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Originally Posted by Manic!
Apple killed the MP3 player market. Before the Ipod there were number of MP3 player makers now it's hard to find an alternative to the crappy Ipod. and yes the Ipod is a crappy MP3 player compared to other MP3 payers.
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I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one. I used to have an iRiver MP3 player, and it was and still is much better sounding than my newer iPod and iPhone4. The iPhone4 is better than my iPod 80GB though, but still not as good as the iRiver. For portable music, the MiniDisc still rules in my book, unfortunately it never took off in N. America. Hell, I bet my old tape cassettes played on my Sony Walkman sound better than on my iPhone.
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Originally Posted by gilly
^ If the ipod is a crappy player, why is it "hard" to find an alternative to an Ipod? lol
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The sound quality of iPods is just adequate, I don't know why people waste their money on high end ear/headphones for iPods - There's just too much of the sound spectrum (proper terminology?) missing from MP3 files to really get anything out of them.
I think it's the user interface and the seamless-ness of iTunes that just makes it a "better" user experience. Most consumers have never listened to a high end audio system to know that the music they are listening to on an iPod is not very good.