[NAC] AUDIophile! Stereo Options?

[Lee Levitt]

Unka Bart writes:
> iPods are ridiculously inexpensive today, and what I said about once
> you try playing digital music is serious.  You'll never want to fool
> with mechanical players again.  I use a 5 year old mac laptop for
> that purpose only, they are readily available reasonably on the used/
> reconditioned market and well worth the cost.  Probably any PC laptop
> with a 2 ghz cpu would do the job too and they are also available
> dirt cheap.
>    

iPods may be ridiculously inexpensive today, but they're not all the 
same. I have an old U2 iPod, second generation? and a newish Nano, fifth 
generation.

With the same music and headphones, there is a striking difference in 
music depth between the two. The Nano sounds fine...until you listen to 
the same music on the older unit. Now I just use the Nano for radio.

One of these days I'll load some songs onto my iPhone and see how it 
sounds. I suspect that the size limitations on the Nano required some 
shortcuts. However, there's a lot packed into the iPhone too...

Lee