From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V6 #95 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Tuesday, April 17 2007 Volume 06 : Number 095 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:51:05 +0100 (BST) From: Stu Bird Subject: RE: seven-seas mp3 playa As a good starting point Loo, find somewhere that stocks the range of Sennheiser headphones. They do phones right through the range from 10 - 15 pounds up to 75 and beyond. A good retailer will have phones you can try out before you purchase. I know there are plenty of other makes, and some better, but these have a good selection and I've never had any probs with Sennheisers in the past. - --- looloo wrote: > mmm.. that made me think .. I have got some better > headphones somewhere that > I used to use with my cd walkman thingy ... > > .. .. might use that .. > > When I get some stuff on the damm thing > > Lol > :-) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org > [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Stu Bird > Sent: 15 April 2007 13:29 > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: Re: seven-seas mp3 playa > > Spot on Dennis. > > The other point worth mentioning is playback device. > It doesn't matter how good the input is if you're > using sub standard speakers/phones etc. Any increase > in quality could be negated. > In fact if you're only talking about sound quality > on > a personal mp3 player, I'd go as far to suggest that > the quality of the headphones is more important than > the player to a big degree. Otherwise, you are > already > making compromises so the whole thing is a > non-issue?? > > Stu > > --- Zap wrote: > > > I can notice the difference... big time. > > > > But the key to NOT noticing is stay consistent, if > > you rip in 128 stay in > > 128 > > If you have a 128 followed by a 256 you'd be more > > likely to notice. > > The source of a lot of my music varies. (some > > rip/download/itunes/etc) > > > > I use a 60gb ipod, and I can't take everything I > > want with me! > > I'm probably just a greedy bastard! :) > > > > Some people can't hear the difference in > remastered > > cd's either. > > > > I just thought that the consistency advice might > > help > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org > > [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On Behalf > > Of susan dennis > > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:59 PM > > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > > Subject: Re: seven-seas-digest V6 #89 > > > > That's very good advice, Steve G. and one to > > remember. > > > > Fortunately my hard drive device is 40gb's so file > > size and space hasn't been an issue. I have ripped > > to > > 64 kbps in the wma format for use on my flash > drive > > player since it's only 1 gb, and when you're out > and > > about or on an airplane the difference in sound > > quality is negligible. Isn't it fun to be a geek? > > LOL! > > > > Susan > > > > > > > >You'd save space and wouldn't realy notice the > > > difference at 128 kbps. > > > >Steve G. > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. 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Those earphones look really good Raj, lots of pennies though! Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raj" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:08 PM Subject: RE: seven-seas mp3 playa >3 steps I reckon:- > > 1. Work out 'ripping' the music from your CDs. Should be able to do it > using > Windows Media Player - its what I'm using at the moment. Make sure you are > happy with that side and you know where the songs are going on your hard > disk. I would go for 128kbps and make sure that the songs are being > 'labelled' via a CDDB correctly (when you put the CD into your PC, the > software will connect to an online database and try and match the CD so > that > you don't have to type all the artist, song titles etc). > > 2. Work out copying the music you have just ripped onto your player. I > think > that you might be able to do this with Windows Media Player too. That way > you don't need to worry about downloading the right software. It's not the > best bit of software but it should get you up and running. > > 3. Work out which type of headphone is best for your ears. This has taken > me > an age and lots of testing and trying different types. I would agree with > what's been said before in that these can make the real difference. I'm > about to try the following, used by some musicians on stage! > http://www.headphoneworld.com/product_details.php?item_id=264&category_name= > Shure&category_id=154&group_name=headphones > > Right back to work > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On > Behalf > Of looloo > Sent: 17 April 2007 17:49 > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: RE: seven-seas mp3 playa > > mmm.. that made me think .. I have got some better headphones somewhere > that > I used to use with my cd walkman thingy ... > > . .. might use that .. > > When I get some stuff on the damm thing > > Lol > :-) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On > Behalf > Of Stu Bird > Sent: 15 April 2007 13:29 > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: Re: seven-seas mp3 playa > > Spot on Dennis. > > The other point worth mentioning is playback device. > It doesn't matter how good the input is if you're > using sub standard speakers/phones etc. Any increase > in quality could be negated. > In fact if you're only talking about sound quality on > a personal mp3 player, I'd go as far to suggest that > the quality of the headphones is more important than > the player to a big degree. Otherwise, you are already > making compromises so the whole thing is a non-issue?? > > Stu > > --- Zap wrote: > >> I can notice the difference... big time. >> >> But the key to NOT noticing is stay consistent, if >> you rip in 128 stay in >> 128 >> If you have a 128 followed by a 256 you'd be more >> likely to notice. >> The source of a lot of my music varies. (some >> rip/download/itunes/etc) >> >> I use a 60gb ipod, and I can't take everything I >> want with me! >> I'm probably just a greedy bastard! :) >> >> Some people can't hear the difference in remastered >> cd's either. >> >> I just thought that the consistency advice might >> help >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org >> [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On Behalf >> Of susan dennis >> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:59 PM >> To: seven-seas@smoe.org >> Subject: Re: seven-seas-digest V6 #89 >> >> That's very good advice, Steve G. and one to >> remember. >> >> Fortunately my hard drive device is 40gb's so file >> size and space hasn't been an issue. I have ripped >> to >> 64 kbps in the wma format for use on my flash drive >> player since it's only 1 gb, and when you're out and >> about or on an airplane the difference in sound >> quality is negligible. 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