n00b questions about ipods and linux (fedora 6 and 7)

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 21:14 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> using a professional headset to listen to compressed/lossy music is
> sort of absurd to begin with isn't it?

Yes and no.

Merely what I have, some comfy headphones, and some robust headphones
(those Beyers can have a thirty year life span, even with hamfisted
users).  I work in television production, it can involve wearing
headphones a lot, and I hate crappy headphones, so I go for the better
than average ones all the time.  I'm not about to switch over and wear
crappy headphones just because I'm listening to an ogg instead of my
original CDs.

There's no point in *deliberately* using crap gear, just because you
think it's redundant.  Every poor link in the chain makes things
*worse*.

I mentioned the point of listening through good aparatus to point out
that I do have the gear to notice whether the ogg/MP3 can sound good.

TV and recorded video isn't very good, much of it looks bad (in one way
or another) on sets bigger than 34 cm screens.  In a lot of cases, on
the larger screen, you just get a bigger blur, not a higher resolution
image.  But that doesn't stop us watching on large screen sets.

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