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MP3 player question
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| high elmo |
in terms of sound quality, does it matter which mp3 player you have? ie: bass, etc..
or is it just in the headphones?
if it matters, which players are best? |
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| Wildfir3 |
| I think it could matter a bit, but not really that much. It's indeed more important what kind of headphones ur using |
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| DjJade |
well for djing usually no mp3 player will ever sound good enough on a big system.
if youre wanting to know about portables... this is the wrong forum for it but i am going to answer it anyway:
look at the signal to noise ratio. i have a zen, most creative products sound very good. iriver is good too. if you want quality, dont get an ipod. i have heard them and the sound quality is considerably inferior in sound to most other mp3 players.
yes headphones do make a difference... and theres a nice sticky here about headphones. and various other threaeds if you use the search. [i have a modded sennheiser hd-280 for djing, and etymotic er-4 for listening] |
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| Dizc |
| The biggest factor for the quality of an mp3 player is the power output of the headphone jack. The more power, the better the sound can be represented. The more power you have, the better it can move the speakers in your headphones. It's very true, the headphones make a big difference, but if you don't have the power to drive them, your sound quality will be garbage. You can have $200 headphones, but they generally require lots of power to make them move the way they were designed, whereas, cheap $10 ear buds sound much better because you have a better power:size ratio. |
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| borron |
Thumps up to my Creative Jukebox 3. It works great, the sound is excellent and it drives my sennheiser HD25 as good as my mixer.
It is also the best way to record your sets. It can encode any quality of mp3 or wma on-the-fly and 44 and 48 KHz wav. You can split the recording by tracks. It has a 5 band equalizer and you can hook it up to a 4.1 system. It can hold 2 batteries (the second one is optional) which have a lenght of 22 hours playing (11 hour each battery). If you brave enough, you can change the hard disk to something with more capacity (of course, warranty goes down the drain).
The only problem - it's very big and heavy for an mp3 player, about the size of a regular discman, weighting 400 grams w/ 2 batteries. I only bought it over the Zen because of the recording capabilities, but if you don't need them, then a Zen will be fine. |
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| high elmo |
cool guys! thanks for the replies.
I think you're right about the power issue, i guess it's very important to have something good enough to drive the headphones!
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| DjJade |
| i think creative players are amongst the strongest to my knowledge. most good heaphones really require an amp to shine. check out the head-fi forums. they have everything you ever wnat to know about anything having to do with headphones and portibles...amps etc. |
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