get some
publicity. :) it's been my encoding of choice for the past few years -- mainly
because it's free (as in free speech) unlike to mp3. i also personally think
that the sound quality is a lot better. mp3 seems to lose clarity in very
delicate string and woodwind sections. that's my personal subjective listening
experience however, others may disagree.

the only other gripe in regard to .ogg's that i have though is that most
personal digital players don't support them. they support all these horrible
proprietary formats but ignore the open ones. :) the only way to get ipods to
play them is to put linux on the ipod. which then has timing issues, so no ipod
for me. (irivers can play oggs i think, but they're too big, i wanted something
ipod-nano-ish size, i managed to find a samsung 2gb thingy for a decent price
which will play oggs, so i'm happy for now).

trombone content: trombones sound better in .ogg as well; currently listening to
bruckner's 2 aequali for 3 trombones, libera me and mess in e minor. wow.
nothing beats trombones for beautiful sound. :)

regards,
sb
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