I really like the Nokia N91 and think its the best music player around when it comes to audio quality. However it just has 4 Gb of space and since I ran out of space, i got myself an 80GB ipod. I liked the sound especially compared to the 5G 30GB version. However when I updated my ipod software to v1.2.1 the sound quality improved a lot and now the device sounds more like the N91 which has dynamic range compression.
Hence I speculate that the 80 GB iPod has DRC built in which was absent earlier. Any comments ?
Full Version: iPod 5.5G 80 GB has DRC ?
QUOTE (superpoincare @ Dec 19 2006, 09:18) 
Any comments ?
Sure. Your perceptions of audio quality could very well be the result of expectation bias.
With a good, neutral soundcard you could perform some ABX tests to help validate your claims. (it is actually a requirement of these forums)
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Dynamic Range Control <-- That'll be the one. Don't you just love acronyms?
But seriously, I highly doubt Apple would introduce such a feature, even more without telling everyone about this 'wonderful feature' or at least mentioning it in the release notes. They only state 'minor fixes'. I'm with evereux on this one.
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Dynamic Range Control <-- That'll be the one. Don't you just love acronyms?
But seriously, I highly doubt Apple would introduce such a feature, even more without telling everyone about this 'wonderful feature' or at least mentioning it in the release notes. They only state 'minor fixes'. I'm with evereux on this one.
A comparison of sound recordings from the two sound sources would also be quite sufficient evidence, if the differences are quantitatively obvious.
QUOTE (Maurits @ Dec 19 2006, 09:57)
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Dynamic Range Control <-- That'll be the one. Don't you just love acronyms?
But seriously, I highly doubt Apple would introduce such a feature, even more without telling everyone about this 'wonderful feature' or at least mentioning it in the release notes. They only state 'minor fixes'. I'm with evereux on this one.
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Device Research Conference
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Dynamic Range Control <-- That'll be the one. Don't you just love acronyms?
But seriously, I highly doubt Apple would introduce such a feature, even more without telling everyone about this 'wonderful feature' or at least mentioning it in the release notes. They only state 'minor fixes'. I'm with evereux on this one.
What do you mean? My iPod came with a Database Of Ribosomal Crosslinks from the Dynamics Research Corporation, based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Didn't yours? You ought to do a Documented Reference Check on yours and find out for sure.
But semi-seriously - the newer iPods do sound better- at least my 2g nano does, in side by side comparison to my 3G. Though I think it has to do with higher quality chips. To my ears is sounds like the decoder is better and the amp has more "ommph" - faster rise in power to keep up with dynamic music, rather than range compression which to my ears tends to flatten music.
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